"The Company of Women" is a promising high fantasy novel with a riveting main character. "The Company of Women", the third book in Forrest Johnson’s A Foreign Shore fantasy series, dives into the adventures of warrior woman Raeesha as... Read More

"Different" is an entertaining novel about a family growing closer through understanding and spirituality. In Datta Groover’s spiritual novel "Different", a family grapples with extraordinary truths about reincarnation. The novel tells... Read More

In Jon James Miller’s heartwarming noir "Looking for Garbo", James is dying for a unique story to build a documentary around. Seth, who’s dying of emphysema, lures James in with a tale centered around legendary actress Greta Garbo... Read More

Through it is a personal story, "Examined Lives" testifies to flagrant injustices within psychological care. Roberta Reb Allen’s family biography "Examined Lives" focuses on mental illness and the wanton use of lobotomies in the... Read More

At the center of Maria Flook’s "Divorce, Dog Style" is a hapless, loyal, and beloved German shepherd named Butter, who has been diagnosed with cancer and will soon be put to sleep. Butter’s impending demise brings together the... Read More

One of the first things Tracy Franz learns as a yakimono deshi, an apprentice of traditional Japanese pottery, is that “it is the nothingness in the middle that determines the true size of the vessel.” Her memoir, "My Year of Dirt... Read More

This is stand-up comedy in written form, a culmination of oftentimes universal thoughts that are given a winking twist. Patrick Dykie’s straightforwardly presented book "Simple Observations" is a humorous work that skips between... Read More

On a Martinique sugar plantation near the end of the eighteenth century, sister and brother Abeje and Adunbi are the first generation born into slavery. They are orphaned at an early age. Abeje grows into a healing woman with an instinct... Read More