The Courtyard by Benjamin Parket and Alexa Morris is a remarkable memoir about what happened to a specific Jewish family during the Holocaust. In this memoir, Bernard recounts how, at first, while living in Paris, he and his Polish-immigrant family only heard rumors of what was happening to...

In her memoir This is a Love Song: Thoughts from the B Side of a Gen X Life, Dina Honour describes daily walks with her husband during the COVID-19 pandemic as a way to leave their apartment and maintain a routine, then proceeds to step...

In his book The Black Wall Streets of America: Towards a Black Stock Exchange, Woody R. Clermont identifies thriving Black communities with diverse businesses, stating how Black-owned banks and credit unions offered loans that enabled homeownership and business growth. Informal savings groups in churches are...

David Tuch’s The Wireless Operator: The Untold Story of the British Sailor Who Invented the Modern Drug Trade is a narrative of 20th-century crime and politics. Blending investigative research with vivid storytelling, Tuch reconstructs the life of Harold Derber, born Hyman Tuchverderber in Manchester, who...

Has citizenship lost its meaning and become a mere convenience or transactional tool? Sebastian Saviano reflects on a growing concern that American citizenship is being devalued. The Allegiance Paradox focuses primarily on the issue of dual nationality, questioning whether this inherently leads to divided loyalty...

The Greatest Commander in Chief by Richard Collins offers an evaluation of United States presidents based on their military leadership during their time in office. As one of the largest economies and militaries in the world, the United States designates the president as the Commander-in-Chief...

What happens when the very people who are supposed to protect you choose to stay silent instead? The Village that Betrayed Its Children, written and told through the eyes of Karen Elizabeth Lee, is a powerful, painfully honest memoir that takes readers into a dark...

The Quiet Storm: A Historical and Cultural Analysis of the Power, Passion, and Pain of R&B Groups by Amani Roberts traces the evolution of major R&B vocal groups from the 1950s to the early 2000s, examining their origins, rise to fame, and eventual decline. Roberts...

The High by Albert Depas is a unique and colorful treasure. In this work, which features professional photographs and poems that capture fleeting moments, Depas explains the history of the 1.5-mile elevated linear park in New York City and highlights the beauty it offers. It...

The Strange Tools of Human Communication by Ruth Finnegan centers on communication as a multimodal phenomenon of voice, writing, and music. She traces alphabetic writing to Semitic proto-alphabets derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs, distinguishing it from pictographic systems that convey meaning visually across languages. Finnegan teaches...