First generation immigrants navigate their striated society in Shida Bazyar’s pointed novel "Sisters in Arms". Saya, Kasih, and Hani grew up in metropolitan Germany, bound by their shared experiences as Muslim immigrants. But their... Read More

A Brazilian lawyer is reminded that intimacy is perilous in Patrícia Melo’s searing novel "The Simple Art of Killing a Woman". While researching fatal crimes against women, a lawyer lists the varying slights that caused men to kill... Read More

Raw, vulnerable, and introspective, the memoir "Mattie, Milo, and Me" covers a woman’s transformative relationships with two dogs. Anne Abel’s loving memoir "Mattie, Milo, and Me" covers her care for an aggressive dog, which... Read More

A party gone wrong leaves a community reeling in Tash McAdam’s mystery novel "No One Left but You". Since coming out as trans, Max has been ostracized by his former friends, including his crush, Danny. A kind teacher takes notice and... Read More

Marked by sass and salty language, Beth Romero’s "Happy AF" is an experiential, science-backed guidebook to being happy, no matter what. For Romero, the events of 2018 to 2020 could have been backed by “the soundtrack from a... Read More

Boria Sax’s "Enchanted Forests" spurs the imagination with its wide-ranging examination of literature, folklore, and visual art related to forests and their creatures. This engaging, scholarly volume summarizes how, throughout history,... Read More

Curtis Smith’s lyrical novel "The Lost and the Blind" captures the plights of an addict’s son and a father serving a life sentence in prison. Mark is a disadvantaged teenager who seeks to rise above his hardscrabble upbringing in the... Read More