The Gold Rush is over, and San Francisco teems with entrepreneurs of all stripes—shady and otherwise. Set in 1851, after the height of the Gold Rush, Ken Salter’s novel on French emigrants portrays entrepreneurialism‎ in San... Read More

An entertaining roast of “News Performance” in eighteenth-century London, this novel paints a vivid cultural melange of celebrity, misfortune, comedy, and moral bankruptcy. Leeds Merriweather is a gifted patterer whose livelihood... Read More

Folksy wisdom from long-married couples offers old-fashioned words of inspiration about how to keep a marriage going through the years. In "20 Questions for a Stronger Marriage", couples with decades of experience offer brief,... Read More

These stories are quickly absorbed but not quickly forgotten; each contains moments that leave one nodding in recognition, while opening windows on a singular city. Maggi Kerr Peirce presents vignettes of life in Belfast before sectarian... Read More

This tale of youth confronting adult greed, combined with comic book villains and a Bond-like atmosphere, is a promising beginning to the Stormglass series. Mutant bees. An international organization of elite spies. Capaciously... Read More

Building momentum with timeless themes, this novel piques interest through mystery and some persevering secondary characters. Demethius Jackson’s The Realmsic Conquest: The Hero of Legend begins with a much-employed fictional scene... Read More

A vibrant account of homecoming and natural change, this story for young readers portrays the meeting of art and nature. After hearing signs of an early spring one February morning, an unnamed artist approaches a blank canvas. He... Read More

Departing from commercial travel guides that promote typical approaches to tourism, this book ventures into the heritage and history of Guatemala for perceptive travelers. An uncommon guidebook for the backpacking humanitarian,... Read More