Both a healer’s guide to food and a reinterpretation of what makes a tasty meal, Lisanna Wallance’s tantalizing gluten-free cookbook "Plant-Based Magic" celebrates fresh food’s connection to personal wellness. An encyclopedic... Read More

"A Different Kind of Vow" is a compelling memoir about midlife self-discovery. Laurie Collister’s heartening memoir "A Different Kind of Vow" is about finding happiness in an unexpected way. Collister once dreamed of marrying and... Read More

Samantha Ellis’s powerful memoir "Always Carry Salt" exemplifies diaspora yearning and determination. Ellis grew up in the United Kingdom, hearing snippets of the Judeo-Iraqi Arabic of her parents and ancestors. By adulthood, though,... Read More

The psychological toll of spending years pursuing vindication is explored in "Mosaic Pieces", a vivid true crime book–cum–family saga. Journalist Wes Skillings’s sobering true crime book "Mosaic Pieces" is about justice gone awry.... Read More

A sincere self-help guide, "Be Who You Came to Be" is flush with morale-boosting advice. Tara Renze’s encouraging self-help book "Be Who You Came to Be" guides women toward becoming their most authentic and fulfilling selves. Asserting... Read More

The notion that all creatures have the capacity to do either harm or good is exemplified in the ecoconscious novel "Uplift". In Jessica Mann’s delicate allegorical novel "Uplift", a bird living in the Anthropocene comes of age and... Read More

Mysterious out-of-towners help a mourning young woman embrace her inner adventurer in "The Barefoot Followers of Sweet Potato Grace", Megan Okonsky’s joyous novel about coming out and coming of age. Pinky, who was boxed into returning... Read More