At the end of the Cold War, a television producer, Natasha Lance Rogoff, took on the challenge of creating Ulitsa Sezam, a Russian version of Sesame Street. In "Muppets in Moscow", she chronicles the challenges of that endeavor, from... Read More
"Servitude" is a thrilling science fiction novel about debt-based slavery and a married couple’s attempt to prevent its global expansion. In Costi Gurgu’s science fiction series opener "Servitude", a detective and a journalist are... Read More
A soldier with the German SS during World War II is confronted about his involvement sixty-five years later in the gripping graphic novel "The Journey of Marcel Grob". Marcel is an eighty-three-year-old retired engineer when he faces a... Read More
In his visionary memoir-in-essays "Without Saints", Christopher Locke freezes the past, covering enforced religiosity, self-destructive habits, his marriage and fatherhood, and teaching. In a framework that mimics the nature of memory,... Read More
The weight of trauma and secrets brings a family to their breaking point in the connected short stories of Toni Ann Johnson’s "Light Skin Gone to Waste". The Arrington family has high aspirations. Phil, a psychologist, wants to have a... Read More
In Jean Gill’s gripping historical novel "The Ring Breaker", a young man comes of age in the Viking-era Orkney Islands, navigating court intrigue, his own survival, and his confusing feelings about the jarl’s cursed ward. The book... Read More
In the powerful memoir "Off My Knees", a woman turns her life around after hitting rock bottom. Julie D. Summers’s "Off My Knees" is a compelling memoir about overcoming abuse, addiction, and time in prison. After a tumultuous... Read More
"The Courage to Stay" is an affirming self-help book that walks couples through achieving a new sense of normalcy after the discovery of an affair. Drawing upon twenty-plus years of clinical experience with struggling partners, Kathy... Read More