Struggling with tragedy, fear, and uncertainty, the characters of Erin Cecilia Thomas’s entrancing, woman-centered short story collection "I Watched You from the Ocean Floor" find hope through human connection and resilience. Easing... Read More

Chloé Caldwell’s inventive memoir "Trying" recreates her years of attempting to become pregnant. Caldwell devoted much of her thirties to trying to get pregnant via intrauterine insemination. She developed rituals to ease the grueling... Read More

A compelling anthology of stories by American immigrants who left behind torture, civil war, disasters, human trafficking, and minority persecution, "Kitchens of Hope" illuminates the solace and comfort found in traditional recipes.... Read More

"Hello? Who Is This? Margaret?" is a funny and heartfelt essay collection that models leaping into the unknown and growing into oneself in the process. Dani Alpert’s descriptive memoir-in-essays "Hello? Who Is This? Margaret?" muses... Read More

The nurturing self-help workbook "Go Within to Change Your Life" issues an open invitation to transformative healing. Carl Greer’s transformative self-help workbook "Go Within to Change Your Life" promotes healing and self-discovery... Read More

In Sherrilyn Kenyon, Hinako Hishinuma, and Madaug Hishinuma’s thrilling novel The Secret War, a boy learns the true fate of his family while facing great evil. Ryuichi grew up feeling ignored and invisible despite the lineage of his... Read More

The flavors of Atlanta’s Buttermilk Kitchen—famed for its dazzling breakfasts and lunches—shift to coastal Maine in Suzanne Vizethann’s "Brunch Season", an inviting cookbook. Puzzled by brunch’s unpopularity at culinary school,... Read More

Revenge, murder, and gender-based hypocrisy in communist China drive the unsentimental narrative of Fang Fang’s short novel "The Running Flame". Yingzhi lives in a small village in the Chinese countryside. Desiring more than what her... Read More