"America Invaded" is a fun jumping-off point for discussions about history. "America Invaded" by Christopher Kelly and Stuart Laycock offers an intriguing tour of past conflicts waged on American soil, from the Atlantic to the Pacific.... Read More

"Henry and the Hidden Treasure" uses a playful and entertaining story to teach kids about sibling rivalry and possessive behavior. "Henry and the Hidden Treasure" is B. C. R. Fegan’s charming picture book about a young boy’s... Read More

"Cashed Out" is an enjoyable thriller that evokes pain, sorrow, and sympathetic feelings toward even its unlikable characters. Cash in on this thrilling read from Michael H. Rubin. Set in the sweltering heat of the Louisiana bayou,... Read More

Collins shows that change, even of the smallest kind, comes at the cost of great dedication and even greater love. It took four decades of lawyers, litigation, LGBTQ activists, and patient, persistent engagement to legalize gay marriage.... Read More

Quietly masterful, the novel contains rich details of nineteenth-century Russian life. Sofia Khvoshchinskaya’s "City Folk and Country Folk" is a slyly captivating, contemporaneous novel of mid-nineteenth-century Russia. Khvoshchinskaya... Read More

"Flora of Middle-Earth" resides at the intersection of the mundane and the fantastical. An ambitious labor of love, Flora of Middle-Earth: Plants of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Legendarium, by Walter S. Judd and Graham A. Judd, marries science... Read More

This entertaining study reveals a public fascinated with the unverifiable. Even for those who don’t believe the hokum, aliens and UFOs are a source of fascination—explored through speculative fiction, sci-fi flicks, and television... Read More

Ley was a pioneer of both scientific exploration and widespread media entertainment; this biography gives the visionary his due. Willy Ley: Prophet of the Space Age, by Jared S. Buss, is a dynamic biography of a remarkable scientific... Read More