A mother works to improve her government and her family in the revealing novel "Owls, Doughnuts, and Democracy". A woman with political ambitions teams up with a knowledgeable octogenarian to effect change in Jason A. N. Taylor’s... Read More

A historically insightful memoir, "The Shochet" trades between humorous and grave descriptions of rural Jewish life in nineteenth-century Ukraine. The engrossing memoir of a Hasidic Jew living under the yoke of Tsarist Russia, volume one... Read More

"Rode" is a moving existential novel about personal identity and human connections. In J. Adams’s coming-of-age novel "Rode", a young man leaves the Southwest to explore his sexuality and to search for meaning. In the 1990s,... Read More

"Falcon Fire" is engrossing science fiction in which Venus’s class war comes to a head, showing that the dangers of misinformation span the whole of the solar system. In Erik A. Otto’s science fiction novel "Falcon Fire", a class war... Read More

The third edition of Angela Y. Davis’s seminal autobiography reintroduces the activist and scholar to audiences old and new. Written during her late twenties, soon after she was acquitted of charges related to a courtroom shootout,... Read More