The enduring lesson of all wars, reinforced in Vietnam and more recently in Iraq and Afghanistan, is that tours of duty do not end with the return home. Indeed, as Stuart Nicholls shows in this compelling fictional memoir, home may no... Read More

In the best of circumstances, juvenile justice treads a tenuous path between punishment and rehabilitation. In 2009, a scandal broke in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, that showed how precarious this route could be when Judge Mark A.... Read More

When Ann Richards was elected governor of Texas in 1991, she ushered in a “New Texas” by appointing large numbers of women and minorities to government positions. True to Richards’s feminism and progressivism, she “let the people... Read More

In Zulu folklore, the Tokelosh Man is an evil spirit that wreaks havoc on the lives of those it possesses. Surely the Tokelosh Man has cursed Spencer, the novel’s protagonist. A well-regarded physical education teacher, Spencer loses... Read More

For ten years, Gwynn Davies has been a BMW motorcycle mechanic, and Moon Tanning: Motorcycles, Mechanics, Mayhem, a collection of eighteen stories, is inspired by his work at a dealership in Victoria, Canada. He describes the... Read More

No two men captured the zeitgeist of Gilded Age America more than Mark Twain, the cultural icon, and Theodore Roosevelt, the political one, claims the author in this dual biography and narrative history of 1890-1910. Although this was... Read More

Life for the son of the nation’s most beloved and likely greatest president was full of challenges, yet Robert Todd Lincoln (1843-1926) embraced his circumstances and thrived in business, public service, and family life. Certainly, the... Read More

Life as we know it ceases on death row. Instead, DR prisoners struggle to survive in what one-time inmate, now paroled, Donnie Crawford calls “timeless time,” a surreal existence of suspended life that begins with the death sentence... Read More