The constant presence of the past adds intrigue to this part travelogue, part detective novel, set in Italy. Posing as an American buyer of antiquities to help the Italian police bust a ring of thieves, translator Rick Montoya finds... Read More

The Kids’ Outdoor Adventure Book, by Stacy Tornio and Ken Keffer, aims to get kids outside and cultivate in them a love for nature. With simple instruction and a seemingly intuitive understanding of young readers, Kids’ Outdoor... Read More

Young children instinctively use their imagination to learn about life. Unfortunately, that important ability can get pushed aside as they grow to adulthood. William Carpenter and Diana Soto have written an intelligent and well-organized... Read More

Dramatized accounts from the Bible attract faithful practitioners dedicated to greater understanding of religious documents through interpretation, and this work of Carol Cook is another fictional innovation based on popular stories from... Read More

Need to survive the apocalypse? There’s a plant for that. If natural disaster strikes and grocery store shelves go bare, what could an apartment dweller find to eat? The thought of “apocalypse insurance” drove Rebecca Lerner to... Read More

Corporate capitalism has gone horribly wrong, author says. What we need is a citizen takeover. The cultural, social, and political movement begun by the American Revolution is as alive as ever. Gar Alperovitz, Lionel R. Bauman Professor... Read More

Characters grope for meaning amid emotional and moral crises in complex, atmospheric stories. The lives of boys and men are fraught with imperfection and shortcomings in our intensely competitive culture. For the mostly male, mainly... Read More

Myukis, or Voldoya, as he is familiarly known, was a Russian-American artist of some talent who might have been famous had he really lived. This imaginative, sometimes funny, sometimes frustrating novel was inspired by Daniel Marcus’s... Read More