“Dancing with the Dragon” documents the improbable journey of an American entrepreneur from the office parks of north Texas to the oilfields of northwest China in a remarkable quest to bring cleaner energy to the China’s new territories, pioneer profitable US-China business partnerships, and eventually right the wrongs he suffered at the hands of the government of the People’s Republic (PRC)—and the Communist Party (CPC)—of China.

Based on true events and firsthand accounts, Jenevein is a speaker worth hearing. It is a topic that is timely and relevant to what is happening right now between US-China relations. As CEO of Pointe Bello, he works with the highest levels of government and commercial bodies on the People’s Republic of China economic statecraft activity worldwide.

Herein lies a new understanding of perhaps the greatest movie star of our time and his Oscar-winning wife—a couple many admired but few really knew—from the perspective of the man himself.

Moving between late 1990s small-town Texas to pre-World War II Japan and occupied Tokyo, an emotionally engaging literary debut about a grandmother and granddaughter who connect over a beloved lost place and the secrets they both carry.

Dana Harkey reviews this history of three visionaries who took great risks, forging new paths for the women who followed in their footsteps. Julie Satow’s stylish account, rich with personal drama and trade secrets, captures the department store in all its glitz, decadence, and fun, and showcases the women who made that beautifully curated world go round.

Private investigator Dylan Fisher is approached by his ex-wife Rose Doucette, a star homicide detective, with a request: Investigate a case off the books, one the police brass want classified as a suicide, but Rose believes to be a murder. Still hurt over Rose’s abrupt departure from their marriage, Dylan refuses but finds himself part of the case when Rose is murdered, and Dylan framed as the suspect. When Rose’s current husband—Tito, the defense attorney who broke up their marriage—is threatened as well, Dylan and Tito form an alliance, pooling their knowledge about the woman they both loved in order to discover who is responsible for her murder.

In 1799, at the behest of President George Washington, Patrick Henry came out of retirement to defend the Constitution that he had once opposed and to thwart Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, whom Washington accused of putting party over country and threatening the fragile union. “For the People, For the Country” tells the remarkable story of how the most eloquent public speaker of the American Revolutionary era and a leading antifederalist during debates over ratification of the Constitution reemerged on the side of the federalists and once again changed history.

“Teddy and Booker T.” (written by Brian Kilmeade in 2021) tells the remarkable story of how two American heroes rose to meet the crisis of their day, racial segregation and institutional oppression that threatened to jeopardize the stability of the United States itself.

The alliance between President Teddy Roosevelt and educator Booker T. Washington was unlikely—one was born into a privileged family and the other was born a slave. Both were born in 1858. Despite their wildly different beginnings, the life events of these two giants were eerily parallel and their paths converged at a crucial moment in American history.

What happened in the White House in 1901 would change the course of race relations forever. Yet, most people at the time were indifferent to the substance of their meeting. They were more concerned that it had happened in the family dining room of the White House.

More than 100 years later, John McCain reminded the world of that dinner meeting in the White House while giving his election concession speech after losing to Barack Obama. McCain remarked that that controversial dinner in 1901 set in motion what would become the presidency of the first Black man in American history in 2008.