An admirable amateur genealogical survey, "Pages and Leaflets of North Oxfordshire" illustrates the historical record with personal details. Angela Fortnum’s "Pages and Leaflets of North Oxfordshire" is a personal family and religious... Read More

Tender, pithy, and steeped in respect, Never Sit if You Can Dance is a light-filled biographical work. Jo Giese’s radiant tribute, "Never Sit If You Can Dance: Lessons from My Mother, Babe", gathers brief essays that illustrate a... Read More

Through it is a personal story, "Examined Lives" testifies to flagrant injustices within psychological care. Roberta Reb Allen’s family biography "Examined Lives" focuses on mental illness and the wanton use of lobotomies in the... Read More

Richly textured, "Man of the Trees" paints an intimate portrait of environmentalist Richard St. Barbe Baker. Baker was a self-admitted “tree hugger” who, as early as the 1920s, pursued sustainable forestry and started Men of the... Read More

"Little Dancer Aged Fourteen" illuminates a slice of art history with ravishing acuity. Camille Laurens examines Marie van Goethem, the young model and dancer of Degas fame, in a tribute that melds research with quotations, intelligent... Read More

Michael A. Messner’s "Guys Like Me" profiles a veteran from each of the five most recent American wars, documenting the experiences that led them to activism and advocacy for peace. Messner, the Vietnam-protesting grandson of a World... Read More

The personalities, actions, and interactions of two men crucial to the end of apartheid in South Africa are recounted in John Carlin and Oriol Malet’s excellent graphic novel "Mandela and the General". Carlin had a perfect vantage... Read More

"7 Checklist Items for Success" is both familiar and religious in its proposals for becoming more successful. Jean G. Mathurin presents a road map for success in "7 Checklist Items for Success", a book designed for those from every walk... Read More