Eun’s fiction contrasts familial or societal obligations with an undertow of erratic impulse or emotion. Nobody Checks the Time When They’re Happy, a collection of short stories by Heekyung Eun, peers into the lives of various South... Read More

Kellie Wells seems never to have met a sentence she couldn’t enhance, a list she couldn’t extend, or a story she couldn’t send airborne. The fifteen contemporary fables of underdogs, oddballs, and misanthropes in Kellie Wells’s... Read More

In this incisive work, a veteran newsman explores modern media and why we have become so vulnerable to “alternative facts.” "Overload" is news veteran Bob Schieffer’s insightful take on modern journalism, presented with the able... Read More

What the handbook proves unequivocally and strikingly is that the LGBT community is not going away, and businesses must take notice or be left behind. The "Handbook of LGBT Tourism and Hospitality", by Jeff Guaracino and Ed Salvato,... Read More

Jones’s story has come full circle: she’s clean, out of the closet, and back home. For Sammi Jones, an MFA program in creative writing may have taken her to the inauspicious location of Fargo, North Dakota, but it was joining a... Read More

This excellent work on depression should be required reading for therapists and those suffering from the disease. James Manning’s "How to Befriend, Tame, Manage, and Teach Your Black Dog Called Depression Using CBT" shows that, like a... Read More

This eyewitness account of the beginning of WWI is engrossing and detailed. In his brief, engrossing eyewitness-to-history-style memoir, "An Adventure in 1914", American lawyer T. Tileston Wells recounts his experience in Europe at the... Read More

The lessons waiting for young readers in "Roar Like a Girl" are powerful. Coleen Murtagh Paratore’s "Roar Like a Girl" is a sweet story about a young girl struggling with change. Willa loves her life in the Cape Cod community of... Read More