In an imagined letter to her father, Arisa White writes, “Do you remember, I bear the name you conjured, its attention turned to your shorelines, to the father missing in us both?” Though he never answers, White travels to Guyana,... Read More

Often fiery and always authentic, the poems collected in "Feed the White Wolf" are fearless in addressing addiction and mental illness. Patrick Lahey’s poetic memoir "Feed the White Wolf" is about surviving addiction. Following a loose... Read More

When a teacher takes her life, an unnamed narrator proves determined to ensure that her story is not lost to memory. Driven more by psychology than its plot, "The Teacher" is a chronology-jumping character study about the individual... Read More

"The Worst First Day" is an accessible history of segregation and racism that encourages critical thinking. In 1957, the simple act of going to high school transformed Elizabeth Eckford into a nationally recognized figure. She and her... Read More

The book shatters the mirror of traditional literary models, and holds the cold, sharp shards, shining, up to the light. Literary fireworks abound in Peter Quinones’s "Postmodern Deconstruction Madhouse", a cosmopolitan collection of... Read More

Writing is clipped and punchy; at times, it intentionally obfuscates, and its gory details are sure to set stomachs churning. Nicholas Day’s short story collection "Now That We’re Alone" is a bizarre mix of makeshift golems, ghosts,... Read More

Straightforward, descriptive poems evocatively search for meaning. William Yager’s poetry collection "Traveling Through" combines ruminations on life in the modern age with odes to God and the natural world. Yager contextualizes the... Read More

Beginning investors stand to glean a great deal from these useful, clear, and practical lessons. A concise primer written in plain language, "The Mind and the Stock Market" will improve the financial and emotional literacy of new... Read More