The Lightning Tamers by Kathy Joseph is the history of the men and women who have worked with electricity, from discovering its existence to its place in our modern life. The book begins with the early realization of what electricity is and how it was...

The Tribal Instinct and the Yearning to Belong by Anthony T. Cluff is an insightful exploration of humanity's deep-seated inclination toward tribalism. Cluff proposes that our instinctual drive for unity and belonging influences various aspects of life including politics, sports, religion, and social interactions. He...

The Gang of Three: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle by Neel Burton should be required reading for any college class in philosophy. This is the best book on philosophy I have ever read, and I have four master’s degrees. Neel gives a fantastic overview of the pre-Socratic...

The Buster Clan: An American Saga by K.P. Kollenborn is a deep dive into the author’s family history and the ancestors who were, in their small way, a part of shaping and building the United States. Using stories, legends, and sometimes myths from his family’s...

The Shaolin Temple Story: Explore Shaolin History, Culture, Kung Fu, and Chán (Zen) Tradition by James Martin is a stunning depiction of how the temple plays a role in the traditions, history, and culture of China. This book explores a personal connection with the Shaolin...

The Preventorium is a memoir by Susan Annah Currie of being separated from her family after being deemed at high risk of contracting tuberculosis and being moved to the Magee Preventorium in Mississippi. Currie's story begins at the end of the 1950s when she...

The Fake Fall of Rome by Bruce Shoemaker is a short but comprehensive book where we are presented with the history of humanity from a very different perspective from the one we know. After studying the subject for 15 years, Shoemaker explains how 96 percent...

The Ones Who Remember: Second-Generation Voices of the Holocaust is a work of non-fiction in the historical, human interest, cultural, and memoir subgenres. It is best suited to the general adult reading audience due to some upsetting content and harrowing reading material and was edited...

Some stories can only be understood if you see the images of the people who lived them. This is the case of the 65th Infantry Regiment, whose story is told in The Borinqueneers by Noemí Figueroa Soulet. Through the hundreds of illustrations of this magnificent...

The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers by Susan Hall is the third volume in the series, dealing with killers from M to S. Part of a four-volume series, this is a compendium of some of the world’s worst serial killers, including Richard Ramirez, the Night...