"Catahoula" is a humorous coming-of-age story that reminisces on a community’s past. Bobby Franklin’s entertaining and refreshing young adult novel "Catahoula" follows the escapades of two brothers living in central Louisiana. It is... Read More

An intimate yet sprawling chronicle of life in Iran before and during its revolutionary years in the late seventies, Rabeah Ghaffari’s "To Keep the Sun Alive" presents the nation’s monumental changes from the perspective of a small... Read More

The novel captures the tumult of teenage life as it skirts around encounters with mysterious creatures. In Jen Ritchie’s supernatural fantasy novel Forbidden Secrets, teenager Twyla Sokolovski confronts her hidden past and discovers... Read More

Raw, visceral, and direct from the creator’s id comes "The Clandestinauts" by Tim Sievert, a graphic novel about a group of Dungeons & Dragons–style adventurers. The juxtaposition of those elements is refreshing and... Read More

By centering on a career officer who’s worked almost every district of the city, the book offer a bird’s-eye view of just about every situation imaginable in New Orleans. Scott D. Fenner’s historical novel "Dreux Club Blues" brings... Read More

Kirk Kjeldsen’s "The Depths" takes a woman on the edge and pushes her farther, resulting in a dark, engaging, and contemplative thriller. After a series of miscarriages and marriage woes, Eden Lenaerts plans a Malaysian getaway with... Read More

Through both its lyrics and prose, "Songs from an Imperfect Life" is a memoir that mixes tragedy with happy memories to achieve a sense of thoughtful reflection. J. Ronald M. York’s memoir "Songs from an Imperfect Life" works through... Read More

In the poignant "No Sad Songs", teenage Gabe is not particularly popular. He loves baseball and poetry. His best friend is John. And his grandfather lives with his family and suffers from dementia. Gabe’s occasional responsibilities to... Read More