Shooting Out the Lights / Kim Fairley / She Writes Press / Softcover $16.95 (288pp) / 978-1-64742-134-2 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Kim Fairley’s sensitive, probing memoir concerns her love for a much older man; their... Read More

Paradise, WV / Rob Rufus / Keylight Books / Hardcover $29.99 (320pp) / 978-1-68442-670-6 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / In the layered thriller Paradise, WV, a rural town suffers from the “municipal leprosy” of the... Read More

Love Me Please! The Story of Janis Joplin / Nicholas FinetChristopher, illustrator / NBM Publishing / Hardcover $24.99 (160pp) / 978-1-68112-276-2 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Janis Joplin’s brief, tragic, and... Read More

In My Past Life I Was Cleopatra / A Skeptical Believer’s Journey through the New Age / Amal Awad / Murdoch Books / Softcover $20.99 (296pp) / 978-1-911632-95-5 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Part memoir, part... Read More

Honey Mine / Collected Stories / Camille RoyEric Sneathen, editorLauren Levin, editor / Nightboat Books / Softcover $17.95 (352pp) / 978-1-64362-074-9 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Camille Roy’s rich literary... Read More

Antiman / A Hybrid Memoir / Rajiv Mohabir / Restless Books / Hardcover $27.00 (352pp) / 978-1-63206-280-2 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Rajiv Mohabir’s poetic memoir Antiman traces colonialism’s ongoing legacy... Read More

The Pepperstorm / Tormenta de Pimienta / Rafael OrdoñezMarisa Morea, illustrator / nubeOCHO / Hardcover $15.95 (44pp) / 978-841767380-2 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Crayon-like illustrations and a cool palette with... Read More

A Ghost in the Throat / Doireann Ní Ghríofa / Biblioasis / Softcover $16.95 (224pp) / 978-1-77196-411-1 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / History mutes women; it also depends on them. This paradox is at the heart of a A... Read More