Ancestral voices come through clearly in this work that will engage students of period histories. In matter-of-fact prose, Diana Walstad’s Family History (1860–1950) of a Doctor’s Daughter follows the author’s ancestors as they... Read More

Authored by the top curators at the Palace of Versailles and the Louvre, and lavishly illustrated as only the J. Paul Getty Trust can do, "Marie-Antoinette" takes us on location to experience the queen’s rarefied world: her living... Read More

What makes the book work are the same things that propel Aronoff’s music: a steady beat, impeccable timing, and always hitting hard. Kenny Aronoff shares his inspirational, cautionary, and captivating story of reaching the highest... Read More

Osamu Tezuka was a towering figure in Japanese manga and anime, referred to as the God of Manga and Japan’s Walt Disney. Despite his importance in the development of these fields, Tezuka’s name and work are not well known outside his... Read More

"Survival" is a detailed account of one man’s simple and powerful pursuit of meaning amid the horrors of life in a prison camp. Survival: My Father’s War as an Air Force Gunner and POW by Barbara Trendos is an epistolary-style... Read More

This gripping and timely portrait of a highly decorated police officer sheds light on the challenges of inner-city policing. In "Badge 387", Cleveland-based journalist Robert Sberna weaves skillful biography with gritty true-crime... Read More

Denim pants have never been so interesting as in Lynn Downey’s new biography of the very man who birthed blue jeans. "Levi Strauss" is a fresh, in-depth, groundbreaking look at an American icon. The first official historian for Levi... Read More

In Abe-vs.-Adolf, Maya Ross and Abe Peck speak powerfully for the voiceless millions whose stories will never be told. In the early morning of April 30, 1945, an American tank plowed through the entrance of the Allach concentration camp,... Read More