Matthew L. Schuerman’s measured "Newcomers" examines gentrification and how it impacts cities for good and ill. Terms are defined with care in the text, which argues that new people moving into older urban neighborhoods don’t create... Read More

Straightforward and heartfelt, the memoir "Fostering and Us" focuses on a family’s contributions to dozens of children’s lives. Marie Coady’s memoir "Fostering and Us" is about the highs, lows, and long-term connections formed... Read More

Chris Fink’s intricate and melancholic story collection "Add This to the List of Things that You Are" focuses on people in the moments that could come to define them. Fink’s characters seem resigned to their respective fates even as... Read More

Teen drama and the ups and downs of being gay and out in high school dominate Julian Winters’s heartfelt young adult novel How to Be Remy Cameron. Remy—who’s a teenager, gay, adopted, and black—has been assigned an AP English... Read More

"Munching on the Sun" encapsulates what it is like to have big questions about life while you’re falling in love and growing up. Mark Paul Oleksiw’s realistic coming-of-age novel "Munching on the Sun" focuses on an emotional young... Read More

"Lakes of Mars" is an epic science fiction adventure, full of arresting action sequences and thoughtful meditations on pressing topics. Gritty, mysterious, and layered, Merritt Graves’s "Lakes of Mars" is an intricate story in which... Read More

"The Purple World" is a powerful and insightful text that forwards suggestions for common sense health care reform. Joseph Q. Jarvis’s personalized "The Purple World" focuses on health care and navigates partisan lines with skill,... Read More

"The DNA of Democracy" is a thorough and praise-filled history of democracy. Richard Lyons’s political history "The DNA of Democracy" lauds human progression from the tyranny of ancient civilizations toward the democracies of the early... Read More