Hiring managers would do well to follow Weyerhauser’s authoritative counsel. Kurt Weyerhauser’s "Hire Your Dream Team" forwards a convincing and comprehensive approach to hiring the right talent. A low unemployment rate often means... Read More

"Tales of the Astonishing Black Spark" is a wickedly funny adventure told from the perspective of a comic-book-savvy black superhero. It succeeds both as a superhero story in novel form and as an entertaining, funhouse-mirror view of... Read More

“Some risks are worth taking, but it’s better not to ask why,” writes David Shulman. “Then there are the risks that you have to take if you want to feel human.” This reflection comes after another long day of resistance in... Read More

Illusions and ghosts populate Sara Gallardo’s stories, collected here in "Land of Smoke". These are tales in which a dream come true—a cozy retirement among the flowers; the ability to fly—is apt to quickly become nightmarish, and... Read More

Barbara Melosh’s "Loving and Leaving a Church" is a deeply personal memoir that provides fresh insight into the struggles of small mainline congregations in America. Both a clergyperson and a historian, Melosh writes with skillful... Read More

A professor in the religious studies department at the University of Virginia, Kevin Hart’s Christianity is ever present even as he writes passionately of young love, titillation, and “thin girls who taste of Beaujolais at night.”... Read More

Both bright and brittle, The Story of Miss Berta London is an intriguing and entertaining trip through one woman’s reinvention. With an interesting and modern premise, Jihan Latimer’s "The Tale of Miss Berta London" is a story of... Read More

Lieutenant Colonel Kate Germano led female marine recruits to succeed in a system that expected little from women and kept them out of infantry roles. In "Fight Like a Girl", she recounts bringing up performance scores and morale at the... Read More