Gerald Easter and Mara Vorhees’s "The Last Stand of the Raven Clan" is an engrossing history of the Tlingit-Russian war, its causes, and its impacts on North America. Written... Read More

In Jessica Mills’s absorbing biographical novel "The English Chemist", the scientist responsible for discovering the illusive structure of DNA is denied recognition due to the... Read More

Islam Issa’s "Alexandria" is an outstanding biography of a unique city, describing how the Egyptian locale changed from its founding by Alexander the Great into the modern... Read More

With a small group of fellow explorers, Leon McCarron followed the Tigris River from its mountainous source to its mouth at the Persian Gulf. His travelogue, "Wounded Tigris",... Read More

Allyson Shaw traverses Scotland, visiting historical sites and memorials, in her meaningful book "Ashes and Stones". Focused on the women who were accused of witchcraft in... Read More

In Elizabeth Fremantle’s historical novel "Disobedient", an artist fights for freedom and restitution. Rome is buzzing. The talent of young painter Artemisia Gentileschi... Read More

Musicians converge on a single stage for a contest that will separate technical skill from true genius in "Honeybees and Distant Thunder", a novel that cements Riku Onda as a... Read More

Antonia Fraser’s biography of Caroline Lamb reassesses the English noblewoman’s life—too often defined and confined by her notorious affair with Lord Byron. Born in 1785,... Read More

Filled with dramatic, often violent, seventeenth-century court and clergy intrigues, Bronwen McShea’s "La Duchesse" is meticulous—the “first fully researched modern... Read More

The “Cold Rush” is coming, professor Matthew Birkhold heralds, and its quarry is icebergs and the freshwater supplies they could ensure. "Chasing Icebergs", with its affable... Read More

The Chinese diaspora meets culinary ingenuity in "Have You Eaten Yet?", Cheuk Kwan’s robust food travelogue and social history of Chinese restaurants. Kwan, whose documentary... Read More

Esther Woolfson’s "Between Light and Storm" contemplates the eons-long interaction between human beings and animals. It questions what the belief that humans are superior to... Read More