Tim Newby’s biography of forgotten baseball great Pete Browning, whose Louisville Slugger nickname inspired the bat brand, recounts his athletic feats and troubled life. The repeat batting champion was one of the greatest hitters... Read More

Sharon Dilworth’s "To Be Marquette" is an absorbing coming-of-age novel about a woman’s freshman year in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. In the 1970s, Molly chooses a college in Marquette to escape the freeways and factories of her... Read More

Introducing telemedicine to doctors and patients in terms of its most significant benefits, "Skip the Waiting Room" is an informative health-care primer. Chris Rovin, Jared Sheehan, and Talib Omer’s forward-looking health-care book... Read More

Christine M. Larson’s "Love in the Time of Self-Publishing" uses the romance writing realm as a case study for how informal labor networks and mutual aid improve conditions for isolated workers. Guided by a survey of thousands of... Read More