The members of an Algerian immigrant family cope with their losses but retain their dignity in Faïza Guène’s novel "Discretion". Yamina left Algeria for the first time as a child, during the war with France in the 1950s. Since then,... Read More

Grant Hayter-Menzies’s heartwarming memoir "Freddie" is about the rescue dog who became his rescuer. Part Pomeranian, Freddie was rescued from a hellish existence with an animal hoarder. He endured hunger and fear before Hayter-Menzies... Read More

Wickliffe W. Walker’s "Torrents as Yet Unknown" shares the awe and thrill of exploring remote canyons via the pioneers who’ve run their rapids. Walker is a champion whitewater paddler who’s led expeditions in Bhutan, Pakistan,... Read More

In Eugen Bacon and Andrew Hook’s literary science fiction novel "Secondhand Daylight", time travel complements a search for belonging. Green is an outsider who has no ambition, family, or friends. The peak of his week is going to the... Read More

In his memoir "A Fine Line", Graham Zimmerman reflects on the dangers and demands that mountaineering exerts on those who feel its lure. By his mid-thirties, Zimmerman had already been named New Zealand Alpinist of the Year and awarded... Read More

"Presner the Remarkable" is a reflective novel in which an underdog dissects his idolization of an old friend. A wedding prompts a midlife crisis in Don Eron’s tragicomic novel "Presner the Remarkable". Presner once attended law... Read More

In Jente Posthuma’s bittersweet novel What I’d Rather Not Think About, a woman who is bereft after her twin brother’s suicide searches to understand his mental illness. The fraternal twins at the center of the story have peculiar... Read More

In her memoir "What You Don’t Know Will Make a Whole New World", librarian Dorothy Lazard reflects on her childhood through the neighborhoods of California’s Bay Area. As a girl in St. Louis, Lazard would often wander her... Read More