Women have assumed presidential power before, as this compelling portrait of Edith Wilson shows. Has America already had a woman president? William Hazelgrove’s Madam President: The Secret Presidency of Edith Wilson makes a compelling... Read More

This historical novel is perfectly relevant in this period of international instability. Amanda West Lewis’s "The Pact" is intriguing historical fiction from the memorable point of view of a German boy who comes of age during World War... Read More

Somewhere between feelings of latent crisis and ennui, Maribeth Klein has a heart attack. Only she doesn’t realize that it is a heart attack—not until the emergency room attendants roll her into surgery and away from any sense that... Read More

The teenage years are fraught with perils—usually the small, humiliating kind. Fifteen-year-old Jacob wears his adolescence like a hair shirt, in the hilarious YA romance For The Love Of Mary. Jacob is alternately confident and... Read More

"The Adjustment League" is both a literary tour de force and a deft psychological thriller. Mike Barnes’s "The Adjustment League" weaves together elements of a psychological drama and a noir thriller as it follows a nameless man who... Read More

New England cuisine and its piscine bounty are the stars of this outdoorsy new cookbook by acclaimed cookbook author Jennifer Trainer Thompson. At least half of the profusion of color photographs are shot by the shore, and one can almost... Read More

Writing can be an act of creation—or destruction. In Janet Todd’s "A Man of Genius", Ann St. Clair is a successful nineteenth century novelist of cheap gothic novels whose life is transformed when she meets the bold, enigmatic Robert... Read More

This fascinating work of medical history is refreshing and notable for its treatment of race as a critical part of the healthcare debate. Mike King’s "A Spirit of Charity" places the history of public healthcare in America in its... Read More