Knowing that grief changes but doesn’t go away, "Shattered but Not Broken" mines personal experiences for lessons on healing. Betty Major-Rose’s memoir "Shattered but Not Broken" has self-help components; it recalls her tremendous... Read More

Music helps a family to heal their broken bonds, moving past hurt silences, in the lovely novel "Water Music". A summer holiday on Cape Cod tests a family’s wills and loyalties in Marcia Peck’s tender novel "Water Music". In 1956,... Read More

Covering a wide range of investment options, the economics text "Level Up!" uses game strategies to engaging effect. Financial professional Keenan Morris’s lighthearted business book "Level Up!" treats investing like a game. Herein,... Read More

In the thriller "Starship Malaysia", a displaced teenager faces down malevolent abductors with the help of new friends. In Keith Costelloe’s thriller "Starship Malaysia", a grieving teenager is caught up in the machinations of a sex... Read More

A hopeless man sets out on a genealogical quest in the empowering novel "Shadow Life". A man’s efforts at self-discovery reveal family secrets and a new way of approaching the world in Micheal Decter’s allegorical novel "Shadow... Read More

Carole Bumpus’s culinary travelogue "A September to Remember" is written in the inviting voice of a learner. Bumpus’s exploration as an American abroad will draw in those who hunger for travel as much as they hunger for flavor. For... Read More

"Have Fun in Burma" follows Adela, just out of high school, through her summer of self-discovery. No pizza binges and thoughtless beachside flings for this heroine, though. Rosalie Metro’s earnest young lead is up for more of a... Read More

When Barbara Amaya was eleven, she ran away from her suburban Virginia home, where she had been sexually assaulted by both her father and her brother. Her early teen years soon became a nightmare of prostitution, drug addiction, jail... Read More