Rodney Stotts’s heartfelt memoir reveals how he became a master falconer. To expand his drug business, Stotts needed his own apartment. But he had to prove he could afford rent first. He began working with the Earth Conservation Corps... Read More

Ordinary people are haunted by loss and grief in Shahriar Mandanipour’s short story collection "Seasons of Purgatory". In these stories, death is a constant companion. For some, it has already come and gone, leaving survivors to cope... Read More

Journeys from Here to There is an enlightening social science text that asserts that welcoming immigrants is necessary to America’s progress and survival. Immigration attorney Susan J. Cohen’s humane social science book "Journeys... Read More

In Sébastien Japrisot’s taut mystery novel "The Sleeping Car Murders", a woman’s corpse is found on a train that just arrived in Paris. The train originated in Marseilles, and the woman appears to have been strangled in the sleeping... Read More

For the four years of its existence and in the months following it, Donald Trump’s presidential administration provided myriad examples of breaking American law and general norms of government. As Allan Lichtman demonstrates in his... Read More

"The Last One" is a mesmerizing, semiautobiographical novel about the meanings of identity, family, and sexuality. The story of eponymous character Fatima Daas is slight, but there’s depth and substance in her struggles to find paths... Read More

David R. Roth’s captivating novel "The Femme Fatale Hypothesis" involves a curious friendship between Kelsey and Rose Geddes and their next-door neighbor, June. The Geddeses are an elderly couple dealing with Rose’s terminal cancer,... Read More

The crucial World War II Battle of Leyte Gulf is detailed through the eyes of American sailors and pilots in The Last Stand of the Tin Can Soldiers. The Battle of Leyte Gulf, and within it the Battle of Samar, is not as famous as other... Read More