Both a memoir and an exploration of a mother-daughter bond, "The Goodbye Diaries" is a moving story told through two voices: those of a then-teenaged daughter and her terminally ill mother. Using both of their journals as source... Read More

Danish scientist Rikke Schmidt Kjaergaard started to feel unwell on a New Year’s Day walk with her family. After a cascade of increasingly violent symptoms, the thirty-eight-year-old was rushed to the hospital. Her heart stopped and... Read More

Karin Anderson’s "Before Us Like a Land of Dreams" is a narrative extravaganza that ponders the bristled roots of ancestry, unbroken by time or place, and the muddled truths and fallacies of family history that inform who we believe we... Read More

Heidi James’s "So the Doves" triumphs with just the right blend of psychological suspense and lilting prose that practically dances off the page. Spanning over two decades, the slim but mighty novel tells the story of Marcus, a... Read More

Music journalist and professor Vivien Goldman was at the moshy, grotty heart of the 1970s and 1980s punk scene, working, playing, and even recording with other musicians. Her extensive firsthand knowledge is combined with two years of... Read More

Dark, emotional, and incredibly creepy, Sean Padraic McCarthy’s "In the Midst of the Sea" is an unsettling supernatural thriller. Diana agrees to move to Martha’s Vineyard with her husband Ford and their young daughter Sam, but she... Read More

Born in the mid-1800s, Fanny Bullock Workman was a trailblazer, garnering mountain-climbing records in a male-dominated sport and fighting for women’s rights years before the Nineteenth Amendment became law. Cathryn J. Prince’s... Read More

“This shallow, diarrhea-splattered horror was my actual life,” writes Moby after a particularly brutal night out. In "Then It Fell Apart", Moby, the once globally famous musician, picks up where his first memoir, Porcelain, left off,... Read More