Mixing a teenage romance with political and environmental commentary, The Year Without a Summer is an inspiring novel. In Arlene Mark’s novel The Year Without a Summer, two teenagers cultivate their empathy and global awareness while... Read More

Pondering the impact of climate change on the national parks, "Requiem for America’s Best Idea" is a nature guide and travelogue with a powerful message of environmental advocacy. Featuring five of the largest Western parks—Olympic,... Read More

In Ashleigh Bell Pedersen’s captivating coming-of-age novel "The Crocodile Bride", eleven-year-old Sunshine lives with her father, Billy, in the bayou town of Fingertip, in a yellow house that tilts, “exhausted, to one side.” Her... Read More

A healing adventure becomes a chance for new romance in the healing novel "Somewhere Above It All". In Holli Fawcett Clayton’s evocative romance novel "Somewhere Above It All" a grieving woman seeks to scale a treacherous mountain,... Read More

"Take a Left at Tomorrow" is a compelling love story that recreates landmark events of the late 1960s. As the novel opens, Joey, a bright, pretty teenager growing up near the Minnesota Iron Range, juggles her high school classes with... Read More

Don and Petie Kladstrup’s "Champagne Charlie" is the enjoyable biography of Charles Heidsieck, a dazzling, daring, and adroit French champagne merchant who risked his life and limbs to sell his esteemed bubbly to Americans in the... Read More

While false claims of voter fraud have become common in recent years, the 2018 congressional midterm for North Carolina’s Ninth District featured the rare case of actual fraud, with illegal ballots from rural Bladen County causing the... Read More

Being Human Is Hard is a healing self-help book that equips people to choose to forgive. Christy Heacock’s narrative self-book Being Human Is Hard conveys the power and possibility of forgiveness. Forgiveness, according to the book, is... Read More