World travel offers abundant opportunities for visitors to explore the history, natural landscape, and culture of other countries. Underlying these attractions lies a complex mix of regional attitudes that are sometimes confusing to a... Read More

Tien Oung Liu: A 20th Century Chinese Profile, by Margaret Liu Wen Tsai, is a warm and inspiring bilingual account of one Chinese businessman’s life. Written by Liu’s daughter, this biography traces Liu’s family background before... Read More

A mysterious hooded enemy, garbed in “unfamiliar uniforms,” is ravaging the land, raping, looting, killing, and burning everything in their path. “Who are these guys?” asks a puzzled defender of the crown in Christopher Lewis’... Read More

“Who the hell would be interested in reading my memoirs?” asks author, songwriter, and playwright Arthur Langer in Songs at Twilight: Stories of My Time. With an eye to avoiding “the burden of minutiae which most likely could put... Read More

To write a fictionalized autobiography of Jesus is to risk offending some readers. Edward J. Murray is to be commended for his courage, if not his style, in writing The Memoir of a Nazarene: Jay Levi. To have Jesus, or, as he is known in... Read More

Adults, preteens, and teenagers alike will find invaluable insight and information about middle school, its dangers and pleasures, in this fun and humorous book by middle-school teacher Kimberly Dana. In Lucy and CeCee’s How to Survive... Read More

“I was in Ambercromby’s army at Ticonderoga,” quips Thomas Dordrecht, hero of Jonathan Carriel’s historical mystery. “I can stomach a corpse.” That is fortunate for the young apprentice because corpses abound in 1762 New... Read More

Marilyn Shieh is a physician with a private practice in California. Her daughter, Michelle Shieh, has a bachelor degree in biology. The younger Shieh struggled with childhood obesity, whose treatment is a passion for both women. Though... Read More