A teenager steps out of her comfort zone to achieve onstage success in the warm novel "Channeling Marilyn", which doubles as a touching tribute to screen icon Marilyn Monroe. A self-conscious teenager meets the spirit of Marilyn Monroe... Read More

About redefining personal success and turning one’s visions into reality, "Live Your Opus" is an encouraging self-help book. Inspired by the soul-searching that followed a sudden loss, Janine Mathó’s supportive self-help book "Live... Read More

A night of violence is routine, expected, and devastating in Francisco Maciel’s literary novel There’s No Point in Dying. There is a favela (slum) in the birthplace of samba. At its center are three bars. They’re close enough that... Read More

In Susan McCarty’s absorbing, nostalgic novel "2008", the lives of a group of estranged high school friends intertwine again fifteen years later. The story begins in 1993, on the night teenage Stevie, her boyfriend Sam, and her best... Read More

"A Tiny White Light" is a lyrical memoir in which living is treated as a continual search for meaning and self-worth. Linda Bass’s intriguing memoir "A Tiny White Light" concerns a psychotic episode, what led up to it, and its... Read More