Vertiginous and gritty, Andrzej Tichý’s novel "Wretchedness" depicts the seamier side of Europe’s society. Cody is a cellist for an avant-garde ensemble, and Tichý’s narrative weaves in and out of his drug-infused past. While... Read More

Energetic from the first, Kylie Cheung’s A Woman’s Place is blunt as it narrates the current political and social landscape with regard to women’s interests. Each chapter tackles a different aspect of women’s existences, and many... Read More

Ed Rosenthal’s gripping "Salvation Canyon" is about a desert hike gone wrong and a transformative, face-to-face confrontation with death. Rosenthal, a sixty-four-year-old real estate broker and poet, was no newbie to solitary desert... Read More

Passionate and gripping, "The Journalist" is the story of Jerry Rose, an acclaimed American journalist who gave his life to tell the hidden truth about the US’s involvement in the bloody, divisive Vietnam War. The work that Rose left... Read More

A wee redhead in a matching knit vest and pom-pommed beanie observes the world around them, taking pleasure in the raging storms and sunny flowers, in this charming read-aloud with an underlying message about global connectivity and... Read More

Drawing on the beauty and idiosyncrasies of places all around the world, "Brave(ish)" is a compelling memoir about travel and self-acceptance. Margaret Davis Ghielmetti’s "Brave(ish)" is a poignant, humorous memoir about letting go of... Read More

Liberty’s Triumph through the Lens of Dutch Brazil is popular history done right and a necessary corrective to an often overlooked epoch. J. M. Walsh’s Liberty’s Triumph Through the Lens of Dutch Brazil examines the complex ideal... Read More

A lost and audacious girl’s life story is reconstructed by the yearning child and grandchild she left behind in Sheila O’Connor’s poetic and precise semi-biographical novel, "Evidence of V". In 1935, a fifteen-year-old girl with... Read More