This riveting true-crime exploration highlights the relationship between race and the law in the post-Civil War South. Karen L. Cox’s Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South translates historical facts into an... Read More

Oney’s articles offer intimate portraits of fascinating, heroic men. Across forty years, Steve Oney has written numerous articles for national magazines concentrating on the challenges that men face. Consider this book, carefully... Read More

Covering the science and history of climate change, "Protecting the Planet" represents an ambitious attempt to cover the entire context of climate change, from origins to possible solutions. Unfortunately, it is only partially... Read More

"Unwanted" is a sober and carefully researched narrative of murder and justice in the late nineteenth century. Andrew Young’s "Unwanted" resurrects a Gilded Age murder mystery, immersing audiences into the mental and emotional world of... Read More

In this captivating historical novel, full of superstition, suspense, and secrets, a woman comes to a North Carolina town and rocks the precarious equilibrium of the relationships there. From the start, "Over the Plain Houses" is filled... Read More

A visionary novel of moral reckoning, destined to take its place among modern war classics. Afghanistan itself becomes an indelible character in Brandon Caro’s hard-hitting war novel, "Old Silk Road". It is an ancient land, eternally... Read More

Sardonic and painfully entertaining, "Nonprofit" is gallows humor for the public sector. In tackling the bitter subject of nonprofit fraud, Matt Burriesci’s "Nonprofit" is so agonizingly funny that do-gooders of all stripes will grind... Read More

Crafted to blur the boundaries between what’s real and what’s not, this fascinating tale depicts a fanciful past that’s both weird and enchanting. Traveling to a foreign land can be both enchanting and overwhelming, as is Steve... Read More