In her strong book about a real-life courtroom tragedy, true-crime author Mardi Link interprets legal jargon for a wide audience and makes the story fascinating. True crime and courtroom drama meet in Wicked Takes the Stand: A Tale of... Read More

Collectively, these essays work to reignite love for the nation’s wilds while also reminding readers of their awesome and terrible power. "Outdoors in the Southwest", a collection of essays and interviews from historian and professor... Read More

Rebellious Hettie brings spirited character to this historical novel of wildcatting and bootlegging. With "Magnolia City", Alderson debuts with an intensely descriptive novel set in 1928, the pre-Depression oil-boom years, as Houston,... Read More

Edgy and edifying, this intriguing novel balances the religious with the risqué. From California State University professor Craig R. Smith comes an imaginative novel, "Herod from Hell", which places Herod the Great in the position of a... Read More

Roach’s work will shed new light on the Salem witch trials by showing how the accusers may have truly believed they were bewitched. In her well-researched Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the... Read More

Illustrations and A-Z chapters aim to get young adults interested in the harsh realities of China. With cartoonish drawings and speculation about a closed society, "Big Bad China" is a great resource—albeit an overly emotional... Read More

A Bible Study Investigation into Our Relationship to God and into “the Time of the End“, by Trevor Pope, is a focused look at one view in the wide arena of end-times prophecy and thought. In the book, Pope shares his thoughts on the... Read More

The Catholic Church gets so much bad press these days that this epistolary biography of Cardinal Mindszenty, a Hungarian priest who dedicated his life to advocating for religious freedom behind the Iron Curtain, will come as a welcome... Read More