A proud woman who was a child star is the last to understand the wounds her industry inflicted on her in the complex, haunting novel "The Case for Brandi Belden". A former child star grapples with the fallout from her past in William... Read More

A bevy of topics are handled with candor and in an intimate style in the good-natured memoir "Thoughts Like Buckshot". Edward Fahey’s memoir-in-essays "Thoughts Like Buckshot" ponders a range of subjects with both ruminative depth and... Read More

Iran’s turn-of-the-century transformations spur a young couple to risk their lives in the gripping historical novel "Silenced Whispers". In Afarin Ordubadi Bellisario’s intriguing historical novel "Silenced Whispers", a teenager... Read More

An American dentist is drawn into an investigation of a terrorist attack in Iran in the bombastic thriller "Disaster at Bushehr". When Israel is blamed for the bombing of an Iranian nuclear site, a small team of covert American... Read More

Flush with primary sources and seeking to hold rapists accountable in the wake of its subject’s death, "Hometown Betrayal" is a passionate true crime story about justice denied. Through family testimonies and meticulous research,... Read More

A precise and celebratory anthology, "The Neurodiversiverse" treats differences as strengths in science fiction settings. Edited by Anthony Francis and Liza Olmsted, "The Neurodiversiverse" is a science fiction anthology featuring short... Read More

The amusing Christmas picture book "If Mice Pulled the Sleigh" is a feast of wit and imagination. Bill Barnsley’s "If Mice Pulled the Sleigh" is a rollicking Christmas-themed picture book that imagines what would happen if other... Read More

A woman with mystical powers exposes Angelenos’ disunity on the basis of race, gender, and faith in the thoughtful novel "One Shining Soul". Wayne L. Wilson’s spellbinding novel "One Shining Soul" imagines how modern Americans would... Read More