Robin Hemley’s erudite essay collection "Borderline Citizen" probes the meaning of nationality. Profiling enclaves and exclaves, overseas territories, and displaced people, the essays reveal the human and environmental costs of... Read More

Jim Kristofic grew up tracking “the trail of animals while ranging in the wilderness … where narrative intelligence started in humans.” His memoir, "Reservation Restless", acts as another chapter in a long string of human stories.... Read More

Family abuse and the complex secrets surrounding it are at the heart of Michael J. Malone’s new thriller In the Absence of Miracles. John is struggling to live a normal life. He teaches at a local high school and spends time with... Read More

Michael Lanning’s "The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson" reveals that, more than ten years before Rosa Parks’s refusal to move to the back of the bus, a young black army officer also defied such an order. For taking that stand and... Read More

John Hemming’s "People of the Rainforest" is the intense, enlightening story of the three Villas Boas brothers, whose commitment to justice within Brazil’s Amazon led to vast expanses of that land being preserved for Indigenous... Read More

France’s Louis XIV, known as “The Sun King,” has long been an enigma. On the one hand, he was visionary, practical, and probably the greatest patron of the arts the world has ever known. On the other, he was ruthless, vain,... Read More

In Jamie Foley’s "Emberhawk", a young woman escapes into enemy territory, hoping to save her people; there, she faces the prices of pride and of faith in an unstable deity. Driven by unceasing drought and her mother’s untreatable... Read More

In "Of Green Stuff Woven", theology and pragmatism butt heads, with the fate of the prairie and a Des Moines cathedral hanging in the balance. Brigid, who’s the dean of a historic cathedral, has a crisis on her hands. Her Episcopal... Read More