Grace Loh Prasad’s memoir The Translator’s Daughter is about her life as an assimilated immigrant. Prasad left Taiwan when she was still a toddler. Even after her parents returned to Taiwan years later, she elected to remain in the... Read More

In the emotive novel Frank’s Shadow, a man’s complicated relationship with his father shapes him in both positive and negative ways. In Doug McIntyre’s novel Frank’s Shadow, a middle-aged man seeks self-understanding while coping... Read More

"Running Up the Mountain" is a fascinating insiders’ account of a collegiate cross-country team’s improbable rise. Matt Baxter and Ron Mann’s inspirational sports history book "Running Up the Mountain" covers the growth of Northern... Read More

In Beatrice Bowles’s fantastical coming-of-age story "A Ring of Riddles", a fifteen-year-old girl receives a mysterious ring at her grandmother’s funeral. "A Ring of Riddles" contains several subplots that are introduced early in the... Read More

Karina Shor’s graphic memoir "Silence, Full Stop." covers her self-destructive teenage years in Israel and her repressed trauma. Shor felt like an outsider from her childhood in Moldova onward. Asked by classmates if she favored the... Read More

A battle with drug addiction is supplanted by a bicycle-powered birding road trip in Dorian Anderson’s gripping memoir "Birding Under the Influence". Anderson was an addict. Whether he was strung out on the drugs and alcohol he abused... Read More

Martin Stevens’s "Secret Worlds" is a brilliant book on animal perception—the astonishing sensory adaptations that birds, insects, and other creatures evolved for their survival. Humans share five senses with animals; animals have... Read More