"Goodbye Homeboy" is a touching, thought-provoking memoir about teaching at-risk youths. Steve Mariotti’s passionate memoir "Goodbye Homeboy" is about teaching low-income, at-risk youths; it argues for imparting the value of... Read More

Sonja Boon’s evocative, informative memoir "What the Oceans Remember" follows her research into her family’s history. Invited to build her family tree, Boon was finally able to address longtime questions about her heritage, identity,... Read More

In "The Path Keeper"—the first book in N. J. Simmonds’s fantasy trilogy The Indigo Chronicles—angels rule the world, love spans across lifetimes, and unexpected choices change your destiny. When Ella starts at university, all she... Read More

Michelle Ann Abate’s "Funny Girls" is fascinating, focusing on an oft ignored component of Golden Age comics: preadolescent girl characters. It contextualizes and analyzes a number of wildly successful but academically ignored... Read More

"Afternoon Tomatoes" is a satisfying poetry compilation that is charming in its colorful humanness. T. J. Richards’s "Afternoon Tomatoes" is a nostalgic, enjoyable, and earthy poetry collection. Organized alphabetically, poems shed a... Read More

"The Divinity Protocol" is thought-provoking science fiction that tackles haunting questions and works toward plausible answers. Berkeley and Kristin Johnson’s gripping speculative novel "The Divinity Protocol" explores the short- and... Read More