Archaeology department graduate students encounter more than mere relics on an expedition gone wrong in Ella Alexander’s wry novel "The Sleeping Land". Kit, Val, and Mark exist in uneasy alliance under their department head, George, a... Read More

"The Passion Gap" is an empathetic guidebook to achieving personal fulfillment. Philip F. Hsin’s thought-provoking self-help book "The Passion Gap" is about finding meaning, purpose, and lasting joy. One of four children, Hsin was nine... Read More

A moralizing novel, "The Emancipation of William Jones, Jr." focuses on a boy’s coming-of-age in a hardworking turn-of-the-century ranching community. In Judith A. Perkins’s novel "The Emancipation of William Jones, Jr.", a boy grows... Read More

In K. M. McKenzie’s spirited fantasy novel "The Civilization", a skeptical girl with a heroic destiny learns about dark magic threats to the enchanted, hidden world of her ancestors. Raised by her rambling, nomadic grandfather in North... Read More

Inheritance of Crises and Dysfunction is an ambitious political novel in which a single man attempts to heal a fractured world. In James J. Maiwurm’s zigzagging political thriller Inheritance of Crises and Dysfunction, a retired lawyer... Read More

Laura Pritchett’s "Playing with Wildfire" is a rare climate novel of now. It begins in late August, as a megafire started by a visiting hiker sweeps through Colorado along with COVID-19. Prose, poetry, plays, government grant... Read More

In her candid, inspirational memoir "The Only Way Through Is Out", Suzette Mullen traces the events leading to her midlife coming out—and her decision to leave her marriage, choosing “desire over safety.” As an empty-nester, while... Read More

"The 5-Day Job Search" is a career guide that draws on personal experience to deliver advice for succeeding in interviews and working toward professional success. Leading by example, Annie Margarita Yang’s career guide "The 5-Day Job... Read More