Told with the thoughtful reflectiveness of a practiced yogi but with persistent emotional immediacy, Michael Shandler’s KARMA & KISMET is an excellent memoir of both...

Through powerful storytelling and unflinching honesty, Ernestine Whitman's COUNTERMELODIES: A Memoir in Sonata Form transcends genre boundaries—providing both a strong critique of classical music's patriarchal...

Michael C. Higgins's EXPLORING WINE REGIONS: MEXICO is a well-organized, beautifully illustrated guide that promises to be of substantial use for travelers wishing to experience...

Although this complicated life story would benefit from a clearer chronology, Julia Antoinette Rosenstein's LAST BOHEMIAN: The Life and Times of Jonathan David Batchelor Part...

Garrick Jones’s THE PERFUME OF WAR has a fun premise, some interesting historic detail, and a few brisk action scenes for a story that works...

Though well-imagined and well-voiced, Deborah Mistina’s IMBER doesn’t quite cohere as well as it should.

Kendrick Gatchuissi's THE PHOENIX AWAKENS offers up a heroic teen character who is easy to root for, but the book’s brevity means that his tale...

Through a veil of mysticism and cozy tea-drinking perfect for an autumn night, Sherri L. Dodd's MOONSET ON DESERT SANDS offers a quirky cast of...

Glen Loveland’s first book, BEIJING BOUND: A Foreigner Discovers China, is an endlessly fascinating snapshot of life in Beijing at the very beginning of the...

Nathalie Bujold Ryan’s HARPAZO: Book One of the Trib Trilogy benefits from good dialogue and characterization.

Jerome J. Bourgault's DAY OF EPIPHANY is a powerful, affecting account of life in Catholic-run Canadian orphanages during the Duplessis era.

With self-deprecating wit, accessible language, and flashes of hard-won enlightenment, Thomas Kudla's WAKING UP AT THE GATES: POEMS OF RECOVERY, HEALING, & TRANSFORMATION finds unexpected...