Karen Bloom Gevirtz’s compelling history book The Apothecary’s Wife covers the commodification of medicine and the sidelining of women in medical history. In the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, the Scientific... Read More

Reporter Jen Stout’s "Night Train to Odesa" is a heartbreaking memoir about the Ukrainian people’s fight to survive a relentless war. Offered a journalism scholarship in Moscow, Stout arrived in Russia during Putin’s regime. When... Read More

"We Had Fun and Nobody Died" is Amy T. Waldman’s adventure-filled biography of music promoter Peter Jest, who brought legendary rock and folk acts to Milwaukee. Before he became well-known in the music industry, Jest was a prankster... Read More

A recovering alcoholic considers what to do about his family’s secrets in Morgan Talty’s affecting novel "Fire Exit". Charles was raised on the Penobscot Island Indian Reservation by his Native American stepfather, but that doesn’t... Read More

"Escaping Nature" is an illuminating, practical resource that summarizes the potential threats of climate change and recommends actionable steps to prepare and respond. While most books on climate change call for sweeping global and... Read More

"The Power of Conscious Connection" is an uplifting leadership guidebook about nurturing habits and skills to attain business-oriented enlightenment. CEO Talia Fox’s helpful guidebook "The Power of Conscious Connection" enumerates four... Read More

With a small group of fellow explorers, Leon McCarron followed the Tigris River from its mountainous source to its mouth at the Persian Gulf. His travelogue, "Wounded Tigris", is a brilliant record of latter-day Mesopotamia and the... Read More

Set in the early 1960s, Edward Cahill’s intriguing novel "Disorderly Men" concerns the aftermath of a police raid on a Greenwich Village gay bar. Sophisticated and “gray-flanneled” Roger is a World War II veteran, husband, and... Read More