"Do the Impossible" is an enthusiastic guide to adopting positive future visions of oneself. Jason Drees’s hopeful self-help guide "Do the Impossible" suggests tools for maximizing one’s potential. Divided into three distinct,... Read More

Mark Powell’s "Lioness" is a haunting literary thriller that probes an emotional and spiritual quest for meaning amid despair. Two years after the death of their seven-year-old son, David learns that his estranged wife, Mara, is... Read More

Disabilities and adoption are themes in Jordon Greene’s LGBTQ+ novel "Every Word You Never Said", a sweet romance story that’s informed by social justice concerns. Newly adopted and entering a new high school in North Carolina as a... Read More

"3 Magic Dreams" is an offbeat trio of stories paired with inventive illustrations. Matt Bolton Art’s "3 Magic Dreams" is comprised of three short stories in rhyming verse with surrealist illustrations. In “Gilby,” a boy lives on... Read More

Poet Kate Daniels’s memoir "Slow Fuse of the Possible" is about a three-year stint in psychoanalysis, where attention to language and the fall into the unconscious are likened to poetry itself. Daniels entered into psychoanalysis... Read More

Ellery’s Magic Bicycle is an uplifting picture book in which a girl forms a magical friendship that lasts throughout the years. In Maria Monte’s heartwarming picture book Ellery’s Magic Bicycle, a girl with a bike that seems to... Read More

With the knowledge that great stories last for generations, Danielle Higley’s entertaining "The Stories Behind the Stories" shares the histories behind twenty-nine iconic children’s books, beginning with the unclear origins of the... Read More

The essays of Issac J. Bailey’s Why Didn’t We Riot? are incisive as they confront the realities of systemic racism in America and in the age of Donald Trump. Bailey begins his book by discussing blind spots—in particular, those of... Read More