"Maya Blue" is a startling memoir about the long road to recovery from trauma. Brenda Coffee’s gripping memoir "Maya Blue" is about being the wife of an addict and a survivor of kidnapping and sexual assault. Though the book is divided... Read More

Original wordplay and quirky rhymes vivify the illuminating poetry collection The Lotus Eaters. Peter Dabbene’s musical poetry collection The Lotus Eaters clothes its sly cultural allusions in traditional literary techniques.... Read More

The lyrical, hard-hitting essays in Catherine Coleman Flowers’s collection "Holy Ground" synthesize history, science, and faith. The recipient of a MacArthur “Genius Grant” for her environmental activism, Flowers spent decades... Read More

A lyrical poetry collection, "An Absence of Fear" denies death’s finality even as it mourns great human losses. Holly Peppe’s precise poetry collection "An Absence of Fear" confronts the emotions surrounding death, from astonishment... Read More

Using humor as an educational tool, Duncan Watson’s charming memoir Everyone’s Trash reveals recycling secrets and stories about detritus. After earning a master’s degree in resource management in the early 1990s, Watson started a... Read More

In Renée Schaeffer’s distinctive novel "Ageless", an immortal woman struggles through centuries of tremendous social, scientific, and political changes. Naissa is born into a loving family in 1850, but she loses them to shellfish... Read More

Flush with primary sources and seeking to hold rapists accountable in the wake of its subject’s death, "Hometown Betrayal" is a passionate true crime story about justice denied. Through family testimonies and meticulous research,... Read More

Making a spiritual argument that leaders should prioritize community needs over corporate profit expectations, "The Experience" is an insightful businessman’s memoir. Douglas Harland’s amiable memoir "The Experience" explores his... Read More