Collins shows that change, even of the smallest kind, comes at the cost of great dedication and even greater love. It took four decades of lawyers, litigation, LGBTQ activists, and patient, persistent engagement to legalize gay marriage.... Read More

Quietly masterful, the novel contains rich details of nineteenth-century Russian life. Sofia Khvoshchinskaya’s "City Folk and Country Folk" is a slyly captivating, contemporaneous novel of mid-nineteenth-century Russia. Khvoshchinskaya... Read More

Ikard’s book is an essential wake-up call to all white Americans who are not actively engaged in combating racism. In "Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs", David Ikard, director of Africana studies at the University... Read More

Focusing on the significance of relationships, the novel resonates with truth and clarity. A breezy read full of quirky names and subtle charm, "Christian Bend" is an intriguing story with complex characters whose lives contain a few... Read More

"Flora of Middle-Earth" resides at the intersection of the mundane and the fantastical. An ambitious labor of love, Flora of Middle-Earth: Plants of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Legendarium, by Walter S. Judd and Graham A. Judd, marries science... Read More

"Keeping It Halal" is compellingly relevant and paints a picture of the modern Muslim-American experience. Comprehensive fieldwork and engaging candor elevate John O’Brien’s Keeping It Halal: The Everyday Lives of Muslim American... Read More

McCabe details a true story of love, loss, and a young woman’s tragic end, all through the mysteries of her family’s past. Melanie McCabe’s "His Other Life" details an intriguingly twisted genealogical journey that uncovers secrets... Read More

This is the story of a family and its struggle between old and new homelands, between idealism and reality. Bill Lazarre was an immigrant from what’s now Moldova, an organizer for the Communist Party in the United States, a soldier who... Read More