INTERESTING LOOK AT how ideas, products, and media “go viral,” with in-depth data from studies and interviews.

A GENEALOGICAL MYSTERY, UNRAVELED, reveals much about US ideas of race.  Thought-provoking and engaging.

TOUCHING, POETIC MEMOIR of a life spent studying a group of endangered orcas in Alaska. Vivid, impassioned.

FASCINATING STORIES OF the lives of the Russian aristocracy, from the eve of revolution to later reprisals.

QUIRKY MEDITATIONS ON love and loss throughout history, and in the writer’s personal life. Entertaining!

COMPELLING, DEEPLY RESEARCHED history of racial segregation and integration in the US military. Eye-opening!

ENTERTAINING COLLECTION OF Jon Ronson’s diffident-gonzo interviews with unusual types, from robots to psychics.

GHANA’S PRESIDENT DELIGHTS, educates with a charming, insightful memoir about his country and its changes.

ELOQUENT, COMPASSIONATE WORK by a Polish physician and researcher links medicine with the arts and humanities.

REAL LIFE ADVENTURE in the jungles of Honduras as a journalist searches for the fabled, long lost White City.