A gay high school senior confronts the tragic murder of his beloved in Mason Stokes’s novel All the Truth I Can Stand. Ash, still grieving his deceased mother, joins the backstage of his local college’s Oklahoma! production. He... Read More

Suggesting means of balancing between delight, satisfaction, and excitement in one’s working life, Don’t Settle is an encouraging professional discernment guide. George Appling’s shrewd business guide Don’t Settle recommends... Read More

Stephanie Anderson’s fascinating essay collection "From the Ground Up" is about the women who are pioneering change in the field of regenerative agriculture. Recalling how the US’s food system collapsed during the early days of... Read More

Métis storyteller Chris La Tray’s expansive memoir "Becoming Little Shell" began as a compassionate inquiry into his father’s rejection of the family’s Native American heritage. Haunted by questions of identity after his... Read More

A girl resists the limits imposed by her class and gender, daring to seek a new kind of life (with some supernatural help), in Sacha Lamb’s wonder-filled historical novel "The Forbidden Book". In a shtetl whose rabbi possesses a text... Read More

"We Had Fun and Nobody Died" is Amy T. Waldman’s adventure-filled biography of music promoter Peter Jest, who brought legendary rock and folk acts to Milwaukee. Before he became well-known in the music industry, Jest was a prankster... Read More

Michelle M. Nickerson’s "Spiritual Criminals" is a gripping account of the Camden 28, Catholic war protesters who burglarized a federal building and were acquitted in a well-publicized trial in the early 1970s. While eight members of... Read More

Alisa Alering’s alluring novel "Smothermoss" enters the bloodstream of Appalachian storytelling like a fevered dream, unraveling the intergenerational tales of women living on the edge. Half-sisters born five years apart, Sheila and... Read More