This is an honest look at one man’s attempts to find both peace and justice in a thoroughly unjust world. "Wrestling in the Daylight" is an unusual work with an idiosyncratic approach—a written documentation of Brant Rosen’s turn... Read More

"Body Horror" is an incredible, touching, intelligent collection that looks beyond what’s comfortable to examine what is true. By turns tender, insightful, and sharp as a scalpel, Anne Elizabeth Moore’s essays in Body Horror... Read More

This rich book on Roots captures the complexity of its reception and its enduring place in popular culture. In ten chapters, the essayists in "Reconsidering Roots" posit that, although Roots has been a topic of debate since its release,... Read More

This book masterfully blends military history with politics and media studies. Tom Basile’s "Tough Sell" is an ode to the many men and women who worked for the Coalition Provisional Authority during the early days of the Iraq War. The... Read More

Events cascade at a relentless pace in this perfectly taut psychological thriller. In Tracy Buchanan’s "No Turning Back", a woman defends herself from a young, crazed assailant; when he is killed, her ordered small-town life becomes... Read More

Milena shines necessary light on an industry that is more pervasive, and powerful, than most would like to consider. Jorge Zepeda Patterson’s Milena, or the Most Beautiful Femur in the World is a breathtakingly savage thriller set... Read More

With the aura of a cozy mystery, this sommelier-led novel is enticing and engaging. In Nadine Nettmann’s "Uncorking a Lie", a young sommelier turned detective becomes embroiled in a deadly game after discovering that an expensively... Read More

"Berlin Red" is a true literary thriller that highlights all the intrepid strategy in espionage and the fight for survival. "Berlin Red", Sam Eastland’s seventh installment of the popular Inspector Pekkala series, is a smartly plotted,... Read More