In Fidan Meikle’s empathetic novel "My Name Is Samim", a young Afghani refugee faces numerous dangers in his search for safety and belonging. Sensitive thirteen-year-old Samim narrates in dual timelines. In the present, he is a foster... Read More

A murder in the Reconstruction-era South is excavated in Sylvester Allen Jr. and Belle Boggs’s history book "The Legend of Wyatt Outlaw". Following the conclusion of the Civil War, small-town citizens in places like Graham, North... Read More

Fausta Cialente’s multifaceted historical novel "A Very Cold Winter" explores the individual and collective dynamics of an extended family as they adjust to life in postwar Italy. Though the war ended, Milan is still shadowed by... Read More

In his excellent travel memoir "Riverine Dreams", George Frazier visits eight grassland rivers “where fifty million people go about their lives in the ruins of North America’s once vast interior grassland.” Before European... Read More

“About the universal forces that shape us all,” "Peak Integration" is a revealing memoir–cum–self-help text. Concerned with personal and social imbalances, motivational speaker and life coach Pierce J. Brooks’s self-help text... Read More

A principled doctor falls for a melancholy young woman, facing career complications and political intrigue to be with her, in the poignant historical novel Roland’s Labyrinth. An aspiring doctor and a mentally ill woman join forces in... Read More

In her gritty yet lyrical memoir "Soft as Bones", Chyana Marie Sage confronts generational trauma. Sage, who is of Cree, Metis, and Salish heritage, was born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta. Her earliest memories are happy ones of... Read More

The thoughtful novel "Intersections" undertakes a compelling exploration of unexpected friendships and hard choices. Karen F. Uhlmann’s ruminative novel "Intersections" is about tough family relationships and difficult mercies. When a... Read More