Empathetic and persuasive, the memoir "Traveling Solo" shares an end-of-life story alongside a cautionary tale about avoiding the false promise of phony cures. Written in anticipation of her planned death, Diana E. Williams’s memoir... Read More
In the tragicomic novel "Poor Tom", a distressed man muses through a series of what-ifs on his way to a delayed coming-of-age. In Martin Drapkin’s novel "Poor Tom", a middle-aged man muddles through his relationships with the help of... Read More
Lucianne Tonti’s "Sundressed" is a sustainable living book that reenvisions people’s relationships with their clothes. In the age of mass production of cheap clothes, this book aims to reconnect people with the origins of what they... Read More
Brimming with life lessons, Let’s Be Frank is the informative memoir of an entertainment executive. Frank Biondi, a former CEO of HBO, Viacom, and Universal Studios, was a prominent figure in shaping the modern entertainment industry,... Read More
The fantastical drama "Politicians in Purgatory" sets the Cold War’s most prominent instigators and participants into conversation with each other. Cold War-era politicians face judgment in Kirsten E. A. Borg’s fantasy novel... Read More
With a keen sense of human dignity, "Sacred Bundles Unborn" balances horrific accounts of forced sterilization with academic analyses. Edited by Morningstar Mercredi, the powerful essay collection "Sacred Bundles Unborn" presents a... Read More
"Children and Complex Trauma" is a powerful book that suggests means of creating strong relational networks to support children’s recovery and resilience. Chuck Geddes’s psychologically astute book "Children and Complex Trauma" draws... Read More
"Steel" is an intimate coming-of-age story set in a gritty northern Minnesota mining town in the 1920s. The town, made up of poor immigrant families—mainly Italians, Croatians, and Scandinavians—has as its sustenance the world’s... Read More