"Eyes Wide Open" is a hopeful self-improvement book that suggests that deeper insights are possible at any age. Christine Bryce’s thoughtful self-improvement book "Eyes Wide Open" is made up of a series of loosely linked essays about... Read More

Heroines are needed now more than ever, and Liller’s self-help book uses classic paradigms to show women how to unlock their own heroic powers. Myth and theory come to life in Susanna Liller’s You Are a Heroine: A Retelling of the... Read More

A fascinating, up-close look at ecologically sensitive Midwestern farmers, Brian DeVore’s "Wildly Successful Farming" features intriguing observations—such as that individuals trained in natural resources fields like conservation and... Read More

"The Bodymind Ballwork Method" describes and instructs how to feel better using a variety of rubber-ball techniques. The book begins with foundational concepts: how the nervous system responds to stress, the kinds of tissue that make up... Read More

When Louise Wolfe’s boyfriend makes disparaging comments about Native people, she breaks up with him. After all, she is part of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and proud of it. But in the small Kansas town her family has lived in for just... Read More

Carol A. Stabile explores the “cleansing” of progressive women writers, artists, and performers from postwar American television in "The Broadcast 41". It’s a chilling account of how FBI and conservative leaders worked to cement... Read More

A Pawn’s Journey is a compelling novel with audience improvement in mind. Elliott Neff’s lifelike self-help novel A Pawn’s Journey uses chess strategies as a metaphor for building life skills. The story focuses on a floundering... Read More

Beneath a New Jersey sky, a young girl with the deck stacked against her falls in love with the weather. Years later, feeling an odd fit with her PhD program at MIT, she heads north to try her hand at television meteorology, whirling... Read More