Books

An actor who grew up in Phoenix is forced to face both the truths and the untruths about his family in a new novel, called "False Prophet."

YouTuber Peter Santenello has traveled to 85 countries and lived in five of them. But, for his first book, he turned his lens on his own country.

Dr. Octavio Rettig gave an unprecedented TEDx Talk in 2012, telling his own story of recovery from addiction to crack cocaine with an unusual treatment: Smoking the defense toxins of the Sonoran desert toad.

There was a 1958 film called “A Night to Remember” before the 1997 James Cameron blockbuster, a Tony Award winning musical and countless books. And, now you can immerse yourself in the disaster in a whole new way. “Titanic: Immersive Voyage” opened in Old Town Scottsdale last month.

Heather Hansman never had a lot of women to look up to — heroines whose stories she could emulate in recreation and conservation. So, she found them — and wrote about their trailblazing stories.

Lots of Arizonans do everything we can to avoid being in the sun — we search for covered parking or try to walk on the shady side of the street. If we can’t find shade, we wear hats or long shirts and pants to avoid sun exposure. And absent all of that, lots of us make sure to apply sunscreen.

Juliet Stromberg sees plants as her friends. The retired ASU researcher, plant ecologist and botanist loves climbing trees and she knows many of the ones on her property personally.

What can art from more than a century ago tell us about the future of the West? William R. Handley explores that question, and others, in his new book called "Horizons of Catastrophe in the American West."

The Atlantic’s latest bombshell headline is a stark one: It says “The End of Reading is Here.” The theory is we could be entering entering a postliterate society.

How do the spaces in which we spend our time impact our mindset? Leidy Klotz explores that question — and others — in his book "In a Good Place: How the Spaces Where We Live, Work and Play Can Help Us Thrive."