A historic Michigan wildfire inspires Linda Gruenberg’s sensitive novel Blazes & Brimstone, in which a boy teams up with his family during a crisis. In October of 1871, a forest fire encroaches upon eleven-year-old Lyle’s... Read More

In Akbar Hussain’s crime thriller "Truth Is a Flightless Bird", a man races to rescue a pregnant woman from Nairobi’s violent underworld. Nice would do anything for her unborn child, including smuggling drugs into Nairobi. Nice’s... Read More

A gay couple deals with distance and temptation in Floor de Goede’s graphic memoir "Dancing on the Volcano". Flo and Bas have been together for three years, but Flo is visiting the Aeolian Islands and will be apart from Bas for ten... Read More

In his visionary memoir-in-essays "Without Saints", Christopher Locke freezes the past, covering enforced religiosity, self-destructive habits, his marriage and fatherhood, and teaching. In a framework that mimics the nature of memory,... Read More

Amir A. Rashidian’s "Cracking the Stress Secret" uses evidence-based medicine to demonstrate how one’s diet, exercise, and lifestyle choices work alongside stress management to improve their overall health. When he was nine,... Read More

"Conspiracy" is a fascinating, timely psychological study of those who believe conspiracy theories and of the elusive truths behind those beliefs. Citing an astonishing range of examples, the book defines a conspiracy as two or more... Read More

Amy-Jane Beer’s memoir "The Flow" is about the drowning of a friend and how it almost destroyed her love for rivers. In 2012, Beer’s friend group set out on a New Year’s Day kayaking trip. One friend, Kate, never came home. For... Read More

A twisting tale of deception and overlapping mysteries, Briana Cole’s psychological thriller "Behind Her Lives" follows a woman who refuses to believe that her younger sister is dead. Deven is overwhelmed. Her relationship with her... Read More