A sports star and a blue-haired girl connect through activism in the engaging novel "Weirdos Welcome". In Cynthia Baseman’s sensitive novel "Weirdos Welcome", two troubled teenagers fall in love and oppose the establishment of an oil... Read More

In Fidan Meikle’s empathetic novel "My Name Is Samim", a young Afghani refugee faces numerous dangers in his search for safety and belonging. Sensitive thirteen-year-old Samim narrates in dual timelines. In the present, he is a foster... Read More

About mourning while traveling, the emotive memoir "Belonging to the World" is sympathetic in covering extreme travel experiences around the globe. Barry Hoffner’s lively memoir Belonging in the World is about grieving and healing in... Read More

Sara Gothelf Bloom’s sophisticated novel-in-vignettes "Just Enough to Start Over" is about an artistic German Jewish family in exile from the Nazis. There are three Dubrovsky sisters: Bertha, a talented musician; Annelene, a gifted... Read More

Structured like a sonata, the lucid memoir "Countermelodies" is about a flutist’s career and how it was marked by her relationships with men. Ernestine Whitman’s incisive memoir "Countermelodies" covers her career in the cutthroat... Read More

Celebrating Irish locales and personalities, Getting Lost on My Way is an engaging travel memoir about the emotional benefit of challenging oneself and venturing down unfamiliar paths. Diane Hartman’s engaging travel memoir Getting... Read More

"Such a Pretty Picture" is a shocking memoir about surviving sexual abuse. Andrea Leeb’s powerful memoir "Such a Pretty Picture" explicates the long-term consequences of and process of recovery from abuse. As a graduate student and... Read More

In her gritty yet lyrical memoir "Soft as Bones", Chyana Marie Sage confronts generational trauma. Sage, who is of Cree, Metis, and Salish heritage, was born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta. Her earliest memories are happy ones of... Read More