"Wonders of the Indian Wilderness" (Abbeville Press, 978-0-7892-0999-3), photo-ecologist Erach Bharucha’s labor of love, was decades in the making. It’s so thick that readers are advised to check the weight ratings of their coffee... Read More

Near the end of World War II the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA, conducted one of the war’s most secretive and important missions. It aimed to drive the Nazis from the geographically criti-calBrenner Pass. The... Read More

Joe Carmichiel doesn’t need to read the newspaper or watch the evening news to learn about the distressing state of America’s youth. As a high school English teacher, he gets daily, up-close views of students who are completely inept... Read More

"A Native American Thought of It" is an educational book written by Rocky Landon, an Ojibway band member and Native Studies consultant from Ontario, with children’s book author David MacDonald, "A Native American Thought of It"... Read More

"The Freedom Business" (Wordsong, 978-1-932425-57-4) is a cross of forms encompassing an original narrative transcribed from a 1798 manuscript by the one-time slave Venture Smith, poems from Newberry Honor author Marilyn Nelson, and art... Read More

As a boy in 1930’s Wisconsin, Jim Lovell spent his free time reading stories about astronauts and mysterious planets. Forty years later, Jim would find himself in the midst of a real-life space adventure that held the entire world... Read More

It doesn’t matter—Iraq War, drug war, culture war, gang war, race war, or Vietnam War—where there’s war there are both the wounded and the survivors who get to fight another day. Sager exhumes real people behind potent... Read More

Younger football fans can’t conceive of a time when conditions weren’t as they are today, with multi-million-dollar contracts and 300-pound linemen the norm. But the modern NFL did not spring on the scene whole cloth; there were... Read More