Realistic depictions of Ozark life and surviving memories of war make this novel compelling. Sara Rhodes and Bob Smith’s "Iniquities of Gulch Fork" is the believable story of vulnerable people falling prey to a con man, addiction, and... Read More

For Francophiles, this book is as irresistible as an open bottle of Dom Pérignon. Jordan Phillips’s "Inspired by Paris" is a fun, frothy, and surprisingly useful grand panorama of Parisians and Parisian life. Using a... Read More

Large animal veterinary practice takes on gargantuan proportions in Yoss’s "Super Extra Grande", a romp of a novel that weds sci-fi and high farce. In a future that has cracked the code on intergalactic travel, narrator Dr. Jan Sangan... Read More

The teenage years are fraught with perils—usually the small, humiliating kind. Fifteen-year-old Jacob wears his adolescence like a hair shirt, in the hilarious YA romance For The Love Of Mary. Jacob is alternately confident and... Read More

As Islamophobia grips America and Europe, "Never Can I Write of Damascus" comes like a godsend to banish ignorance and illumine the richness of multiculturalism. Teacher and activist duo Theresa Kubasak and Gabe Huck recount their years... Read More

During the 1960s, the Cold War was fought on many fronts and fields of battle—nuclear weapon technology, Cuba and other geopolitical hotspots, the Olympic Games, to name a few—but the race to space may have meant the most to Russian... Read More

This fair and comprehensive look at life in ancient China will prove to be an invaluable classroom aid. Carole P. Roman’s If You Were Me and Lived In … Ancient China offers a compact and comprehensive look at life during the Han... Read More

We know what you’re thinking: mail-order marriages involve socially challenged, disagreeable men and desperate foreign women. Well, you’re partly right. Even so, the four-hundred-year history of bride buying is complicated by the... Read More