What does it feel like to be an illegal immigrant? Tom Milton addresses this question directly in "The Golden Door", a book written in the voice of Maya Mendez, a young Mexican woman who has spent fifteen years living in the US. She’s... Read More

“Life don’t take prisoners,” a boozy, washed-up screen legend tells a young man trying to break into the film industry in the late 1990s. “Success is mostly luck, kid. That and showing up.” The main character of Brendan... Read More

Ezekiel: Every Life Positioned for Purpose is a ten-week daily study of the biblical book of Ezekiel. Interspersing discussion and comprehension questions with historical context and personal insight, Erica Wiggenhorn provides readers... Read More

“Welcome to Dubai, the dream city of every jobseeker from the subcontinent.” That is the greeting delivered to one of the key characters of this novel, which the author says “commingles” the facts of his personal experiences with... Read More

History is often the account of great events and broad social movements. But, James Srodes, author of "On Dupont Circle", has a slightly different approach to examining the genre: “Anyone who reads much history has to be struck by how... Read More

“I don’t have to be happy,” realizes the hero of Pavel Kostin’s It’s Time: Writing on the Wall, a novel recently translated from Russian into English by James Rann. The story details the meanderings of an acutely introspective... Read More

No less than the history of the world—beginning 100,000 years ago and extending through 2010—is presented in The New Atlas of World History: Global Events at a Glance, using comprehensive maps, timelines, and pertinent graphics.... Read More

Imagine a dystopian world in which virtually everyone was dying of cancer and treatments were no longer effective. Then imagine you had the key to saving the world, but at great danger to yourself. That is the premise behind the riveting... Read More