Treating adaptability as an essential self-improvement tool at work and at home, Bend, Don’t Break is an encouraging self-help guide. Matt A. West’s piquing self-help book Bend, Don’t Break suggests that adaptability is the key to... 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 loyal team is on a noble quest to stop a villain’s dark plans in the intriguing fantasy novel "The Chalice of Echoes". Part of a continuing series, Steven W. Truelove’s involving fantasy novel "The Chalice of Echoes" follows a... Read More

In Jordana Globerman’s ambitious graphic novel "Soul Machine", a girl tries to protect a family business that supplies souls. After the disappearance of their father, Chloe and Lacey continue the family trade, spinning souls from a... Read More

In the intrepid, intimate essays of "Edge of the World", edited by Alden Jones, travel engenders realizations about self, society, and the value of queer community. Sixteen authors of diverse sexual orientations and genders contrast here... Read More

David Gessner’s engaging nature book "The Book of Flaco" is about an escaped owl and humanity’s impact on wild animals. Flaco, a Eurasian eagle-owl, lived in Central Park Zoo for thirteen years. In February 2023, people with... Read More

In the spirited historical novel "Fair Youth", the oft-debated “Oxfordian” theory of Shakespeare’s authenticity is explored with humor, verve, compassion, and irony. Lawrence Wells’s historical novel "Fair Youth" enlivens the... Read More

Katherine Leyton relates her pregnancy experiences to larger issues of femininity, parenthood, and bodily autonomy in her memoir "Motherlike". Leyton and her husband planned to have a child, but not quite so fast: when she learned she... Read More