Arguing for systemic reform in the name of childhood stability and belonging, "Against All Odds" couches a social science argument in the context of a personal tale of resilience. Tristian Smith’s sobering memoir "Against All Odds" is... Read More

David Haynes’s complex short story collection Martha’s Daughter is about the everyday situations and relationships of working-class Black Americans. Set in the metropolitan flatlands of Missouri, the stories are imbued with the... Read More

In his excellent travel memoir "Riverine Dreams", George Frazier visits eight grassland rivers “where fifty million people go about their lives in the ruins of North America’s once vast interior grassland.” Before European... Read More

Astrobiologist Jon Willis’s "The Pale Blue Data Point" investigates the diverse paths through which scientists have attempted to discover extraterrestrial life. Beginning with the ancient question of the existence of life-forms beyond... Read More

Sizzling with restrained eroticism, H. S. Cross’s historical novel "Amanda" is about two lovers driven apart by secrets and brought together again by irrepressible need. In the interbellum period, Marion, who by day worked under a... Read More