An edifying, lesson-filled historical novel, "Olivia" focuses on a girl’s efforts to make her community an equitable one. Covering a decades-long path toward social equality, Alejandro Benavides’s inspired historical novel "Olivia"... Read More

A message of love and equality is centered in "Magda Revealed", a piquing alternative historical novel that reconstitutes a figure whose significance was buried in the Bible. In Ursula Werner’s illuminating novel "Magda Revealed", Mary... Read More

An affecting bildungsroman, "The Summer Between" is about personal discovery in a period of historical tumult. In Robert Raasch’s novel "The Summer Between", a college-bound man navigates his gay identity amid the upheavals of the... Read More

"Caveman Chronicles" is a busy and magnetic memoir that draws parallels between the lessons of youth and professional successes. Nashville music insider Todd Mayo’s adventure-filled memoir "Caveman Chronicles" covers his childhood,... Read More

Robert Aquinas McNally’s "Cast Out of Eden" is a detailed biography of American naturalist and Sierra Club founder John Muir. Born in Scotland, Muir arrived in the United States as a boy. He was brought by his father, who began a farm... Read More

A Beverly Hills event planner navigates her grief in Tay Marley’s romance novel "Meant for Me", about an impromptu trip that sparks healing. Addie was raised by her half-sister Margo; rending flashbacks reveal both Margo’s... Read More

Persuasive and thought-provoking, Benjamin Lewin’s "Inside Science" examines how big data is changing biological research. Contemporary scientific methods, Lewin says, are driven by large research teams, aggregated results across... Read More

Shilpi Suneja’s novel "House of Caravans" depicts the turbulent end of British-ruled India along with the ensuing violence amid the region’s Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs. Beyond this time of ravaged independence and the 1947... Read More