In Mary Clearman Blew’s novel "Think of Horses", a disheartened, middle-aged romance novelist returns to her native Montana to reevaluate her life choices. It’s summer in Sun Creek, the mountainous ranching country that skilled horse... Read More

"Memory House" is a subtle, elegiac memoir about love and devotion. L.G. Mason’s ardent and incisive memoir of a marriage, "Memory House", juxtaposes memories of his wife before she developed dementia with the woman she became after... Read More

Don and Petie Kladstrup’s "Champagne Charlie" is the enjoyable biography of Charles Heidsieck, a dazzling, daring, and adroit French champagne merchant who risked his life and limbs to sell his esteemed bubbly to Americans in the... Read More

"The Believer" is the expansive story of John E. Mack, a preeminent Harvard Medical School professor and psychiatrist whose exploration of alien abduction phenomena nearly destroyed his career and reputation. Born in 1929 to wealthy... Read More

With a play-by-play tone and copious statistics, "Pro Basketball in 1939-40" is a text made for sports aficionados. In "Pro Basketball in 1939-40", John Hogrogian, a sports history researcher and retired attorney, focuses on the... Read More

In the late nineteenth century, the animal story, a new genre of nature writing, was both popular and controversial. These weren’t cutesy tales of talking deer spinning allegories or anthropomorphized, besuited grizzly bears ready to... Read More

The lives of Las Vegas convention goers, perky prostitutes, casino gangsters, a firearms instructor, and a brothel owner converge in Wesley S. Lewis’s deadly, nonstop suspense debut, "West of Sin". New Wave, a Dallas-based real estate... Read More

Emily Arnason Casey’s expansive and elegiac essay collection "Made Holy" is full of unsparing personal revelations and fierce, unflinching insights. The opening essay, “The Cabin,” establishes the collection’s tone. Ruminating on... Read More