Influenced by Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, Zackary Vernon’s novel "Our Bodies Electric" is a story of self-discovery set on Pawley’s Island, South Carolina, in the early 1990s. The book begins the summer before sixth grade, when... Read More

N. S. Nuseibeh’s "Namesake" is a brilliant collection of essays threaded together by reflections on an early Muslim warrior. Nuseibeh’s family members believe they are direct descendants of Nusaybah bint Ka’ab, one of the first... Read More

With memoir entries for transgender youths by transgender people, "Becoming Who We Are" is a comics anthology about the process of becoming yourself as a transgender person. It includes essential representation along with a... Read More

In the cheeky fantasy guide "Mythical Monsters of Greenland", an explorer details the best ways to avoid, escape, and placate the wild spirits that inhabit Greenland’s vast wilds. Living off the land in Greenland has never been easy.... Read More

Fungi are the resplendent stars of Krista Towns’s cookbook "Mushroom Gastronomy", a treatise on an alluring variety of edible and medicinal mushrooms. Alongside beguiling food photographs and unusual recipes, the book includes... Read More

As the senior White House correspondent for the nonpartisan Voice of America news network, Steven L Herman had the difficult assignment of covering the Donald Trump administration while it routinely attacked VOA for its commitment to the... Read More

Alex DiFrancesco’s gripping memoir "Breaking the Curse" is about being unheard, misunderstood, abused, and traumatized by family members and society while growing up transgender. In childhood, DiFrancesco was forced to dress and... Read More

Nazis threaten to take over America in Danny Goodman’s poignant alternate-reality novel "Amerikaland". The world’s eyes are on New York City, where World Day, the global celebration of peace, is set to take place, featuring baseball... Read More