"Love and Kisses, Charlie" is a moving scrapbook of a family’s World War II correspondence. Compiled by Joshua Gerstein, the letters, postcards, and telegrams collected in "Love and Kisses, Charlie" were a source of family comfort that... Read More

Held together by references to Chicago, Keenan Norris’s "Chi Boy" is a memoir, a social history, a eulogy for his ancestors, and a tribute to inspiring literary men. Jim Crow racism drove Norris’s family north, landing them in... Read More

Derek Sayer’s "Postcards from Absurdistan" is an encompassing review of cultural and sociopolitical Prague from tumultuous 1938 onward, detailed with compassion for the Czech people. It is meticulous in recounting the regimes they have... Read More

Cecelia Tichi’s "Midcentury Cocktails" blends history, literature, and cultural critiques to address trends in alcohol and entertainment in the 1950s and 1960s. Despite what jokes about Baby Boomers suggest, the 1950s and 1960s were... Read More

First published in 1933, the new version of "Romania", edited by Ernest Latham Jr., compiles more than three hundred images by the late photographer Kurt Hielscher, taken during visits from 1931 to 1932. It’s an intriguing... Read More

"Haiti between Pestilence and Hope" is a hopeful text that recalls Haiti’s troubled political past while suggesting ways to brighten the nation’s future. Fritznel D. Octave uses Haitian history as a blueprint for the nation’s... Read More

In the concise, Bible-based novella "He Chose the Glory", believers explore what it means to honor God in both Jewish and Christian contexts. Louis McCall’s keen historical novella "He Chose the Glory" follows the movement of the Ark... Read More

Exemplifying family pride, Slim: Frank, 1922–2012 is the biography of an Australian man who memorably protested changing times. Slim: Frank, 1922–2012 is Angela Darlington’s biography of her grandfather, who resisted personal,... Read More