Dualities of hot and cold, zealous and level-headed, distinguish characters and their flaws in this hilarious sci-fi work. Set in a universe where all work is academic, "Brittle Star" follows the journey of a shipload of prisoner... Read More

An entertaining roast of “News Performance” in eighteenth-century London, this novel paints a vivid cultural melange of celebrity, misfortune, comedy, and moral bankruptcy. Leeds Merriweather is a gifted patterer whose livelihood... Read More

Superb illustrations and plenty of humor in this delightful book on little-known animal facts. Blind chameleons, bats, polar bears that prefer left over right, and jumping bison all populate Marije Tolman’s gorgeous and highly... Read More

Vivid portraits of forthright characters and a graceful landscape revive the sense of place of the American West. To write about the American West is to capture its graceful and unforgiving landscape and how it defines the people who... Read More

Want to know how to achieve pure self-improvement? Watch your infant child, says Kuwana Haulsey in her inspirational book. Watching a child open a gift when they are still young enough to be enthralled by the box it came in reminds one... Read More

Gorgeous descriptions and reflective exposition moderate the dramatic pace of this exciting international story of one family’s secretive past. Scott Driscoll’s debut, "Better You Go Home", evokes the cautious world of mid-1990s... Read More

This intelligent, well-sourced critique focuses on the economics of the meat industrial complex. This top-to-bottom critique details how the government works with the meat industry to nearly force Americans to eat excessive amounts of... Read More

This comprehensive analysis of Hezbollah is meticulously detailed and made gripping by a flowing narrative. Few non-followers of Shi’a fundamentalism would consider Hezbollah “the party of God.” Although recognized as a legitimate... Read More