Book Reviews

Editor of the Library of America edition of the “Little House” books, Caroline Fraser won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for “Prairie Fires,” her comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder.

The story of Father Hartley’s missionary work in the cane fields of the Dominican Republic is presented in the engaging book “Slaves in Paradise” by Jesus Garcia. Originally published in Spanish in 2012, the work has been recently translated and published in the U.S. by Ignatius Press.

If you’re the type of person to ever wonder why the word “disgruntled” is commonplace, but calling someone “gruntled” decidedly less so, “Angels, Barbarians and Nincompoops” offers a rollicking ride through the forgotten histories of everyday words.

Mary Haseltine’s debut book titled “Made for This: The Catholic Mom’s Guide to Birth,” draws on St. John Paul II’s theology of the body to show that childbirth is an essential part of who God created women to be, body and soul.

For more than 50 years, the writings of retired Pope Benedict XVI on the relationship between faith and politics have insisted that the measure of human freedom is the extent to which each person acknowledges being dependent on the love of God, Pope Francis wrote.

High school baseball in a small Midwestern town is the main theme of this engaging novel that baseball fans — especially Catholics — will enjoy.

In the book, “The Way of Catechesis: Exploring Our History, Renewing Our Ministry,” Gerard F. Baumbach explains the history of catechesis starting with the Old Testament through to the present day.

Are you a Catholic hipster? Are you a bespectacled foodie, black skinny jeans and Chucks-wearing Catholic “sneaking a peek at your breviary app during your work meeting,” as the book teases?