Language is under constant interrogation and scrutiny in the acerbic, pandemic-set satirical novel "Fragility". In Portland, Oregon, during the early days of COVID-19, the characters in Mosby Woods’s illustrated speculative novel... Read More

Written with the belief that listening to the stories of others is a powerful tool for building empathy, "More Than Merely Eyes Can See" is a thoughtful community project. Susan Carey’s humane community memoir "More Than Merely Eyes... Read More

Rejecting a family tradition of silence to catalog inherited and individual wounds, "Little Boy, I Know Your Name" is a powerful memoir. Mitchell Raff’s forthright memoir "Little Boy, I Know Your Name" centers on his relationships with... Read More

"The Book of Daniel" is a unique coming-of-age story that’s steeped in the paranormal. Sean Ian’s imaginative novel "The Book of Daniel" incorporates Gothic horror and the paranormal into an old soul’s coming-of-age story. A New... Read More

"Look toward the Rising Sun" is a striking historical novel about growing up Black and middle class in the Jim Crow era. In Sarah Smith Ducksworth’s historical novel "Look toward the Rising Sun", a Black girl comes of age in Jackson,... Read More

Friendly and wise, the poems collected in "Connections" muse through heady contemporary topics. Pairing text with photographs, Ian Stott’s poetry collection "Connections" distills wisdom from lived experiences. Written in a friendly,... Read More

Empathetic and persuasive, the memoir "Traveling Solo" shares an end-of-life story alongside a cautionary tale about avoiding the false promise of phony cures. Written in anticipation of her planned death, Diana E. Williams’s memoir... Read More

In Michael J. Malone’s supernatural thriller "The Murmurs", a hidden family history in the Scottish Highlands carries a terrible cost. A drowning and a suicide shatter the childhoods of Annie and her twin brother Lewis. Annie loses... Read More