Touring motorcyclists enjoy their mode of travel because they can get so much closer to their surroundings than caged-in drivers in their automobiles. This practical, well-considered guide promises to put motorcyclists in intimate... Read More

No woman is ever ready to care for a sick parent or to watch her daughter grow up and live on her own. But in "Necessary Places", Anna Donoghue has to confront both inevitable realities at once. After enduring a quiet but emotionally... Read More

Summer camps and boarding schools are ideal settings for fiction; the removal of parents from the equation expands the possibilities significantly. That’s Not a Feeling, by Dan Josefson, combines that isolated sense of setting—The... Read More

With a tsunami about to overrun their home, the islanders of East Pukapuka stand with hands linked, facing the end that their gods have created for them. But one small girl named Butter is missing, as she desperately tries to rescue the... Read More

A dying president, an untested second-in-command, a brash and self-righteous challenger—Stanley Weintraub’s Final Victory: FDR’s Extraordinary World War II Presidential Campaign comes front-loaded with enough dramatic material for... Read More

No two men captured the zeitgeist of Gilded Age America more than Mark Twain, the cultural icon, and Theodore Roosevelt, the political one, claims the author in this dual biography and narrative history of 1890-1910. Although this was... Read More

For those who have lived in a landscape that is shared with wild animals, "Wild Delicate Seconds" will conjure the transcendent moments that occur between wildlife and humans. In a collection of “micro-essays,” Charles Finn describes... Read More

At present, a group of ravens resides in the famed Tower of London, protectors—so the story goes—of the Royal Crown. Legend also has it that, should these ravens ever depart from the Tower, London will fall. How these legends arose,... Read More