"Straight Lady" is the untold story of an iconic, underappreciated talent who helped to shape early Hollywood comedies. Chris Enss and Howard Kazanjian’s "Straight Lady" is the biography of Margaret Dumont, best known for playing... Read More

In "Mirror in the Sky", Simon Morrison traces the development of Stevie Nicks’s artistic persona via a perusal of her music. After a brief outline of Nicks’s early life in the American West, the book follows her artistic development,... Read More

One of the greatest rewards of winning the Nobel Prize in Medicine is the authority it bestows on the winner. But in Heroes & Scoundrels, medical historian Moira Dolan encourages healthy skepticism toward pronouncements from medical... Read More

Century’s Witness is Mary Llewellyn McNeil’s behind-the-scenes biography of a respected newsman. One of Wallace Carroll’s greatest gifts as a journalist was his timing. Fresh from journalism school in Milwaukee, he was the first... Read More

James D. Richardson’s biography "The Abolitionist’s Journal" concerns the extraordinary life of George Richardson, an antislavery advocate and traveling Methodist preacher. George Richardson kept a 300-page journal that became... Read More

Teresa Lim’s memoir "The Interpreter’s Daughter" reveals hidden family secrets amid accounts of love, loss, migration, and memory. In 1935, Law traveled from his adopted home in Singapore to his native village in Canton to die.... Read More

"Out of the Shadows" is a gripping book that brings the courage, valor, and dedication of American women soldiers into the light. In Ron Farina’s "Out of the Shadows", nine American women veterans share the raw truth of life on the... Read More

"This Dark Star" is a fascinating introduction to a talented sixteenth-century astronomer and mathematician. Charles L. Ladner’s "This Dark Star" is the enlightening biography of sixteenth-century astronomer Thomas Digges. Ladner notes... Read More