Specificity has a way of creating potency, and in Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn’s essay collection "A Fish Growing Lungs", the power of a well-chosen detail is apparent. Intertwining anecdotes and diaristic, poetic reflections are used to... Read More

New York City breathes through the gritty pages of this contemporary crime novel. In Marvin Koyo’s contemporary crime novel "The New York Sour", a family is forced to confront its demons. This New York sequel focuses on the wide Bracho... Read More

Elegant prose and intimate details elevate Cinthia Ritchie’s mental health memoir "Malnourished" to a requiem for her sister. Ritchie and her three sisters grew up on their stepfather’s farm in rural Pennsylvania. Their mother’s... Read More

A young soldier struggles to find peace and purpose in the aftermath of the American Civil War in Death’s Drummer. The dangers and delights of hunting for gold in post-Civil War America are explored in David S. Leonard’s historical... Read More

In Elliot Reed’s captivating "A Key to Treehouse Living", William Tyce narrates the unusual and personalized glossary of his troubled young life. William was abandoned by his parents and transferred to the custody of an eccentric... Read More

A memoir with elements of self-help woven in, Riding this Electron, Hanging on for Dear Life conveys wide-ranging musings on family and meaning. Tom Zidik’s quirky and ranging memoir "Riding This Electron, Hanging on for Dear Life"... Read More

"Tales from an Uncertain World" by geologist and science educator L. S. Gardiner details various natural disasters, laced through with scientific explanations, elements of a memoir, and artful prose. It thoughtfully, sometimes... Read More