Julie Brill’s family memoir "Hidden in Plain Sight" is about her Holocaust-survivor father and her experiences learning about his life. Brill’s father was young when the Nazis attacked Belgrade. He survived the war on a farm outside... Read More

In T. L. Simpson’s absorbing novel "Cope Field", a student’s fast track to the big leagues changes when a community service project and a new friend give him the courage to ask hard questions. Craw, an ace pitcher whose teammates... Read More

Eduard Altarriba’s Politics, part of the My World series, introduces general concepts of politics and its component parts without focusing on specific forms of government. Though its discussions are high-level, it gives its audience... Read More

Timothy J. Heaphy, the lead investigator for the House Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack against democracy in the United States, shares important lessons from that experience in his fascinating, often disturbing... Read More

As a young woman in 1972, Liese Greensfelder took what was supposed to be a short-term summer job working on a sheep farm in the mountains of rural Norway. She recounts what happened instead in her engaging memoir "Accidental Shepherd".... Read More

A beautiful love letter to the power of reading, Katherine Paterson’s biography of Jella Lepman covers how she built a massive literary collection for the children of post–World War II Germany. Lepman endured the death of her World... Read More

With noir pacing, a laid-back sensibility, and a touch of humor, the newest book in Andy Weinberger’s Amos Parisman detective series, the cozy mystery novel "The Gonif" finds the elderly detective navigating a crime impacting the... Read More

Sally Symes’s colorful, child-friendly reference text "First Big Book of How" compiles dozens of scientific questions on topics ranging from human memory to space telescopes and dinosaur extinction. The questions are siphoned into six... Read More