"The Freelance Academic" is both a how-to guide for those thinking of branching out on their own in academia and the personal story of what led its author, Katie Rose Guest Pryal, to freelance herself. Pryal worked as a contingent... Read More

Heidi James’s "So the Doves" triumphs with just the right blend of psychological suspense and lilting prose that practically dances off the page. Spanning over two decades, the slim but mighty novel tells the story of Marcus, a... Read More

"Owen and Eleanor Make Things Up" is the second in a series of books for young readers starring cheeky Eleanor and her neighbor and sidekick Owen, both second graders. In this installment, Eleanor has a school assignment to write a true... Read More

Oakland Ross’s "Swimming with Horses" is a multilayered adventure that is part mystery, part coming-of-age tale. The story vacillates between apartheid South Africa in 1962 and a small Ontario town a year later, when Hilary, a... Read More

Lisa Kohn’s memoir of growing up in the 1960s and 1970s under the influence of the Unification Church—the “Moonies” cult—is at once heartrending and mind-blowing. Kohn’s upbringing was turbulent. She lived in two worlds: on... Read More

"Quite Mad", Sarah Fawn Montgomery’s mental illness memoir, is nothing short of mesmerizing—an ode to her years of struggling with anxiety, OCD, and PTSD, all of which she eventually accepted as a core part of her being. The book... Read More

Through yoga and a macrobiotic diet, Saeeda Hafiz was able to conquer the demons of her past and escape her family’s cycle of violence and drug abuse. In "The Healing", Hafiz tells her story in raw, unflinchingly honest prose, and the... Read More

Boyd paints a vivid portrait of a young woman entrepreneur’s defiant and revolutionary spirit. Natasha Boyd’s "The Indigo Girl" introduces an all-but-forgotten, real-life historical figure, Eliza Lucas, while providing a fascinating... Read More