A riveting true crime story from history, Alex Hortis’s "The Witch of New York" chronicles the misogynist frenzy surrounding a notorious murder trial. On Christmas in 1843, a gruesome discovery horrified the close-knit community of... Read More

Rachel Trethewey’s "Mothers of the Mind" is a studied, reflective analysis of the relationships between three literary icons and their mothers. Virginia Woolf’s mother, Julia, is presented as a woman of remarkable beauty who rejected... Read More

Jehuda Reinharz and Motti Golani’s "Chaim Weizmann" is an expansive and engrossing study of the Zionist leader and Israel’s “founding father.” Born in 1874, Weizmann grew up in Russian-controlled Poland. Within his family,... Read More

The talent-rich and turbulent life of a legendary American singer is profiled in the graphic biography "Nina Simone in Comics!" Born poor in North Carolina, Eunice Kathleen Waymon showed musical aptitude early on. She aspired to be a... Read More

The life and work of a classic modern artist is recounted in Andy Warhol: A Graphic Biography. After studying art, design, and commercial art at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, twenty-one-year-old Andrew Warhola Jr. moves from... Read More

A thorough biography-cum-true-crime book, "Black Postmaster in a White Town" reports on an overlooked nineteenth-century atrocity that affects the victims’ descendants to this day. Fostenia W. Baker’s biography of Frazier Baker,... Read More

Memorable stories pair with beautiful artistic renderings in this effective graphic novel biography of the first president of the United States. Peter Dabbene, with illustrator Juan Carlos Colla Acland, introduces the events of George... Read More

Ralph Nader’s "The Rebellious CEO" profiles twelve executives for whom the greater good outweighed quick profits. These smart, flexible, independent thinkers instigated positive change and used their successes to leverage money and... Read More