"The 3-6-9-12 Diet" is a candid dieting book whose shared calorie-counting method led one woman to weight loss success. Pamela DeSimone’s snappy diet guide "The 3-6-9-12 Diet" reintroduces general dieting principles to those who are... Read More

"The Agent" is an understated mystery about a scam whose perpetrators are motivated by much more than greed. A trio of con artists converges on their latest mark in Marsha Roberts’s mystery novel, "The Agent". Victoria’s business... Read More

PsychiatristAsianAmericanGayGuy wields a wickedsharp wordweapon to explore the dailyplate of complexity handed to him. This debut collection earned Eric Tran the Autumn House Rising Writers Prize in 2019. My Mother Asks How I Was Gay... Read More

Taras Grescoe’s artful and detailed "Possess the Air" draws on letters, memoirs, and secondary sources to chronicle twenty years of resistance to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Set in Mussolini’s Rome, which lives and breathes... Read More

In "Of Green Stuff Woven", theology and pragmatism butt heads, with the fate of the prairie and a Des Moines cathedral hanging in the balance. Brigid, who’s the dean of a historic cathedral, has a crisis on her hands. Her Episcopal... Read More

Parnaz Foroutan’s "Home Is a Stranger" is a personal and political memoir about being a woman, and an Iranian American, in both the US and Iran. Foroutan left Iran when she was six, during the rise of Ayatollah Khomeni. She grew up in... Read More