NBM Publishing continues its popular and critically acclaimed “Louvre Collection” series of graphic novels with "Cruising through the Louvre", an inventive offering by David Prudhomme. Other entries in the Louvre series have focused... Read More

James Joyce’s life, like much of his work, can be something of a mystery, a puzzle to untangle. Alfonso Zapico gives a thorough and masterful pictorial retelling of Joyce’s life in James Joyce: Portrait of a Dubliner: A Graphic... Read More

In 1900, most of the world was ruled by powerful Western Christian empires, and it seemed reasonable to assume that the dawning twentieth century would be a Christian century. No one could have foreseen the fall of those empires, and no... Read More

By George, we hardly knew ya. One of the great lamentations of American historians is the dearth of knowledge about George Washington’s childhood. Washington rarely talked about it later in life, and we’re left with fabrications... Read More

Otherworldly ghostwriters compose biographies for ordinary people in this playfully metafictional novel. "The Hidden Treasure of Dutch Buffalo Creek" is the first novel in a projected series by Jackson Badgenoone. Blending aspects of... Read More

McMickle uses examples of church leaders in politics to explore the history of the separation of church and state. From the time the federal government first recognized the rights of African Americans to take part in the political... Read More

Experienced at life, Hirsekorn has valuable lessons for adults and children. A Journey Through Life, by Fred Hirsekorn, anthologizes some key moments in life for this German-born author who has witnessed the devastating reality of the... Read More

This unique coming-of-age fable blends the philosophical and metaphysical in a search for truth. Few have pulled off writing a book that seeks to be both fiction and nonfiction, and even The Alchemist gets placed in the pseudo-spiritual... Read More