In the inventive short stories of JoeAnn Hart’s Hudson Prize-winning collection "Highwire Act", people face catastrophes and discover connections with animals. Some of the stories are set in the real world; others occupy a speculative... Read More

Equipping its audience with confidence for their own growth from trauma, "The Unspoken" is a compelling memoir about progressing from pain to health. Ashley Haseotes’s "The Unspoken" is an intimate memoir about trauma and healing.... Read More

Digital Executor is a helpful business development book with specific advice for managing a person’s online world after they die. Sharon Hartung’s Digital Executor is a timely and fascinating guide to managing the digital affairs of... Read More

Happiness studies have shown repeatedly that people with accumulated wealth are less fulfilled than those with little money. How, then, to explain the glorification of profit and the insatiable quest for riches that pervades our culture?... Read More

This comforting guide is a calm, logical how-to on understanding and dealing with autistic behavior. Children who fall within the autism spectrum can exhibit behavior that’s baffling, frustrating, even maddening to those who care most... Read More

At times poetic, and always redolent of the blues, "The Butterfly Lady" is a brilliant portrayal of the anguish of being a black, gay man in a world incapable of recognizing the humanity of one deemed an outsider. When the Butterfly... Read More

The idea of the classic newspaperman is fading into the mists of time, as nonfiction becomes, for many purveyors, more about grabbing attention than in-depth writing. Luckily, William Zinsser is still among us; in "The Writer Who... Read More

By her early forties, Susan Cummings had compiled an eclectic resume: a stint teaching in Cairo, a period in Paris, years acting on stage in Manhattan. She had also discovered a calcification in her breast. A mastectomy removed the... Read More