"The Worst First Day" is an accessible history of segregation and racism that encourages critical thinking. In 1957, the simple act of going to high school transformed Elizabeth Eckford into a nationally recognized figure. She and her... Read More

Through it is a personal story, "Examined Lives" testifies to flagrant injustices within psychological care. Roberta Reb Allen’s family biography "Examined Lives" focuses on mental illness and the wanton use of lobotomies in the... Read More

Van Why’s 9/11 is a heartfelt memoir of September 11th, 2001 that lends voice to the event’s survivors. Artie Van Why’s memoir 9/11 recounts his experiences as a witness to the September 11th, 2001 attacks and details the long,... Read More

Marusya Bociurkiw’s "Food Was Her Country" is a sweet, concise memoir that uses food as an effective metaphor for connection and love. Bociurkiw is the daughter of Ukrainian immigrants whose connection to her culture and family is... Read More

Part memoir, part biography, "Look Both Ways" traces the long path that sent Katharine Coles’s grandparents across the world, searching for oil and a resolution to their untenable marriage. Both trained geologists, Walter Link and... Read More

In the Foursquare Pentecostal Church in the 1960s, Kelly J. Beard’s mother saw demons, though those demons ended up being nothing like Beard’s childhood self imagined: “Instead, they will appear in fires and floods, in her... Read More

One thing is for sure, Mickey Hess has done his homework for "A Guest in the House of Hip-Hop", in which he records trying to be a good ambassador as he amplifies black voices and scholarship. The title draws upon the work of rapper Lord... Read More

Alephonsion Deng and Judy A. Bernstein continue the story of Deng’s death-defying life, moving from the Sudanese civil war to the mean streets of San Diego. The coauthors previously wrote the award-winning They Poured Fire on Us From... Read More