Extensive detail provides insight into postwar treatment of Korean War POWs, putting it into present-day context. As Brian D. McKnight acknowledges at the outset of his comprehensive history of twenty-three American soldiers who declined... Read More

The story of intrigue between rival factions in the new Cuban government and William Alexander Morgan’s place in the middle of it all is as compelling as a crime novel. "The Yankee Comandante" is the second book coauthored by Pulitzer... Read More

Without shying away from the painful parts of life, this anthology celebrates the role of fathers in their daughters’ lives. Every Father’s Daughter: Twenty-Four Women Writers Remember Their Fathers, selected and presented by... Read More

This in-depth analysis of environmental conservation shows how seeking new responses to decreasing biodiversity can offer hope. Editors George Wuerthner, Eileen Crist, and Tom Butler deliver a powerful collection of environmental essays... Read More

This ambitious collection of Americana-themed essays blends travel, personal anecdote, history, and science. The pieces in "The World Is on Fire", Joni Tevis’s second work of creative nonfiction, tread a fine line between essays and... Read More

In the space of these pages, McHale Holland has cultivated a community that encourages speaking truth to empower. In Sisters Born, Sisters Found: A Diversity of Voices on Sisterhood, editor Laura McHale Holland captures the feeling of... Read More

Countering the voices, inner and outer, that demand women’s silence, fiction writers imagine new possibilities into being. The works of a substantial number of Western women writers reveal a major theme: the journey of the... Read More

A creative flight of fancy that should be fun for techies and just as amusing for readers who appreciate literary spoofs. The premise of this book is aptly stated in its title: What would happen if famous authors had to write various... Read More