During the final decades of the Soviet Union, the country’s Jewish population was stuck in an impossible situation, unable to practice their religion and also forbidden to leave. Shaul Kelner’s "A Cold War Exodus" shows how a... Read More

"North Star" is an inspiring biography that recognizes the quiet heroism of its subject, a dedicated priest. In "North Star", Yukon Story Laureate John Firth delivers a compassionate portrait of Father Jean-Marie Mouchet, the French... Read More

"Marginal Man" is the thoughtful biography of a controversial but respected immigrant professor. Prompted by a promise to set the record straight about Emilio Goggio’s postwar reputation, "Marginal Man" is Paul Redvers Brown’s... Read More

Infusing engineering history with a sense of intrigue, "A History of the Murray Canal" lays bare the intricacies of the canal’s planning and construction. Dan Buchanan’s engaging history text "A History of the Murray Canal" is a... Read More

A historically insightful memoir, "The Shochet" trades between humorous and grave descriptions of rural Jewish life in nineteenth-century Ukraine. The engrossing memoir of a Hasidic Jew living under the yoke of Tsarist Russia, volume one... Read More

Lithuanian-Canadian Antanas Sileika’s memoir "The Death of Tony" is about moving between two worlds. Sileika’s parents fled Lithuania following the Soviet takeover in 1944. Sileika grew up outside of Toronto, where he had jaunty... Read More

Marie Carter’s cultural history text "Mortimer and the Witches" focuses on infamous fortune-tellers and the nineteenth-century New York cityscape they occupied. Mortimer Thomson wrote for a variety of newspapers under the pseudonym... Read More

Larry Heinzerling, Randy Herschaft, and Ann Cooper’s cultural history "Newshawks in Berlin" explores how the Associated Press operated during World War II. During the rise of the Nazi party in Germany, the Associated Press was a vital... Read More