A teenager explores her sexual identity despite the disapproval of her family in the sensitive graphic novel "Punk Like Me". Nina, a preparatory school student in Staten Island, and her best friend Kerry enjoy music and comic books.... Read More

Substantial planning and extensive moralizing goes into a jailbreak in the musing novel "San Quentin Exodus". In Bill Smoot’s hopeful novel "San Quentin Exodus", an idealistic volunteer, viewing it as her moral obligation, attempts to... Read More

A gripping account of an interfamily blood feud that runs alongside critiques of a patriarchal culture, "A Country Called Brooklyn" is an involving memoir. Hane Selmani’s riveting true crime memoir "A Country Called Brooklyn" details... Read More

"Mountains to Cross" is a hopeful memoir about finding meaning in charity work and leaving a lasting legacy in the world. Soldier and Wall Street executive Abraham M. George’s inspirational memoir–cum–self-help book "Mountains to... Read More

In "Portrait of an Island on Fire", essayist Ariel Saramandi writes about how race, gender, culture, and environmental change drive life in Mauritius, wrestling with the ongoing impact of the country’s past. With righteous anger and... Read More

Written with unflinching candor, the memoir "Cracking Up" considers how debilitating addiction can be and the challenges of recovery. Gordon Lownds’s raw tell-all memoir "Cracking Up" leads a harrowing tour through the travails of drug... Read More

A traumatized psychologist’s story is used to illuminate and humanize general therapeutic guidance in the soothing allegorical novel "The Fire That Makes Us". In Shahrzad Jalali’s Jungian allegorical novel "The Fire That Makes Us", a... Read More

An intrepid journalist finds that he is less skilled in love than he is at chasing stories in the historical novel "Roads Not Taken", about personal disappointments despite career successes. Set against the backdrop of global conflicts,... Read More