Through its brief portraits of remarkable individuals, "Quiet Valor" issues a compelling argument for rethinking whom society chooses to remember. Larry Nouvel’s illuminating biographical compendium "Quiet Valor" celebrates a selection... Read More

Julie Marie Wade’s shrewd and winsome memoir Other People’s Mothers is about the gendered conventions of her 1980s and 1990s Seattle girlhood. Nine chapters, covering Wade’s life from the ages of six to thirteen, center... Read More

Nine revolving points of view sync with snippets of the national anthem in "Sixty Seconds", a captivating novel in which history unfolds moment by moment. In Steven Mayfield’s kinetic historical novel "Sixty Seconds", nine people... Read More

Nick Rees Gardner’s scathing short story collection captures lives of not-so-quiet desperation in the Rust Belt. These linked stories vivify Westinghouse, Ohio, an imaginary depressed Midwestern town wherein some people’s only... Read More

Following a family’s work to overcome the impacts of addiction, "A Roll of the Dice" is a discomfiting memoir about losing a relationship to vice. Kelly Delaney’s memoir "A Roll of the Dice" is about the exasperating impacts of... Read More

"Welcome to My Garden" is a poignant scrapbook of life reflections and guidance for the next generation. Brian Murray’s musing book "Welcome to My Garden" compiles a father’s advice to his children. A paean to parenthood, the book... Read More

"The Great Cyprus Think Tank" is a lighthearted novel that pokes fun at imperialism and the exoticization of others. In Larry Lockridge’s satirical novel "The Great Cyprus Think Tank", frivolous academics undertake a mission to... Read More

An often sad and always compelling novel in short stories, Thomas H. McNeely’s "Pictures of the Shark" follows Buddy, tracking the echoes of his parents’ broken marriage as they reverberate through his coming-of-age. In “Snow,... Read More