This is a story of mothers. This is a story of daughters. This is a story of the trauma we carry and the trauma we tend to. So begins this multigenerational memoir that explores...

0.63 seconds. That's the amount of time Angela Brennan has to process the oncoming truck that destroys half of her family and irrevocably alters her life. Not long after the...

Chicago Writers Association Nonfiction Book of the Year (2017) Society of Midland Authors Literary Award in Biography (2017) A tireless champion of the downtrodden, Nelson Algren,...

A professor's life unravels in a darkly comedic tale of obsession, revenge, and psychological breakdown. Ophelia, a Dante scholar, discovers her husband's infidelity and embarks...

This vivid memoir by well-known New Zealand actor and novelist Barbara Ewing covers her tumultuous childhood, adolescence and young-adulthood in Wellington and Auckland in the...

Watch Lucy stay true to herself as she learns how to confront bullying with kindness! Lucy has big hair, eats fun foods–like spaghetti in a hot dog bun–and is teased by a boy...

If you think YOU have a busy schedule, take a look at Ernestine Buckmeister' s weekly calendar: On Mondays she sculpts with Clay Lumpkin. On Tuesdays she does water ballet with...

Sam Holmes is a young, enthusiastic school teacher living an uneventful, albeit pleasant life – even if he won't admit to himself how lonely he is. Dedicated to teaching, and...

Sharon Hashimoto reconstructs a collective memory, conjuring the voices of grandparents, children, soldiers, and " those left to tell." In moving detail, these poems convey the...

Eleven-year-old, Lizzie is minding the family antique store while her grandpa naps on a spindly sofa. When Mrs. Larchmont and her poodle, Giselle, enter and begin their buying...