Scott Chaskey’s elegant and spirited essay collection "Soil and Spirit" concerns the interconnectedness of elements and life forms. Studded with literary quotes, poetry, personal anecdotes, and scenes from a well-traveled life, these... Read More

Jenny Graham, who broke records when she circumnavigated the globe by bicycle, shares her story of courage and resilience in "Coffee First, Then the World". One of Graham’s strongest childhood memories is of learning to ride a bicycle... Read More

A young American and her friend Julia Child are implicated in a murder in Colleen Cambridge’s vibrant cozy mystery novel "Mastering the Art of French Murder". It’s 1949, and Tabitha misses her former life as a riveter in a Detroit... Read More

In Tyriek White’s elegiac novel "We Are a Haunting", a son’s inherited grief binds him to his mother and grandmother as he discovers how to define “home” in New York. On the brink of expulsion from school in the 2000s, Colly is... Read More

Memorable and fluid, professor Francesca T. Royster’s memoir "Choosing Family" blends her family’s history with her story of adopting an infant girl, juxtaposing personal life with political life and allowing each to illuminate the... Read More

David Mas Masumoto’s "Secret Harvests" shares the troubled history of two families alongside the extraordinary discovery of a long-lost relative. Soon after the Pearl Harbor attack, Masumoto’s grandparents and their children became... Read More

A frustrated piano teacher gains some much-needed clarity and perspective in An Yu’s novel "Ghost Music". Song Yan lives with her husband and mother-in-law, but family secrets and thwarted ambitions prevent her from developing a close... Read More

In Brenda Lozano’s "Witches", an Indigenous healer tells her story to a reporter who has her own unhealed wounds. Paloma was killed for being Muxe, a third gender recognized by the Zapotec, one of Mexico’s many Indigenous groups. The... Read More