Efforts to increase voter turnout in Black communities are at the heart of the revealing political science text "Party at the Ballot Box". In 2020, COVID-19 and police brutality against Black communities necessitated Baltimore,... Read More

Pamelia Chia’s celebratory cookbook "PlantAsia" draws on vivid childhood memories of hawker stall food and extensive travels to proffer encyclopedic knowledge of Asian culinary techniques and ingredients. Eschewing the environmental... Read More

Linda Segtnan’s haunting true crime book delves into the 1948 murder of a Swedish girl and the intense psychological effects Segtnan experienced while researching the crime. In 2018, Segtnan was working on a project at the National... Read More

"The Inspired Retirement" is a holistic self-help guide that recommends creative and fulfilling ways for making each postcareer day meaningful, joyful, and productive. Professor Nathalie Martin’s mindful self-help guide Inspired... Read More

In reflective prose, Tariq Mehmood’s kaleidoscopic novel "Sing to the Western Wind" unravels the life of man driven to the brink by political and religious violence. Saleem is at the end of his life. He has bombs strapped to his chest... Read More

An aloof agricultural scientist balances their personal principles with the requirements of their career, life, and love in Claire Barner’s engaging novel "Moonrising". In the late twenty-first century, famine and drought threaten... Read More

In 2022, journalist Dom Phillips was murdered while reporting on environmental crimes in Brazil’s Javari Valley, killed by some of the same criminals destroying the Amazon rainforest. His friends and colleagues completed his... Read More

In Eden’s Clock, Norman Lock’s concluding stand-alone volume of The American Novels series, a Civil War veteran and clocksmith travels to San Francisco, arriving on the evening before the city’s massive 1906 earthquake. In 1905,... Read More