The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton Wharton’s elegantly savage prose is directed not so much at overturning or restructuring social conventions as it is at reform. Read More
The Price of Valor The Life of Audie Murphy, America's Most Decorated Hero of World War II by David A. Smith Murphy set a powerful and public example for troubled veterans. Read More
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Anne Frank—a girl who in many ways was remarkably ordinary, but who dreamed of leaving behind a legacy as a... Read More
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning by Nigel Biggar Ethicist Nigel Biggar of Oxford University painstakingly addresses each of the anti-colonialist accusations in turn as they pertain to the... Read More
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray A novel about J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to... Read More
Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers by Joseph Lash Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers, by Joseph Lash Read More
The Oceans and the Stars A Sea Story, A War Story, A Love Storyby Mark Helprin Reviewed by Michael F. Bishop Read More
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious Originally published in 1956, it achieved success because of the American public’s growing desire to escape from the artificial conformity... Read More
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou First published in 1969, Angelou recounts the experiences of a young girl growing up in the rural Deep South. Read More