A legendary sword, mysterious portals, and an old foe bring magic and mischief to Avalon in Rin Chupeco’s young adult novel, "An Unreliable Magic". Picking up where the previous volume left off, the novel recounts important details in... Read More

Based on the true story of Sarah Forbes Bonetta, Anni Domingo’s epic historical novel honors the unbreakable bond between two sisters who are captured by slavers in a vicious raid on their African village, sold, and sent to two... Read More

The origins of the conspiracy theories that permeate modern American politics are revealed in Edward H. Miller’s biography of Robert Welch, "A Conspiratorial Life". Born into a family of North Carolina farmers who fought in the... Read More

Claudio Lomnitz explores his family’s long, restless history in his memoir "Nuestra América". In many ways, Lomnitz grew up isolated from his cultural heritage. He was born in Chile to a Jewish family whose members were either... Read More

The threat of war has long been the most persuasive tool of statesmanship, made the better if you occasionally back it up on the battlefield. Diplomacy has a place, yes, but the laws of the jungle are often the only rules that really... Read More

Royal robes and palace walls hide treachery in plain sight in Helen Corcoran’s "Queen of Coin and Whispers". When Lia’s uncle dies, she inherits the throne of Edar. But her uncle’s rule was marked by selfishness at the expense of... Read More

In his historical study Hitler’s True Believers, Robert Gellately examines the motivations and rationalizations behind German popular support for the Third Reich. Hitler’s rise to power in 1933 is one of the most important and... Read More