Jerome Charyn’s bracing biographical novel is about Maria Callas’s transformation from a New York daughter of Greek immigrants to a world-famous opera soprano. When she’s a teenager, Maria’s ambitious mother brings her to Athens.... Read More

With its men off to war, a Highland community is protected by witches in Shona Kinsella’s propulsive historical novel "Daughters of Nicnevin", set during the time of the Jacobite rising. Mairead, a lonely witch, wanders Scotland alone... Read More

Áine Cain and Kevin Greenlee’s true crime book delves into the Delphi murders, documenting the case from the day of the crime all the way to the conviction of the killer. When teenagers Libby and Abby went missing on local trails,... Read More

In the interbellum, US officials sent about one million people of Mexican descent—citizens or otherwise—across the southern border in a coordinated program. In "Banished Citizens", Marla A. Ramírez tells this painful story through... Read More

Sizzling with restrained eroticism, H. S. Cross’s historical novel "Amanda" is about two lovers driven apart by secrets and brought together again by irrepressible need. In the interbellum period, Marion, who by day worked under a... Read More

Laws regarding classroom science curricula are examined in Alexander and Harold Gouzoules’s deft history book The Hundred Years’ Trial. The Gouzouleses’ scientific and legal expertise informs this fascinating history, which moves... Read More

The life, career, and activism of actor George Takei are chronicled in the stirring graphic novel "It Rhymes with Takei". Takei gave up studying architecture when he heard the siren call of the stage. Despite the limited roles available... Read More

An orphaned girl with supernatural powers uncovers a troubling family history and evidence of betrayals in the fantasy novel "The Witch-Hunt", the first in a series. Neil R. McLaughlin’s series-opening fantasy novel "The Witch-Hunt" is... Read More