A first-generation Mexican-American college student is altered by love in Andrés N. Ordorica’s elegiac romance novel "How We Named the Stars". Daniel’s freshman year at an elite Ithaca university was marked by tumult—including the... Read More

A young man joins a ghost in a high-stakes car race in the graphic novel "Hex Americana". Ken lives in a world inhabited by gnomes, ghosts, a cyclops, and a two-headed race announcer. He identifies as Yokai American, derived from the... Read More

"Something Tricky Bad" is a heartwarming mystery novel in which a small town is reshaped by love, devotion, and tragedy. In Freya Smallwood’s endearing mystery novel "Something Tricky Bad", the residents of a vibrant California... Read More

Comprehensive yet succinct, "New You! Who Knew?" is a self-help book about taking control of one’s life based on personalized core values. David R. Edwards’s logical self-help text "New You! Who Knew?" empowers people to improve at... Read More

Sacha Lamb’s "When the Angels Left the Old Country" is a luminescent novel about two incidental supernatural emigres. In a shtetl too small to warrant its own name, an angel and a demon argue Talmud together, wrapping themselves in the... Read More

Steve Kanji Ruhl’s "Appalachian Zen" is a memoir about a Buddhist awakening. Ruhl grew up in a trailer park in Appalachia with a deep yearning to be somewhere else. He began to practice Zen Buddhism, viewing it as a welcome contrast to... Read More

They Don’t Pay Me to Say No captures the human moments of making a movie or television show via a fascinating series of anecdotes. Dean Goodine’s They Don’t Pay Me to Say No, a memoir about working as a film and television prop... Read More

In Maggie Smith’s novel "Truth and Other Lies", three driven women make life-altering decisions about the secrets they’ve kept in order to get ahead. Megan, a young, liberal journalist, moves back into her overprotective mother’s... Read More