Smart and sensual, You Can’t Buy Love Like That captures a woman coming into her own in a time of tremendous social change. Carol E. Anderson’s You Can’t Buy Love Like That: Growing Up Gay in the Sixties is an immediately engaging... Read More

The writing is fantastic and topics are diverse, with in-depth and beautifully written looks at moments and movements. This important selection of news stories stands to be both instructive to students of journalism and a treat for its... Read More

This friendly book challenges investors to think bigger and to think differently. Brian Murray’s "Crushing It in Apartments and Commercial Real Estate" forwards practical advice, fed by firsthand experiences, for investing in real... Read More

"If Clara" is moving and wiry, and full of poetic coincidences. A story of artistic accomplishment and mental struggles, "If Clara" comes through four narrators who are connected to the enigmatic title character. Creative, troubled, and... Read More

"A Murder in Music City" imparts a great sense of 1960s Nashville as it unfolds an old crime in the present day. Eighteen-year-old college student Paula Herring was shot dead at her mother’s Nashville home in 1964, with her young... Read More

Dawson and Todd’s burgeoning Civil War romance ignites curiosity. "Practical Strangers" is a remarkable compilation of letters from 1861 and 1862 that present a nearly complete record of Elodie Todd—the sister-in-law of Abraham... Read More

"Her Own Hero" is a highly readable study whose historical accounts of sexism and xenophobia bear repeated discussion. Wendy L. Rouse’s "Her Own Hero" examines the social conditions that led to the women’s self defense movement of... Read More

A ragtag cast of supporting characters, human and otherwise, shines. In Debbie Burns’s "A New Leash on Love", Megan runs an animal shelter outside St. Louis. The temperamental beauty gives a handsome stranger a piece of her mind when... Read More