With humor and a group of women characters bursting with toughness and personality, this historical novel is both bizarre and compelling. Jeffrey Stayton’s This Side of the... Read More

This highly readable, triumphant tale deserves a place on any music lover’s and book lover’s shelf. Tears and Trombones is the inspiring novel, based on a true story, of how... Read More

A moving, detailed story of overcoming abuse and unhealthy marriages, this memoir captivates through admirable description of everyday life. A survivor of both childhood and... Read More

A curious and quaint adventure, this playful tale brings cleverness and wit to the fable genre. The Story of Princess Olivia is an offbeat and peculiar fable-like story about a... Read More

With a lyrical voice, Pamela Erens has written a novel about first love and sexual awakening that is multilayered and perceptive. This novel of academia is set in a fictional... Read More

Charming vignettes, cute recipe titles, and photos of the family cooking add a traditional appeal to this versatile cookbook. Think back to childhood, and it’s quite likely... Read More

Readers’ perceptions about the homeless population and pet ownership may change after reading My Dog Always Eats First: Homeless People and Their Animals, a sociological study... Read More

In a societal context where body obsessions coincide with alarming rates of obesity among Western children, The Body Image Survival Guide for Parents is a slim but highly... Read More

Amy Roloff, costar of the former TLC series Little People, Big World, is no stranger to challenges. As a little person, she has surmounted many of them, including learning to... Read More

The Wayward Moon is a magnificent piece of historical fiction and a startlingly beautiful portrayal of a strong woman in an era when women were expected to be only a man’s... Read More

When you read through Michael Joseph Oswald’s Your Guide to the National Parks, there’s a good chance you will have a barely-contained (or not) impulse to pack a bag and... Read More

Van Wallach is a Texan-born, Baptist-raised, Jewish man on a quest for love. His slim memoir documents this journey with both humor and insight. Wallach, now in his fifties, has... Read More