This well-researched, thought-provoking analysis of overpopulation makes for fascinating reading. Allen Cookson’s voluminous work is a big book in many ways. In addition to its sheer mass (close to 600 pages) and broad coverage of... Read More

"Safari Salesman" is a lively and impressively detailed account of UK native John Harrison’s several months spent on the road in Africa in 1959 and 1960, when he traveled the bush peddling cosmetics, household equipment, and... Read More

Three intrepid, resilient kids learn to harness the elements and save themselves in this appealing fantasy for children who have suffered trauma. Open the richly illustrated cover of Raven’s Promise and enter the magical world created... Read More

Poetry and prose lyrically meld the Azerbaijan landscape with the author’s own spiritual and political experiences. In "My Road of Life", Azerbaijani poet and politician Sabir Rustamkhanli contends that “each road has its own magic... Read More

Well-rounded characters, realistic situations populate this gritty novel of violence in Birmingham. “Everybody makes mistakes … Sometimes things happen in the heat of the moment, and we make bad decisions. Now is the time to make... Read More

Laura Lewin, a North Carolina school counselor, wrote "Vagina Revolution" with the help of Barbara Green, a physical therapist with expertise in women’s health, sexuality, and pelvic floor dysfunction. This well-written,... Read More

Funny and readable, this story successfully pulls off the sci-fi alien point of view. Gene Snow Olsen’s "First Contact with Humans" nests philosophy, colonialism, and a first-contact scenario inside a Russian matryoshka doll of a... Read More

A different kind of coming-to-America tale illustrates irrationality of everyday life. If you’ve ever walked in the woods, you may have seen a bramble—a shrub with prickly, thorny branches. They’re difficult to walk around (much... Read More