In the middle of the last century, before Vietnam, Iraq, immigration woes, global warming denial, and other spoilers damaged the brand, the United States enjoyed rock star status for leading the Allies to victory in WWII, defending the... Read More

Amy Weinland Daughters’s novel "You Cannot Mess This Up" explores an irresistible time travel premise: What if you could go back in time and meet your family as an outsider and hear what the adults in your life had to say about you as... Read More

In "Dakota in Exile", Linda M. Clemmons tells the little-known story of the Dakota from their perspective: how their men were executed and imprisoned while their women and children were sent to a distant, barren land. Clemmons examines... Read More

"Making Eden" is a sweeping history of plant evolution that demonstrates both the development and fragility of plant life. Natural sciences professor David Beerling’s book is a comprehensive evolutionary history that traces the birth... Read More

In "Future Sacred", environmental educator, futurist, and writer Julie J. Morley takes down the “survival of the fittest” paradigm to reveal a natural world based on cooperation, symbiosis, and complexity—a self-regulating,... Read More

Heidi James’s "So the Doves" triumphs with just the right blend of psychological suspense and lilting prose that practically dances off the page. Spanning over two decades, the slim but mighty novel tells the story of Marcus, a... Read More

Valerie Woerner’s self-help book "Grumpy Mom Takes a Holiday" has moms at its heart and God at its center. Modern mothers are too often pressured to do everything perfectly, amplified by Instagram’s many examples of people who are... Read More

Descriptions play on the senses in this exciting science fiction thriller that focuses on AI. A. Calans’s science fiction novel "Project XS" questions humanity’s ability to handle artificially intelligent machines. Matt and Kayla... Read More