A moving, detailed story of overcoming abuse and unhealthy marriages, this memoir captivates through admirable description of everyday life. A survivor of both childhood and domestic abuse tells her story in a straightforward manner in... Read More

Respectful, sweet characters combine with rich detail of day-to-day life to present a worthwhile message about love. In "If Only", a sweet romance about first love, star high school quarterback Bill and pretty redhead Sarah have an... Read More

The enduring lesson of all wars, reinforced in Vietnam and more recently in Iraq and Afghanistan, is that tours of duty do not end with the return home. Indeed, as Stuart Nicholls shows in this compelling fictional memoir, home may no... Read More

First published in 1992 as one of many books commemorating the five-hundredth anniversary of Columbus’s transatlantic exploration, the re-release of this biography demonstrates that while Americans owe Queen Isabella a tremendous debt,... Read More

Military fiction is one of the oldest genres—look at Homer. Societies keep engaging in new wars so writers willing to do the necessary research have lots of material to mine. Soldiers and sailors supply them with real heroes cowards... Read More

A distinctive voice speaks throughout this generous offering of poems. A thousand people could cry out from the streets, but Komunyakaa’s voice would be the one heard. His voice is immediately recognizable due to its subjects and to an... Read More