In the emotive novel Frank’s Shadow, a man’s complicated relationship with his father shapes him in both positive and negative ways. In Doug McIntyre’s novel Frank’s Shadow, a middle-aged man seeks self-understanding while coping... Read More

"Running Up the Mountain" is a fascinating insiders’ account of a collegiate cross-country team’s improbable rise. Matt Baxter and Ron Mann’s inspirational sports history book "Running Up the Mountain" covers the growth of Northern... Read More

In Beatrice Bowles’s fantastical coming-of-age story "A Ring of Riddles", a fifteen-year-old girl receives a mysterious ring at her grandmother’s funeral. "A Ring of Riddles" contains several subplots that are introduced early in the... Read More

Karina Shor’s graphic memoir "Silence, Full Stop." covers her self-destructive teenage years in Israel and her repressed trauma. Shor felt like an outsider from her childhood in Moldova onward. Asked by classmates if she favored the... Read More

A battle with drug addiction is supplanted by a bicycle-powered birding road trip in Dorian Anderson’s gripping memoir "Birding Under the Influence". Anderson was an addict. Whether he was strung out on the drugs and alcohol he abused... Read More

Martin Stevens’s "Secret Worlds" is a brilliant book on animal perception—the astonishing sensory adaptations that birds, insects, and other creatures evolved for their survival. Humans share five senses with animals; animals have... Read More

Adam Goodheart’s book "The Last Island" collects compelling and tragic anecdotes about various failed efforts, from the Victorian age to the present, to encounter and establish permanent contact with perhaps the last self-isolated... Read More

The complex flavors and textures of eight types of traditional regional Chinese cuisines are demonstrated with style and aplomb in this visual treat of a cookbook. Céline Chung was born in France to parents from the Zhejiang province.... Read More