Scott Chaskey’s elegant and spirited essay collection "Soil and Spirit" concerns the interconnectedness of elements and life forms. Studded with literary quotes, poetry, personal anecdotes, and scenes from a well-traveled life, these... Read More

Noting that camping rocketed in popularity during COVID-19, "Making Camp" explores the history of recreational camping, from its nineteenth-century Adirondack beginnings through to the present. With an abundance of vintage illustrations... Read More

"Still Positive" is a frank, insightful memoir about living with an HIV diagnosis. Julie Lewis’s appealing memoir "Still Positive" covers decades of living with a chronic illness; it includes advice for survivors alongside a detailed... Read More

"Serving Herself" is Ashley Brown’s impressive biography of Althea Gibson, a multifaceted trailblazer in sports. Gibson was a sports prodigy whose drive and career path bewildered her working-class family. She had to take side gigs to... Read More

Filled with dramatic, often violent, seventeenth-century court and clergy intrigues, Bronwen McShea’s "La Duchesse" is meticulous—the “first fully researched modern biography of Vignerot.” Vignerot would have been a minor rural... Read More

Though Charles Darwin is the more celebrated founder of theories of evolution and natural selection, his brilliant colleague Alfred Russel Wallace worked out these ideas, too. James T. Costa’s entertaining illustrated biography marks... Read More

Olga Onuch and Henry E. Hale’s "The Zelensky Effect" is part biography of the charismatic president, part sociopolitical history of Ukraine from its 1991 independence to the recent Russian invasion—“more fundamentally about... Read More

Knowing the difficulties involved in documenting enslaved people’s lives, Nancy Koester made multiple trips to sites where Sojourner Truth lived and traveled; she also analyzed her dictated letters, speeches, and newspaper accounts in... Read More