February 4, 2025
In this memoir, Julia Giacomelli describes her marriage to Italian-born Franco and their adventures as they live first in Venice and later in New Zealand.
The memoir opens in 1968 with the New Zealand native traveling to Venice to marry Franco, an Italian man who had swept her off her feet the year before. The […]
January 14, 2025
Fredrick Pumroy’s memoir tells the life story of a daredevil compelled to flirt with danger.
At age 8, Pumroy flew loops and rolls with his father in a small aircraft trainer high above the family’s Indiana farm. Risk-taking continued throughout Pumroy’s teens as he rode a motorcycle, speed-jumping moguls down rough country roads. In college, […]
January 6, 2025
While Mexico may be known for its tequila, this beautifully photographed book, chockful of information, introduces readers to the high-quality Mexican wines of Valle de Guadalupe, Guanajuato and Queretaro.
This is the fourth in a series on notable wine regions in the U.S. and abroad. With the author as tour guide and photographer, the journey […]
January 6, 2025
This reissue of Harvey’s previous release confronts, with thoughtful compassion, the difficult questions that Christian believers are often challenged to answer.
Harvey, a computer scientist by training, begins by arguing that religious belief can be compatible with science, using logical reasoning. His narrative is both a rebuttal to certain scientific theories like natural selection and […]
December 30, 2024
A U.S. Army veteran-turned-academic tells the incredible story of his stint in Iraq during the second Gulf War.
Military memoirs, writes Mark L. Stoneman, are usually of two types: those by the best of the best, such as a Navy SEAL, or those “by observers with an axe to grind but no real expertise.” He […]
January 10, 2024
Elizabeth Standish offers a look at a young woman trying to figure out her future in her new adult novel, Magnificent Mess.
Emma, a recent college graduate, doesn’t know what she wants to do with her life. Despite having no desire to study or practice law, she enters the University of Denver Law School because […]