In the eclectic short stories of "A Robin Waits", motley characters face life-changing challenges in distinct places and times. The short stories of Kirk Ward Robinson’s cross-genre collection "A Robin Waits" focus on the diverse,... Read More

Steeped in folklore and the supernatural, "Under the Cottonwood Tree" is a wonderful story about a group of children who try to save themselves and their village by convincing a once-helpful curandera to renounce her wicked ways. A... Read More

Bayard Rustin was an important leader in the civil rights movement, but his accomplishments are at times forgotten. Jacqueline Houtman, Michael Long, and Walter Naegle, Rustin’s widowed partner, work to correct that with "Troublemaker... Read More

Rebecca Solnit wants you to act. She wants you to abandon naive cynicism and reject resting in anger. She wants you to engage the issues and go about the hard work of effecting change. And she believes that you can do it. Given the fiery... Read More

Delving into fractured families, hoarded secrets, and the cultural and personal negotiations at the heart of the Asian American experience, May-lee Chai’s "Useful Phrases for Immigrants" is distinguished by writing as elegant and... Read More

"The Fix" is a short but powerful book with the force of a right hook or a squeezed-off bullet. Robert Downs’s "The Fix" is a breakneck noir thrill ride wherein the booze flows freely, the bullets fly, and the casinos exude despair.... Read More

"Thoughts in Writing" collects raw, exuberant poetry that speaks to the human condition with sincerity. Apphia Patten’s "Thoughts in Writing" is a searching collection of poetry that plumbs the author’s ideas about life, love,... Read More

This is an important book from a uniquely informed source on a critical and timely topic. "Beyond Snowden", written by Timothy H. Edgar, a civil liberties lawyer who had a ringside view of development of government surveillance programs,... Read More