Journalist Katya Cengel’s adventurous memoir "From Chernobyl with Love" begins in the 1990s, when, fresh out of college, she was posted to an assignment abroad. Cengel arrived in Latvia with the name of her new employer, school... Read More

Cameron Dezen Hammon’s memoir "This Is My Body" is about both her career as a musical worship leader and her relationship struggles. It is a moving, valuable look at the social structures of evangelical Christianity, the treatment of... Read More

In Mark Barr’s engrossing historical novel "Watershed", personal and social changes lead to tension in a rural Tennessee town where a post-Depression federal dam project brings work, strangers, and electricity to the region. Claire is... Read More

Defining marriage and adultery is tricky, and it was even trickier in the 1800s. In the heady but colorful "Unfaithful", Carol Faulkner gives the history of American marriage reformers. These rebels and thinkers, along with some... Read More

The short, potent essays of Margaret Renkl’s Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss are objects as worthy of marvel and study as the birds and other creatures they observe. Linked stories concentrate on Renkl’s family,... Read More

Amy Weinland Daughters’s novel "You Cannot Mess This Up" explores an irresistible time travel premise: What if you could go back in time and meet your family as an outsider and hear what the adults in your life had to say about you as... Read More

"to be to is to was" is an anti-establishment collection of stories that goes from real to surreal, from Middle America to space rock operas, with its outrageous characters. Stephen C. Bird’s collection of short stories and vignettes... 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