Part memoir, part invitation to spiritual exploration, Amal Awad’s curious and accepting book "In My Past Life I Was Cleopatra" moves through New Age practices with hope. “The truth about humanity is that we require belief,” Awad... Read More

Discussions about, and popular understandings of, American Jews often belie the true diversity of the US’s community, as is evinced in "Once We Were Slaves". Laura Arnold Leibman’s biography traces a preeminent American Jewish family... Read More

Sari Fordham grew up in the Seventh Day Adventist Church as the child of missionaries; her poetic memoir "Wait for God to Notice" is about her childhood experiences in Uganda, during Idi Amin’s 1970s reign of terror. The second child... Read More

People can’t see what isn’t culturally visible—that’s why queer history is so necessary, not just as a one-off, but as a perennial part of a culture’s story. In "No Way, They Were Gay?", Lee Wind revisits famous figures of US... Read More

The president of the United States is one of the most visible people on the planet, and photographs of presidents have been an important part of their legacies for generations. Cara A. Finnegan explores the history of presidential... Read More

Henri’s Last Gift is a playful psychological novel that reframes life’s hardest moments as opportunities for healing. In Gilles Jaitour’s supernatural novel Henri’s Last Gift, a repressed man’s departed friends help him to face... Read More

Aaron Gilbreath knows that you cannot understand California without understanding its interior. Thus, his travelogue "The Heart of California" explores the misunderstood, troubled, and lovely San Joaquin Valley in search of illumination.... Read More

Characterized by passionate flourishes and a commitment to seeing immigrants treated fairly, "The Horseshoe Virus" is a knowledgeable political text that exposes the mechanizations of anti-immigrant operatives. The personal is... Read More