This family biography is a pleasure to read throughout: illuminating, deliberate, and lovely. Aiyanna Sezak-Blatt’s "A Tangled Tree" is an aching, beatific trip through a family’s cellular memory, showing how intricately our futures... Read More

This is a nuanced and well-documented exploration of the controversies around the early Veterans Bureau. In 1921, with soldiers back from the Great War in need of medical care, the Harding administration introduced the Veterans Bureau... Read More

The fourteen Critical Essays in Paul Spickard’s "Race in Mind" bring to the fore many delightful and provocative observations and one abrupt realization: race is and always was a dumb idea. That is, after many several thousand years of... Read More

This is a comprehensive and well-researched history of one of South America’s most exciting cities. The city of Rio de Janeiro is having the international spotlight shone on it thanks to Brazil’s many recent achievements and the fact... Read More

A calm, respectful tone sets this well-researched political-change treatise apart. Beyond Liberty Alone: A Progressive Vision of Freedom and Capitalism in America by Howard I. Schwartz, PhD, is a calm look at where America has gone... Read More

This suspenseful novel contains a subtle message about how power could be used for good. In Glorious Incorporated: The Joshua Chronicles, by Steven Neil Moore, what starts as a corporate recruiting competition for the services of a young... Read More

Filled with too much libidinous lust? Try a little alliterative rap for relief. This book’s message—that lust is the original sin leading to all subsequent human failings and that yoga can help overcome it—will engage some readers,... Read More

Access to the spirit world brings a refreshing angle to the detective genre. "In the Moors" cheerfully follows the sensual and independent Sabbie Dare into the markets and boot sales of Bridgwater, the wetlands of Somerset, and the... Read More