When the World Dies by D.E. Davis captures various evil deeds that have occurred in the 20th and 21st centuries as a result of the rise in totalitarianism and total war. The First World War was the first major world war, which cost millions of...

Denise Thompson-Slaughter’s memoir Since You Weren’t There & Other Memories charts her personal path through the social landscape of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. She recounts explicit moments such as her teenage uncles shooting rats from a Kenilworth dining-room window, buying Little Golden Books at...

From Kiev to Moscow traces how Russian rule changed its meaning as political life moved from medieval Kiev to Moscow. Meletios Semertzides presents Kiev as a society where a prince’s power still had to answer to public custom shaped by Christian duty and town approval....

Donna Hills Patrick and Raymond Hills’s The Town I Crow About is an honest window into the real history of East Millstone, New Jersey. It takes us through the memories of a man who lived there for over ninety years. The book relies on raw...

Too many Americans see Washington, DC, as simply a political hot mess, yet there is so much more to our nation’s capital. Author Ken Wilcox makes this abundantly clear in Ultimate DC: Travel, Walk, Explore. In it, he shares his love and knowledge of the...

Ari Schneider’s Stolen Headstones is a compelling memoir where the author reconstructs his grandfather Louis’ actual experiences during the Holocaust by cross-referencing family documents with official international archive data. The book details how Louis fabricated heroic stories about shooting soldiers and eating rodents to mask...

Great Works and Me by Richard Fallquist is a unique resource that stems from the author’s own desire to learn more about ‘the great works.’ From literature to art, and everything in between, each chapter features curated lists and summaries that provide a rich basis...

Listening to Chopin While Fighting Nazis by Alex Charns brings together a novella and a memoir about a Polish-American family's multigenerational battle against fascism. The first part, Twenty Angels on Her Roof, is a fictional story set during World War II in Poland. It follows...

Make Up Your Mind, What Do You Want? by R.A. Dillow shares the life of Dillow's father, Donald, a Minnesota farm boy who learns adulthood through paid work after a childhood where major lessons were left unsaid. Raised as one of nine children on a...

China Time by Jeff Pepper is a fascinating exploration of how ancient Chinese civilization understood, measured, and organized time. Rather than focusing solely on clocks and calendars, the book examines the cultural, scientific, philosophical, and practical systems that shaped the Chinese view of hours, days,...