Harrowing and timely, Paula Becker’s A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction is a poignant parenting memoir detailing the ripple effect of addiction. For over a decade, Becker and her husband struggled to walk the... Read More

Since his bout with throat cancer three-plus years ago, Editor-in-Chief Matt Sutherland has been hot to discover new books on cancer prevention. Well aware that cancer loves nothing more than to aggressively reappear, Matt reviews the... Read More

Moonlocket / Peter Bunzl / Jolly Fish Press / Softcover $12.99 (384pp) / 978-1-63163-375-1 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / Peril and Victorian steampunk meld in Peter Bunzl’s winsome middle grade novel, Moonlocket.... Read More

FOREWORD’S LIT HIT—INDIE BOOKS THAT’LL BLOW YOU AWAY / An inventive take on WWII nonfiction, Ronald Weber’s Dateline—Liberated Paris: The Hotel Scribe and the Invasion of the Press focuses on the Allied reporters who swept... Read More

The Friendship Lie / Rebecca DonnellyRamona Kaulitzki, illustrator / Capstone / Hardcover $15.95 (272pp) / 978-1-68446-061-8 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / Cora, her twin brother Kyle, and their friend Sybella have... Read More

Diversity brings about lots of exciting changes to a population, and those of us who embrace a multicultured, pluralist society believe that our lives would be boring without continuous influx and blending of different cultures. In a... Read More

FOREWORD’S LIT HIT—INDIE BOOKS THAT’LL BLOW YOU AWAY / Ever wish you could tell a child to take a deep breath? William Meyer does just that in his children’s book Big Breath: A Guided Meditation for Kids, a short volume that... Read More

Who among us wouldn’t benefit from a long stint in a Japanese Buddhist temple—sitting quietly, tending lotus plants and koi, eating honest food? For many wired-up Americans with chatterboxes for brains, the thought of such a retreat... Read More