Allen Ginsberg’s intimate and passionate "South American Journals" ranges from sublime and spiritual to earthy and grungy and reflects the angst of his life and times. Ginsberg hooked up with other Beat Generation writers while... Read More

"Hippie Chick" is a tender memoir that chronicles a bold search for love that is ultimately found within. Ilene English’s painful, prefeminist memoir "Hippie Chick" moves from her naïve impulsivity during the freewheeling sixties and... Read More

Nancy E. Davis’s "The Chinese Lady" applies historical detective work to document the life of Afong Moy, who took an unusual journey through nineteenth-century America. It reveals much about the young United States, its view of other... Read More

Grant Price’s "By the Feet of Men" takes place in a post-apocalyptic future. Part adventure tale, part dystopian novel, it’s an immersive story about survival and how the notion of the future keeps people going. Climate change and... Read More

What do Madonna, George Michael, and Lady Gaga have in common with Petrarch? A lot, according to Melissa E. Sanchez’s new book, "Queer Faith". The book unpacks the secular language that Western culture uses to talk about love and race... Read More

Contemplating the depth of the soul by considering elements of nature, theology professor Belden Lane begins his enthralling "The Great Conversation" by explaining his twenty-year love affair with “Grandfather,” a hundred-year-old... Read More

"The Proactive Health Solution" takes a person-centered approach to diet, exercise, and holistic health. Nadia Yacoub Cavallini’s guidebook "The Proactive Health Solution" suggests a lasting and holistic approach to health through... Read More

Its characters trample through lands on the brink of madness in search of something certain; its images are violent, heartbreaking, and starkly real. Morris Collins’s "Horse Latitudes" is a historically attuned novel for a world that... Read More