• Escaping polygamist cults
• Mormon history
• Communes and cults in the 19th century
• The inner lives of women
• Real people, real jobs, real lives
• Queens and queenship
• Complicated wives and mothers
• Black women’s friendships
• Generating interest in the Western genre
• Black family dynamics
• Multiculturalism and the role of culture in our lives
• People who left life-defining ideologies
• Crime books that explode into larger worlds
• Heroes journeys set in the outdoors and wilderness
• Meeting fascinating historical figures
• Exposés to keep you reading past midnight
• Why sex matters to US history
• Paranormal and Native American mysticism mystery