Two outcasts from a troubled Rwandan village try to save their country in Scholastique Mukasonga’s novel "Kibogo". In the 1940s and 1950s, Rwanda faced numerous tragedies, including drought, famine, war, and continuing repression by... Read More

In the fantastical novel Visions of the Spirit Man, a man hopes to redeem himself from the mistakes of his past. George Mendoza’s fabulistic novel "Vision of the Spirit Man" covers a man’s fever-pitched quest to understand his past... Read More

Art historian Noah Charney describes himself as “a proponent of making art feel accessible to anyone who is willing to meet it halfway,” and "The 12-Hour Art Expert" accomplishes that mission via an anecdotal, conversational approach... Read More

In "The Continuing Storm", Kai Erikson and Lori Peek discuss the short- and long-term effects of Hurricane Katrina on its most vulnerable victims. When Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in August of 2005, it inflicted devastating... Read More

Nostradamus Speaks Again: Heaven Paradise is a spiritual guidebook with a diverse cast of narrators. Elisabeth Jorgensen’s Nostradamus Speaks Again: Heaven Paradise is a spiritual guidebook that’s written as a conversation between... Read More

A user-friendly self-help resource, "Journaling through Grief" contains encouraging scriptures and prompts for coping with the loss of a loved one. Connie Berg’s "Journaling through Grief" is a hope-filled, Bible-based resource for... Read More

Propelled by an impulse to look back and take stock, the prose poems of David Trinidad’s intimate "Digging to Wonderland" twin memory and nostalgia. Conversational and confessional, the book has the tone of diary entries as it catalogs... Read More

Judy Goldman relishes memories of a loving relationship in her memoir "Child" while also struggling to reconcile herself to the systemic racism of the Jim Crow South. In midcentury South Carolina, Goldman blossomed under the care of... Read More