When Louise Wolfe’s boyfriend makes disparaging comments about Native people, she breaks up with him. After all, she is part of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and proud of it. But in the small Kansas town her family has lived in for just... Read More

Carol A. Stabile explores the “cleansing” of progressive women writers, artists, and performers from postwar American television in "The Broadcast 41". It’s a chilling account of how FBI and conservative leaders worked to cement... Read More

A Pawn’s Journey is a compelling novel with audience improvement in mind. Elliott Neff’s lifelike self-help novel A Pawn’s Journey uses chess strategies as a metaphor for building life skills. The story focuses on a floundering... Read More

Beneath a New Jersey sky, a young girl with the deck stacked against her falls in love with the weather. Years later, feeling an odd fit with her PhD program at MIT, she heads north to try her hand at television meteorology, whirling... Read More

"Queen of Kenosha" introduces Nina Overstreet, an aspiring performer in the 1960s Greenwich Village music scene who becomes intimately involved in the covert world of Nazis and secret ops. The first book of Howard Shapiro’s Thin... Read More

Maggie Thrash follows her highly regarded memoir Honor Girl with another graphic-novel memoir, "Lost Soul, Be at Peace", which paradoxically incorporates mysterious fictional elements to create an autobiographical story that’s... Read More

The experiences and disquieting realizations of black women come through "Training School for Negro Girls", in which Washington, DC, and its surroundings are treated with tension and tenderness. Spanning girlhood to adulthood, these... Read More

Pumas (also known as cougars, mountain lions, and ghost cats) are the least familiar of North and South America’s big cats. Seldom-seen loners, their numbers are growing even as other species diminish. In "Path of the Puma", biologist... Read More