Nonfiction

Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of our leading science writers who has a talent for making complicated ideas built of math and physics accessible to people who aren't experts in those fields.

The blood soaked epic rise of the Tudors from powerful family to self-made royalty is one of the great political dramas in history.

“a magnificent book that really fills in an overlooked period of World War II.”

“provides a firm foundation for understanding the effect the women’s movement had on the political process.”

War is never pretty, and in the case of Vietnam less so for a variety of reasons. Those who served there deserved better than we gave them when and since they came home.

“[has] great appeal as a cookbook of Mediterranean food par excellence.”

Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State, has worked for both presidents of the Bush clan, through the Gulf War and the Iraq provocation, and into the current presidential cabinet.

This timely publication addresses much of the misinformation about the trans community that persists despite increasing media coverage both popular and serious.

In her brilliant 1977 one-woman Broadway show entitled On Stage, Lily Tomlin performed a bit in which middle-aged married couple Lud and Marie discussed a cake that they had eaten, endless

“beautifully written narrative. . . . Menkedick is a writer to watch.”

“One of the greatest contributions of Judaism to the world is doing things for others. It is the reward of our lives.”
—Viktor Frankel, Holocaust survivor, author

“demonstrate[s] the war’s sheer and utter waste of life and resources even as the old mainland Europe monarchical order brought about its own demise.”