In "Liar Liar", a high-profile California rape trial seems a little suspicious. Nancy Boyarsky’s tough and likable protagonist Nicole Graves thinks so, too. It’s Nicole’s assignment to protect a college student who has accused a... Read More

"Alone Against Gravity" is a fascinating portrait of the most famous scientist of the twentieth century as he faced professional, personal, and political turning points on the eve of World War I. Einstein came to study in Berlin in 1913,... Read More

Explore a one-of-a-kind mountain retreat in the wilderness of the Vail Valley through the lush images and thoughtful, thorough writing of Living beneath the Colorado Peaks. Betsy and Bud Knapp, the former publishers of Architectural... Read More

In Seth Rogoff’s melancholy novel, "Thin Rising Vapors", a man tries to step out of time in the year-round solitude of a remote Maine summer home. Monkish, Thoreau-quoting Abel is revealed only after his death by apparent suicide, when... Read More

Kristin Bartzokis’s "(Extra)Ordinary Women" features ten contemporary stories of women who’ve been through hell and back. The hardships they endured are related with their firsthand input and a steady authorial tone. Each chapter is... Read More

Marianne Monson is an excellent storyteller whose research fills in the gaps regarding women and the Civil War in "Women of the Blue and Gray", centering on those who rebelled against expectations. The book covers women who flouted norms... Read More

In "The Third Degree", Scott D. Seligman examines a 100-year-old murder case that went all the way to the Supreme Court. The book is especially timely in its examinations of American police practices and attitudes about immigration.... Read More

Lieutenant Colonel Kate Germano led female marine recruits to succeed in a system that expected little from women and kept them out of infantry roles. In "Fight Like a Girl", she recounts bringing up performance scores and morale at the... Read More