College student Dave Morehead is a “straight young man living in a gay old city” in Jeffrey Hickey’s candid coming-of-age story. Set in the 1970s and 1980s, "Morehead" follows the education of a twenty-one-year-old man who arrives... Read More

Phil Jourdan’s memoir, "Praise of Motherhood", is a small book that makes an enormous impact. Jourdan writes about his mother and their relationship, covering the territory from his teen years to his early twenties and her sudden,... Read More

Andy Stone is overwhelmed. His career as a reporter is in jeopardy, he is on the cusp of a new relationship, and he learns that his much-loved mother, Sarah, is once again struggling with cancer. Everything else in Andy’s life is... Read More

"Teachers of Wisdom", an award-winning book of biographies, commentary, and quotes, with an excellent preface, introduction, and appendix, was first published in Slovenian in 2007. Notwithstanding its poor cover art and minor... Read More

It is 2034, and fighting factions struggle to gain control of dwindling fuel supplies in Dark Dawning: The Oil is Running Out, Auguste Dinoto’s debut novel. Catastrophic earthquakes in the Mediterranean Sea take out much of the... Read More

No diagnosis is as evil as Alzheimer’s. While it slowly strips away memories, experiences, and personalities, it leaves victims with enough awareness to know something is terribly, and terrifyingly, wrong. At some point, even this... Read More

Murder in a small Southern town causes serious questioning among the coffee sippers on benches and folding chairs outside of Lucy’s Large Lunch restaurant. As they watch life go by, the town’s oldsters and its police chief, Chuck... Read More

This collaboration between an Inuit throat singer and a children’s librarian investigates the origins of fog. Young readers are invited to accompany a hunter on a springtime journey across the tundra, where he encounters more than he... Read More