Linda Cracknell’s captivating memoir concerns her inherited personal connection to the waters of coastal Scotland and England. As an inspired Christmas present in 2015, Cracknell and her siblings gave their somewhat housebound, elderly... Read More

A depressed man learns much from his otherworldly experiences in the allegorical novel "Everything You Leave Behind". Weston Hayes Walker’s speculative novel "Everything You Leave Behind" is about a depressed man who witnesses pivotal... Read More

On a planet where people are kept as pets, human consciousness reemerges in the eerie science fiction novel "Kobo". In Richard Allen’s disturbing science fiction novel "Kobo", human empathy, intelligence, and cruelty are mirrored in an... Read More

Couples therapist Isabelle Morley’s enlightening relationship guide They’re Not Gaslighting You is about understanding human behavior through a clinical lens. Addressing the widespread inappropriate use of clinical terminology in... Read More

An enchanting photograph of an Indigenous girl centers Martha A. Sandweiss’s history book "The Girl in the Middle", a tale of westward expansion. In 1868, Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner arranged the peace commissioners of... Read More

A sweet, anxious agender teenager comes into their own while facing new challenges in the involving novel "Ugliest". Kelly Vincent’s novel "Ugliest" is the earnest continuation of an agender Oklahoma teenager’s coming-of-age story.... Read More

"Lady Garland Tames Her Dragons and Brings Peace to the Kingdom" is a memoir about the substantial challenges that got in the way of a woman’s dreams. Professor Jane Garland’s unconventional memoir peels back layers of privilege to... Read More

A man rides the rails in the pilgrimage novel "The Last Professional", which proposes a free-spirited interpretation of the American dream. In Ed Davis’s historical novel "The Last Professional", gangs square off in an old school... Read More