The surfing culture that California embodied in the middle of the twentieth century wouldn’t have been possible without the sport’s Hawaiian origins—or without George Freeth, the surfing virtuoso and heroic lifeguard who helped... Read More

Wendy L. Rouse’s historical survey "Public Faces, Secret Lives" reveals the LGBTQ+ side of the fight for women’s suffrage. Many suffragists, Rouse says, were “very queer”—a term that, in the book, extends to suffragists who... Read More

This loving homage to role-playing games is dialed-in, lighthearted, and knowledgeable, frolicking through familiar fantasy grounds with joy. In Andrew Snook’s interactive fantasy novel Dungeon Jest, a wondrous realm is reimagined in... Read More

"Leading Lightly" recommends leadership improvement techniques that are designed to make its audience more engaged, mindful, and communicative. With elements of self-help, Jody Michael’s engaging business book "Leading Lightly" asserts... Read More

Spotlighting male fragility, the stories of Christopher Evans’s "Nothing Could Be Further from the Truth" show uncomfortable negotiations with the truth of feelings and circumstances. A jealous man wears sneakers belonging to his... Read More

Becca Piastrelli’s insightful spiritual text includes advice for living a satisfying life by connecting to one’s land, lineage, community, and self. Each of the book’s four sections begins with a philosophical discussion of the... Read More

Lance Olsen explores the past and potential future of human interaction in his spellbinding novel "Skin Elegies". The twentieth century was filled with grand and intimate tragedies: natural disasters, murders, abuses, accidents. These... Read More

In "The Isolation Artist", Bob Keyes explores the tumultuous life and death of an influential artist. Robert Indiana is best remembered for his rendering of the word “LOVE” in bold type, the first two letters atop the last two, the... Read More