With chapters alternating between their two experiences with Vietnam, father-daughter duo Christina Vo and Nghia M. Vo’s soul-stirring memoir "My Vietnam, Your Vietnam" covers transgenerational understandings of cultural roots. In... Read More

Cultures and generations clash in Maya Arad’s insightful novella collection "The Hebrew Teacher", which follows three storylines whose flows are sometimes concentric. Ilana is a Hebrew professor. She’s been at her school for “forty... Read More

Joanne Leedom-Ackerman’s ambitious and thrilling novel "The Far Side of the Desert" concerns deep-seated family strife, the tentacular roots of global terrorism, and the psychology of reconciliation. Sisters Monte and Samantha Waters,... Read More

"Escaping Nature" is an illuminating, practical resource that summarizes the potential threats of climate change and recommends actionable steps to prepare and respond. While most books on climate change call for sweeping global and... Read More

The Witchfinder’s Serpent is a fantastical novel about coming of age in the face of parental loss and a small town’s tragic, violent history. In Rande Goodwin’s fantasy novel The Witchfinder’s Serpent, a small Connecticut town... Read More

In Maya MacGregor’s empowering novel "The Evolving Truth of Ever-Stronger Will", an agender teenager learns to acknowledge their trauma, find strength in others, and exist without apologies. Though Will once found comfort with their... Read More

While working as migrants, a Mi’kmaq family is rent by their daughter’s disappearance in Amanda Peters’s decades-spanning, heartrending novel "The Berry Pickers". Even before Ruthie disappeared from the Maine field where her... Read More

Set in the early 1960s, Edward Cahill’s intriguing novel "Disorderly Men" concerns the aftermath of a police raid on a Greenwich Village gay bar. Sophisticated and “gray-flanneled” Roger is a World War II veteran, husband, and... Read More