"Vegan Everything" may be a lofty title, but Nadine Horn and Jörg Mayer’s compilation of plant-based recipes comes remarkably close. Going around the world in one hundred recipes, with neither an animal by-product nor ounce of... Read More

As an examination of twentieth-century history, this book does an excellent job of rewriting accepted myths. A nonobjective paean to liberalism, L. K. Samuels’s political history text "Killing History" is also a much-needed corrective... Read More

An accordion-playing alligator, a bear with bagpipes, and a concerto of crickets on clarinet and cornets lead the way through the ABCs in this rhythmic, rhyming alphabet book that’s perfect for cultivating a love or appreciation of... Read More

Melissa Hardy’s irreverent and funny novel "The Oracle of Cumae" is a layered tale wherein the present collides with the distant past. Coming to the end of her life, Mariuccia calls for a priest—but not because she wants to confess... Read More

From Bigfoot to Area 51 to the Jersey Devil, the United States boasts plenty of legendary unsolved mysteries, and the Midwest has had its share of odd occurrences. B. J. Hollars takes a look at a few of these in the entertaining and... Read More

"The Soledad Children" is a painful legal history from the not-so-distant past, when biased testing and cultural segregation were the rule, rather than the exception. Marty Glick and Maurice Jourdane’s "The Soledad Children" is the... Read More

"Malila of the Scorch" is a thrilling dystopia whose characters fight to defend everything that matters most. A handful of spies and fighters are the only people who can save America from invasion in W. Clark Boutwell’s novel "Malila... Read More

A childhood and early adulthood marked by sexual abuse and rape led Dane Zaa and Cree woman Helen Knott into deep addiction. Despite her descent, she also managed to travel to Switzerland at the behest of the Nobel Women’s Initiative... Read More