"Woman, Watching" is Merilyn Simonds’s account of the remarkable life and legacy of Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, the amateur ornithologist and author who has been called “the Canadian Rachel Carson.” Born into Sweden’s landed... Read More

In 1971, Anthony Scaduto’s Bob Dylan became the first investigative biography of the greatest modern songwriter, examining his formative years in the New York folk scene and the evolution of his musical style and persona. Scaduto... Read More

Stereotypes of brutish, unintelligent Neanderthals are pulverized by Rebecca Wragg Sykes in her tender, absorbing profile of our hominin cousins. "Kindred" is a comprehensive review of the most up-to-date theories and technological... Read More

In Charles A. Bush’s young adult novel "Every Variable of Us", Alexis, a high school basketball star, dreams of receiving a college scholarship and pursuing a professional basketball career. Both are her ticket out of West... Read More

In S. A. Patrick’s fantasy novel "A Darkness of Dragons", a delinquent boy turns into a hero as he embarks on a quest to stop a notorious villain. Thirteen-year-old Patch was a promising piping apprentice. For years, he trained to... Read More

Childhood nostalgia and resentment coalesce into a once-in-a-lifetime adventure in Josh Winning’s novel "The Shadow Glass". To the world, Jack’s father Bob was the beloved, eccentric creator of "The Shadow Glass", a 1980s fantasy... Read More

There are satisfying, unpredictable narrative leaps in the Hitchcock-evocative, fantastical novel "American Faust", in which a romance proves ill-fated. In Richard Brown Jr.’s enigmatic novel "American Faust", an entrepreneur makes a... Read More