George Uba’s memoir Water Thicker Than Blood reflects upon the personal and cultural intricacies of Japanese American life, before and after World War II. Following the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack, President Roosevelt ordered all US... Read More

Six young women face the fatal consequences of radium exposure in the graphic novel "Radium Girls". In 1918, radium is used to enhance all kinds of products because of its glow-in-the-dark effect. But the dangers of this radioactivity... Read More

Set in the 1970s, Brian Lebeau’s psychological thriller "A Disturbing Nature" follows a serial killer’s trail of bodies in New England. Francis Palmer, a chief investigator with the FBI, solves mass murder cases. He discovered... Read More

Marcie Roman’s novel "Journey to the Parallels" centers on a family who are trying to escape an alternate reality’s totalitarian regime. Every morning on the ride to school, Amber’s mother urges her children to wave to the... Read More

In Kent Quaney’s captivating novel "One Breath from Drowning", pursuits of love and self-fulfillment are complicated by family, religion, finances, and addiction. Sydney is the setting for this detailed story about a thorny romance... Read More

The essays of Raquel Gutiérrez’s "Brown Neon" mix personal writing with cultural history and criticism to explore race, gender, migration, and art in the southwestern US during the 45th presidency. “On Making Butch Family: An... Read More

London’s antiquarian book world, its purveyors, and their charming, sometimes eccentric proclivities fill Marius Kociejowski’s droll memoir "A Factotum in the Book Trade". The son of a Polish father and English mother, Kociejowski... Read More

In her lyrical memoir, L. M. Browning “shatters the window of the white picket dream,” making her way West to reclaim herself. Moody black-and-white photographs accompany the book’s poems, adding resonance to claims of freedom or... Read More