Vietnam, a star-crossed country if there ever was one, but also a fascinating crucible for viewing the last century’s global struggles with colonization, ideology, religious persecution, foreign policy, proxy warfare, and governmental... Read More

History is fun, despite the dreary recollections of legions of now-graying former seventh graders. It is also—as all those Mrs. Simpsons who oversaw our adolescent educations insisted—informative and might even provide guidelines for... Read More

Life writing is a broad church. Gone are the days when you could pick up any book classified under biography or memoir and expect to find a linear narrative spanning from birth through old age. The books we feature here represent a huge... Read More

Paradise Sands / A Story of Enchantment / Levi Pinfold / Candlewick Studio / Hardcover $18.99 (40pp) / 978-1-5362-1282-2 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Haunting and surreal, this fantasy tale for young readers follows... Read More

Over the recent years, we’ve been elated to see a surge in the number of nature-related books reaching our offices, and we’re doing everything we can to help those soothing books find their way to readers looking for a bit of relief... Read More

Reviewer Karl Helicher Interviews Melanie Morrison, Author of Murder on Shades Mountain. Of all the racial divisions in this country, one of the most enduring and discouraging is the percentage of white Americans who don’t see racism... Read More