"Tommy and the Order of Cosmic Champions" is an energetic adventure novel in which a bullied boy leaves home and has to decide whether or not he wants to become like a villain. In Anthony J. Rapino and Anthony D. Grate’s young adult... Read More

Jennifer Dance’s based-in-truth novel "Gone but Still Here" follows a tragedy-scarred multiracial family as one of its members is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Mary feels herself slipping. Despite her career as a published... Read More

A woman’s obsession with a forgotten poet leads to life-changing personal and historical discoveries in Shola von Reinhold’s novel "LOTE". Mathilda finagles her way into the lives of others and lives off of their largess until... Read More

In Jo Watson’s endearing novel "Big Boned", a talented artist’s ideas about her self-worth bloom after she moves to Cape Town. After her parents divorce, Lori transfers to Bay Water High. Her mother, in her distracted grief, rebrands... Read More

In the convincing novel "Changganli", four friends witness China’s emergence as a modern power. Jiwen’s novel "Changganli" depicts the post-Mao transitions that brought China into modernity in under a generation. In 1986, the... Read More

"American Dreamer" is a must-read memoir and a quintessentially American immigrant’s story. Tim Tran’s memoir "American Dreamer" is a testament to the power of positive feeling and goodwill, even in the face of incredible odds. Tran... Read More

"The North Wind Descends" is a historical mystery about corruption, greed, and vengeance in ancient Egypt. A diplomat is set on the trail of an assassin in N. L. Holmes’s historical mystery novel, "The North Wind Descends". Lord Hani,... Read More

Estranged siblings deal with their dying father, and each other, in Charles Lambert’s novel "Prodigal". Jeremy and Rachel have never been close. Rachel, always their father’s favorite, resents her mother and brother for abandoning... Read More