A young girl learns about empathy and consequences when she hears a story and takes on the perspective of one of her dolls. "The Bedtime Story" is a simple tale about the consequences of our choices. Victoria Phillips has taken an issue... Read More

The Pink Panther meets the twenty-first century in this hilarious noir parody. The first in a planned series, "The Corsican Dove" kicks off the investigative adventures of Ramone Ramone, a gumshoe in the tradition of Jacques Clouseau.... Read More

As she learns about love, Angelique is realistically, fallibly human, which is this story’s greatest strength. An intelligent young woman must come to terms with her troubled youth as she emerges from adolescence into adulthood. In... Read More

This fascinating assessment of our waste-based way of life equips us with knowledge on what to do about it. Tom Szaky’s "Outsmart Waste" is a very smart book about a dirty topic. As founder of TerraCycle, a company that devised a... Read More

Heartrending subject matter conveyed in poetic prose excavates pain from the realm of memory. Dig with a pen, said poet Seamus Heaney. Kathryn Winograd uses a pickax to excavate old pains and buried memories as part of a personal... Read More

Miller’s language becomes rapt, even poetic, when recounting compelling scenes of the African plains. In "The Shameless Full Moon, Travels in Africa", former journalist and longtime traveler Carol Miller describes the continent as a... Read More

Neil’s college theatre group and family members strike a chord with their vivid realism. "The Isolation Door" is the first novel of journalist Anish Majumdar, a man of complex heritage. Bengali-born, raised in Montreal, and currently... Read More

Starbuck offers a refreshing account of an unselfconscious woman in her seventies, through lusty poetry. Kathryn Starbuck began writing poems in her sixties in response to the deaths of several family members—hardest of all, the death... Read More