In "Plain", Mary Alice Hostetter chronicles her formative years within a Mennonite family and her later quest for personal independence. In Pennsylvania, Hostetter and her siblings worked on her parents’ farm. She also helped with... Read More

Rilla Askew’s historical novel "Prize for the Fire" is the tragic, passionate story of an Englishwoman who lived during the reign of Henry VIII. In 1537, Martha faces an arranged marriage. But her sudden death leaves a void in the... Read More

At the end of the Cold War, a television producer, Natasha Lance Rogoff, took on the challenge of creating Ulitsa Sezam, a Russian version of Sesame Street. In "Muppets in Moscow", she chronicles the challenges of that endeavor, from... Read More

In "Mirror in the Sky", Simon Morrison traces the development of Stevie Nicks’s artistic persona via a perusal of her music. After a brief outline of Nicks’s early life in the American West, the book follows her artistic development,... Read More

Gary J. Smith recalls how he helped to organize a historic hockey tournament between Canada and the Soviet Union in his memoir "Ice War Diplomat". In 1972, with the Cold War still in full swing, the relationship between Canada and the... Read More

In Vigdis Hjorth’s novel "Is Mother Dead", a woman takes drastic action to figure out where her relationship with her family went wrong. After thirty years, Johanna is finally back in Oslo, the city where she grew up. In all that time,... Read More

"Out of the Dark" is a musician’s hope-filled memoir about how she found strength and healing through her faith. In her powerful, moving memoir "Out of the Dark", Mandisa reflects on how faith anchored her throughout her music career... Read More

An experiment in creating meaning, "Let Go" is a compelling wordless novel about accepting change. A man is escorted from his former office on a snowy, windswept night in Mark Huebner’s wordless novel "Let Go". An unnamed man packs his... Read More