Set in Akwa Ibom, Nigeria, among the Annang people, "He Dared" is a detailed biography of an African ruler unknown to most American readers. The story might best be summed up by Offonmbuk C. Akpabio’s own allusion to the title of the... Read More

Following the exploits of a novice fisherman as he plies his trade in the waters of both Alaska and Florida, "Alaskan Crude" is an episodic account of the rough and tumble ways of an independent breed of men. Part memoir, part industry... Read More

Former Texas mayor Betty Noble Turner has written an engaging biography of her grandfather, Gilbert Clifford Noble, one of the founders of the Barnes & Noble bookstore chain and Noble & Noble textbook publishers. In "The Noble... Read More

The horrors of the Nigerian Civil War in the late 1960s are dramatically retold in this personal account by Celestina Isichei-Isamah, who, as a college student, witnessed the brutal murder of family and countrymen. Her political... Read More

America in the late 1950s and early 1960s wasn’t an easy place or time for a “misfit” to come of age. Margaret Marcus was an unpretty, unpopular, and very bright Jewish girl growing up in suburban New York, in an era that clung... Read More

“The archetypal composer of the Romantic Age” is how Steven Lagerberg adoringly describes Frederic Chopin in this lovingly crafted, meticulously researched, and generously illustrated book. Despite the title, this is no dry... Read More

Anyone interested in the history of film making and what it takes to write and direct movies that matter should look no further than this book. Escaping the Philadelphia slums in the 1930s to become a journalist in Atlantic City and New... Read More

In the tradition of works like The Tao of Pooh and The Gospel According to Peanuts, Eden Tedla proposes to illustrate the spiritual values that frame creative work and that are a part of pop culture. "The Dream Continues" examines the... Read More