Grieving lovers navigate mental illness and political upheaval in Rahad Abir’s novel "Bengal Hound". East Pakistan in the late 1960s is an impoverished place marked by unrest, but life continues on, for better and for worse. Mere days... Read More

Economic history has tended to repeat itself—but there may be a solution, according to the intricate, informative book "Markets in Chaos". Brendan Hughes’s reflective economics text "Markets in Chaos" invites investors to learn from... Read More

Covering a UN deployment that involved disarming warring factions, nation-building, and helping to facilitate elections, "The Horses of Sierra Leone" is a sobering memoir. In her memoir "The Horses of Sierra Leone", Leeland Shelly Nash... Read More

"Brain On!" is an encouraging self-help text filled with methods for cultivating emotional intelligence in the office. Deb Smolensky’s "Brain On!" is a self-help guide that emphasizes personal growth and individual mental wellness in... Read More

Wes Nisker’s memoir "The Big Bang, the Buddha, and the Baby Boom" covers his search for spiritual meaning during a period of great economic, technological, and social change. Born during World War II and brought up as the only Jewish... Read More

In the novel "The Miseducation of Obi Ifeanyi", a Nigerian American couple confronts the underlying tensions in their marriage. In Chinedu Achebe’s winding domestic novel "The Miseducation of Obi Ifeanyi", a man’s wife and his... Read More

Max Humphrey’s "Lodge" is a photographic guide to ten historic buildings within the west and southwest of the US’s National Park Service. After the establishment of the first national parks in the late nineteenth century, travelers... Read More

"Moraline" is a gentle, empowering novel in which young advocates find their work enhanced by moments of magic. In Cintia Alfonso Fior’s appealing novel "Moraline", a fidgety girl who loves to run finds her place and purpose at a new... Read More