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 D. Bondy’s historical novel about clerical sexual abuse, "[non]disclosure", a survivor finds the courage to tell her story. As a girl at a Catholic school, the unnamed narrator is taught that the reward for confession is no... Read More

In Let’s Get Festive! Joanna Konczak tells the stories of more than thirty holiday celebrations around the world. Packed with interesting trivia, the book is an engaging roundup of the myriad ways that people celebrate. The holidays... Read More

With elements of magical realism, Tathagata Bhattacharya’s rollicking satirical novel "General Firebrand and His Red Atlas" covers the machinations of political alliances and regimes. On the Indian subcontinent, the guerrillas of Sands... Read More

The mishaps and successes of an immigrant entrepreneur are mined for lessons in the edifying memoir "At the Corner of Destiny and Ingenuity". Iranian entrepreneur Paul Owhadi’s picaresque memoir "At the Corner of Destiny and Ingenuity"... Read More

The education-minded economic guide "Intelligent Investing" introduces the stock market from multiple angles. John Cousins’s financial guide "Intelligent Investing" draws upon personal experiences and the wisdom of business giants like... Read More

An incurable, inexplicable condition brings humanity to the breaking point in Kevin Prufer’s novel "Sleepaway". They call it “the sleeps.” This strange phenomenon works its way across the world, forcing whole communities asleep for... Read More

A vibrant memoir, "It Was Her New York" weaves a tangled web of cultural memories. C. O. Moed’s "It Was Her New York" is a moving, unconventional memoir that blends personal and cultural history to explore the process and aftermath of... Read More