Reviewed by Leanne Phillips I’m on the seaside deck of a local café waiting for a coffee and looking out over the Pacific Ocean. In the...

by Chih Wang Liz Michalski’s Darling Girl is a reimagining of the Peter Pan world—world because it doesn’t retell the story of Peter Pan...

by Leslie Gonzalez Sabrina & Corina is hopelessly beautiful. In eleven short stories, Kali Fajardo-Anstine weaves soft yet biting tales...

By Melissa Greenwood Emily Rapp Black’s third memoir, Sanctuary, is as stunning and complex as she is. In it, she not only tells the...

by A.E. Santana Maya Miller, née Hildalgo, is the strong, independent woman who has built a life on hard work, dedication, and ignoring...

by Kathryn E. McGee “A price paid in anything less than blood was not a price at all.” Lisa Quigley’s debut novel, The Forest, is an...

by A.E. Santana Ceris Wenden is a spirited, fun-loving young woman looking forward to her upcoming nuptials. But when the Sun God chooses...

By A.E. Santana In 1982, five-year-old Sean Crenshaw and his mother, Susan, are starting fresh in the small town of Greenfield. Although...

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by A.M. Larks I picked up From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home by Tembi Locke specifically because it was a travel...

by A.M. Larks “There’s something primal about a day like that at the beach—it’s all the animals heading to the watering hole. Water is a...

by A.M. Larks California Exposures, by Richard White and Jesse Amble White, is not what you expect, but that of course is by design....

by David M. Olsen Braver Than You Think: Around the World on the Trip of My (Mother’s) Lifetime is more than just a travel memoir because...