NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 1, 2012
"A fascinating, nuanced social history."
In her debut, Davis (History/Georgia State Univ.) suggests that anti-Semitism and Prohibition were parallel expressions of political disquiet during the turn of the last century.
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NONFICTION
Released: Dec. 7, 2011
"A well-researched, skillfully written history."
A dual biography that also serves as a myth-busting history of Indian-Caucasian relationships within what became the continental United States.
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NONFICTION
Released: Dec. 6, 2011
"An impressive guide for teaching religious tolerance and respect to readers of all ages."
The Dalai Lama (
A Profound Mind: Cultivating Wisdom in Everyday Life, 2011, etc.) proposes an ethical approach to a happier existence that transcends religion.
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NONFICTION
Released: Dec. 5, 2011
"A mixture of sincerity, sensationalism and irony that alternately delights, informs and annoys."
A peripatetic journalist and the author of
The Geography of Bliss (2008) jets around the globe trying to find a religion that makes sense for him.
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NONFICTION
Released: Dec. 1, 2011
"More a double portrait than an account of a friendship, but a fascinating account of an unlikely relationship framed in a good deal of lightly sourced dual biography."
Veteran celebrity biographer Sandford (
Polanski, 2008, etc.) brings together two fierce yet mutually respectful antagonists on the subject of spiritualism.
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 15, 2011
"Political, economic and art history effectively combine with memoir to create a compelling story."
Australian art historian Bonyhady (Words for Country: Landscape & Language in Australia, 2001, etc.) revisits the lives and collections of several generations of his family, members of whom had to flee the Nazis.
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INDIE
Released: Nov. 15, 2011
"Too narrow in scope to provide a legitimate comparison between near-death experiences and organized Christianity."
NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 8, 2011
"Sure to raise contention, a strong dissenting voice from a burdened land where dissent is not simply tolerated, but a way of life."
A Jerusalem-based journalist presents his exegesis on how Israel came together and how he sees it coming apart.
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 8, 2011
"Once intriguingly controversial, Spong is now tediously irrelevant."
NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 2011
"An illuminating book."
NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 2011
"Few readers will fully agree with what Church represented, but all will find his story instructive and masterfully told."
NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 2011
"An interesting—and yes, comfortable—read, but fundamentalists of all stripes and those who cannot sit still for a long sermon may want to pass."
