Tal Ben-Shahar’s encouraging self-help book is about why people’s efforts to change so often fail. It suggests strategies for turning failure and frustration into success, well-being, and fulfillment. Asserting that failures to make... Read More

An encyclopedic recipe book, Laure Kié’s "Delicious Japanese Street Eats" brings together Japanese culinary culture and cooking know-how in a colorful, eye-catching format. A mouthwatering collection of recipes for popular and... Read More

Sim Butler’s incisive memoir "And the Dragons Do Come" is about raising a transgender child in the Deep South. Butler assumed that his firstborn child was a boy. But after years of her fervent insistence that she was a girl, coupled... Read More

The end is a new beginning for a young man named in defiance of death in Alain Mabanckou’s otherworldly novel "Dealing with the Dead". On Independence Day for the Republic of the Congo, Liwa, a hotel cook, gets dressed up, receives his... Read More

Exploring unseen fields with aplomb, "Space Is Not Empty" is a spiritual self-help text about leading a more present, thoughtful, and positive social life. The invisible worlds of social fields and behavioral energies are dissected in... Read More

"Your Journey to Successful Parenting" is an insightful parenting guide in which a child psychologist sifts through a variety of situations the parents of young children may face, proffering commonsense solutions. Clinical psychologist... Read More

A man searches the multiverse for self-realization in the graphic novel "The Wormhole Society". Rusty is a sex-obsessed guy with erectile dysfunction and a history of demeaning women. He orders a call girl, Sonya, humiliates her, then... Read More

Framed through the metaphor of broken glass, Sara Ella’s lush fantasy novel "Glass Across the Sea" is a breathtaking story of love and redemption. Long ago in Allumeria, the benevolent Lamplighter gave humanity a miraculous lantern.... Read More