Elizabeth McGowan lost her father to melanoma when he was forty-four and she was fifteen. She rediscovered him during a bike ride across the US, following her battle with the same disease. Joyful, introspective, terrifying, and sobering,... Read More

Set during the German occupation of the Netherlands, "The Vision of Antje Baumann" is a historical novel that is horrifying and hopeful by turns. Laurence Powers’s moving historical novel, "The Vision of Antje Baumann", concerns the... Read More

"I Was Hitler’s Baker" is a disturbing and timely historical novel in which a driven, cruel, and merciless man rises to power. In Glenn Peterson’s compelling historical novel "I Was Hitler’s Baker", an ordinary man has a chilling... Read More

"More than We Bargained For" is an enthralling immigrant’s story about overcoming adversity. John Stefanini’s memoir "More than We Bargained For" tells a hopeful story of emigration from post-WWII Italy to Canada in the late 1950s,... Read More

Both a memoir and an exploration of a mother-daughter bond, "The Goodbye Diaries" is a moving story told through two voices: those of a then-teenaged daughter and her terminally ill mother. Using both of their journals as source... Read More

“Like anyone on the uphill side of middle age,” newscaster Abigail Waite had “secretly harbored a hope that she was unique in all the world and the day would never come for her.” But she’s just been diagnosed with stage III... Read More