Reaching past the surface of its subjects to excavate everyday wonders, "Out Here" is an appealing collection of local columns. Newspaper columnist Bob Hill’s astute essay collection "Out Here" covers topics including sports, death,... Read More

Misunderstood, atypical coworkers navigate their complicated relationships in the grim, funny novel Golda’s Hutch. In Robert Steven Goldstein’s satirical novel Golda’s Hutch, a corporate leader’s private affairs lead to career... Read More

A boy in a village plagued by Cossack soldiers battles a curse to help his family and friends in the excellent graphic novel "Mendel the Mess-Up". Mendel, who is approaching his bar mitzvah, lives in a remote Jewish village, Lintvint,... Read More

About nurturing one’s inner connection to nature, "Earth Wisdom" is a soothing self-help guide. Equal parts a naturalist’s memoir and a spiritual road map, Jan Hornford’s clarifying self-help book "Earth Wisdom" introduces gentle... Read More

Concentrated on deceptions, doublespeak, and rhetorical loop-de-loops, "The Epic of Chakramire" is an ambitious prose poem whose characters reveal their truths in thick, captivating verses. The evolutions of life on Earth, technology,... Read More

The startling and stunning short story collection "Divine in Essence" is about violence within families, pain, and ecstasy. Yarrow Paisley’s spellbinding short story collection "Divine in Essence" concerns ghosts, possession, violence,... Read More