A literary oxygen mask and a paean to health care workers, psychiatrist David Kopacz’s understanding self-help book illustrates how relatable and treatable issues like burnout are. Kopacz, having himself experienced burnout, notes that... Read More

In Nicole M. Wolverton’s hair-raising thriller "A Misfortune of Lake Monsters", a teenager who fakes cryptid sightings confronts a monster from her nightmares. Lemon knows that Old Lucy isn’t real. Her family has been responsible for... Read More

A girl in a whaling village investigates several disappearances in Crystal J. Bell’s mesmerizing historical novel "The Lamplighter". Even as self-reliant eighteen-year-old Temperance mourns her father, who was hanged, she takes up his... Read More

Pulling from personal experiences, pop culture, and social analyses, J. R. Yussuf’s "Dear Bi Men" is a tender and insightful guide to claiming one’s identity. Yussuf—who is Black and bisexual—found that his upbringing colored his... Read More

Rebecca Kormos’s sociology text focuses on the disparate involvement of women in the climate change movement. Women bear the global brunt of climate change, from droughts and extreme temperature fluctuations to the ravages of flooding,... Read More

"Arctic Traverse" is a captivating memoir about a fifty-eight-day trek across remote arctic terrain in northern Alaska. During his “990-mile summer,” Michael Engelhard backpacked and floated the length of the Brooks Range, from the... Read More

A determined, empathetic woman works to preserve the stories that others dismiss in Valérie Perrin’s scintillating novel "Forgotten on Sunday". Orphaned as a toddler and raised by her grandparents, Justine could be cynical at... Read More

An amiable career guide written with a mentor’s tone, "How to Get a Job and Keep a Job" aims to nudge young professionals in the right direction. Attorney Keith Calhoun-Senghor’s blunt career guide "How to Get a Job and Keep a Job"... Read More