"Reflections for Living and Growing" is an uplifting collection of thoughts on self-improvement, growth, and positivity. Jamaican minister Webster Edwards’s motivational book "Reflections for Living and Growing" contains inspiring... Read More

The Saracen’s Codex is a political polemic that pulls zero punches. Nader Akbari’s The Saracen’s Codex is a research supported, thought provoking, and aggressive look at the rising threat of violent fascism in Europe. This fascism,... Read More

The quest in "Friedrichstrasse Central" draws fascinating elements into a muddle of genres. An ancient treasure with prophetic implications ensnares an unlikely duo in Geoff Logan’s "Friedrichstrasse Central". Australian geologist Ivan... Read More

A decade after Latisha King’s murder, Gayle Salamon reassesses what we know about King and her legacy. "The Life and Death of Latisha King" is no ordinary true-crime narrative, but a hard-hitting philosophical investigation into gender... Read More

Somewhere on the Dark Side of the Id is a unique love story with a psychological edge. V. Miles Capiston’s novel Somewhere on the Dark Side of the Id is a dark and twisted romance driven by one man’s ego. In a Portland coffee shop,... Read More

The fix is in: we are hopeless Jim Harrison fans, and his recent death moved our reverence beyond reason—he alone spoke our Mother Tongue. In a forty-plus year career, Harrison authored thirty-six books, most of them collections of... Read More

Amabelle Desir belongs to herself, or so she responds to the wealthy Spanish family that adopts her shortly after she watches her parents drown. Such is Amabelle’s measured tone in the face of disaster. As the narrator of Edwidge... Read More

A daughter’s heartfelt recollection of her last days with her mom, with a poignant introduction by Mitch Albom. Lisa Goich was there to witness all of her mother Millie’s final days, and she shares them openly, without moralizing.... Read More