Naturopath and medical herbalist Nicola Lincoln’s self-help book "Be Your Own Best Friend" is about developing positive habits and caring for one’s mental, emotional, and physical health. This handbook on holistic well-being includes... Read More

In Ludwig Volbeda’s intimate novel "Self Portrait", a lovesick teenager grapples with their self-image. During a school break, Jip struggles with their art class assignment. Between their attic bedroom sketches and... Read More

Molly Gaudry’s "Fit Into Me" is a hybrid book that challenges notions of the self, authenticity, reliability, appropriation, and truth. This multigenre work—both a novel-within-a-memoir and a memoir-within-a-novel—follows the... Read More

Randi Minetor’s wildlife guide is for those who live in urban areas; it suggests best practices for coexisting with one’s wild neighbors. Featuring a menagerie including squirrels, bears, and geese, the book covers the difficulties... Read More

A young bird staves off mass destruction in the fantastical graphic novel Haru Book 3: Fall. Haru, a bird who’s unable to fly, meets his apparent death at the hands of Blight, a corrupted force bent on ravaging the world. Caught in the... Read More

Tal Ben-Shahar’s encouraging self-help book is about why people’s efforts to change so often fail. It suggests strategies for turning failure and frustration into success, well-being, and fulfillment. Asserting that failures to make... Read More

In Harry Mathews’s literary novel "The Conversions", stories nest, esoterica abound, sentences fail, and gibberish is spoken. A beguiling unnamed narrator with distinguished connections and intellectual leanings attends a gathering... Read More

Sara Gothelf Bloom’s sophisticated novel-in-vignettes "Just Enough to Start Over" is about an artistic German Jewish family in exile from the Nazis. There are three Dubrovsky sisters: Bertha, a talented musician; Annelene, a gifted... Read More