"I Got It from Here" is a memoir about persistence and personal growth in spite of dire odds. Francesca Miracola’s memoir "I Got It from Here" is both a bid for understanding and a cautionary tale by a woman who married the wrong man.... Read More

We reckon that nine generations in Appalachia is long enough for a place to get in the bones of a family, and that kinheritance has marked Kari Gunter-Seymour with an intuitive feel for one of America’s most isolated and peculiar... Read More

Zig-zagging back and forth across time, Li Zi Shu’s "The Age of Goodbyes" is a kaleidoscopic family drama presented through multiple perspectives. The novel’s central focus is a book also titled "The Age of Goodbyes"; it follows the... Read More

A young girl is tucked into bed with her three stuffed rabbits, imagining all the essential chores they will accomplish while she sleeps—polishing the sun, dusting the butterflies, and stuffing clouds among them. Rhyming couplets... Read More

Love is the driving force in Alina Adams’s intimate novel "My Mother’s Secret", set in Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union. A firm believer in communism, Regina dreams of building a socialist Jewish society in Birobidzhan, the designated... Read More

Two best friends navigate their young adulthoods in Susen Edwards’s historical novel "What a Trip". Even as the Vietnam War rages on, Fiona and Melissa feel that they have bigger problems: Melissa needs an abortion and a reality check... Read More

Dave Williams and Elizabeth Howell’s "Why Am I Taller?" covers the medical side of an astronaut’s life. Physician astronauts, like Williams, have a unique window into what it’s like to be in space. They both experience and diagnose... Read More

"Angel of the Garbage Dump" is the biography of a courageous change-maker, Hanley Denning. Denning first encountered the Guatemala City dump that she came to think of as “home” in 1999. Though her early experiences there were... Read More