Based on Dac Trung Tran’s childhood in Vietnam, this picture book illustrates the invisible hand of a mother’s love guiding her son’s steps. A child wakes early; his mother has already left for work, leaving him a note listing what... Read More

The history of the Kurdish people’s struggle for self-government is at the center of Nicole F. Watts’s riveting book "Republic of Dreams". The modern countries of the Middle East were created when the Age of Empires came to an end... Read More

In "The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told", Keith Richotte Jr. examines the legal history behind the federal government’s assertions of authority over almost six hundred tribal nations. This book exposes the fascinating, paradoxical way... Read More

Women’s friendships are at the center of Amy DeBellis’s coming-of-age novel "All Our Tomorrows". In a postpandemic near future, three women of different backgrounds struggle to make their ways in New York City. Janet, a Korean... Read More

Comedy stirs between like-minded writers and meddlesome matchmakers in John J. Jacobson’s romance novel "Cupid on the Loose", about Californians who bond over Shakespeare. Billy is an aspiring novelist with a penchant for old-fashioned... Read More

"Bookstore Romance" collects diverse photographs and stories of couples who celebrated their engagements or weddings in a bookstore. The snappy chapters open by introducing the couples in terms of how they met, why the bookstores they... Read More

Megan Rogers’s engrossing novel "The Heart Is a Star" dissects life, love, and truth. Layla, a troubled mother, wife, and anesthesiologist, navigates a turbulent life and an uncomfortable past. When her distant mother calls with... Read More

Steeped in original archival research, Isaac Stanley-Becker’s "Europe without Borders" explores the complicated history of the campaign for a united, borderless Europe. After the horrors of World War II, leaders from Western Europe... Read More