In Curtis Bradley Vickers’s harrowing novel This Here Is Devil’s Work, two wildland firefighters and a cattle rustler are thrust together when lightning sparks a blaze. Morgan is a brash but effective member of the Ruby Mountain... Read More
Marveling over the act of voyaging, Geoffrey Weill’s "All Abroad" is a quintessential travel text. Recalling time tables and hotels, iconic poster designs, and the New York office of the Thomas Cook travel group, the book records... Read More
Teresa Fazio’s shocking memoir "Fidelis" recalls her deployment to Iraq and her stateside return. Fazio, a lieutenant in the US Marines, shares a vivid account of her deployment when she was a naïve twenty-three-year-old. Through her... Read More
Elizabeth McGowan lost her father to melanoma when he was forty-four and she was fifteen. She rediscovered him during a bike ride across the US, following her battle with the same disease. Joyful, introspective, terrifying, and sobering,... Read More
A compact but powerful self-analysis of becoming independent and thriving, "A Limitless Life in a Powerless World" is a motivational memoir. Lisa Marie Runfola’s uplifting memoir "A Limitless Life in a Powerless World" concerns... Read More
A wonderful portrait of a beloved politician, "Patrick J. Lucey" is an essential addition to the history of Wisconsin politics. Dennis L. Dresang’s expansive biography "Patrick J. Lucey" suggests the national importance of an otherwise... Read More
Emma Sky’s "In a Time of Monsters" is transportative, introducing a region rife with conflict and hope. For many, the Middle East seems abstract, or a homogeneous idea associated with turmoil and violence. While in some places that may... Read More
Accessibility is the name of the game with A Year with the Sages. For those seeking a more academic take on the weekly Torah portion but who don’t have higher level divinity degrees, this companion from Rabbi Reuven Hammer is an... Read More