You-Gin One-Gin: Sort of a Novel by Douglas Robinson is a reimagining of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin that moves between stage script, campus novel, and literary commentary. The book begins with a theatrical adaptation of Pushkin’s verse novel, presented as a college production that immediately foregrounds...

Mud, Microbes & Medicine by Elizabeth Reed Aden is a memoir that is definitely a study in two parts. As a young PhD anthropology student in the 1970s, the author sought a topic for her doctoral thesis. Searching the world for a suitable environment, she...

CeCe the CEO Starts a Lemonade Stand by Nathan and Heather Pease is an engaging children's picture book that follows CeCe, a determined young girl with a lovely business idea. CeCe loves all kinds of lemonade, especially lemony-lemon lemonade. One day, she decides to share her...

The Rubicon Leader presents leadership change as a permanent shift in identity produced through action over time. Vahab Hasiri explains that people change when they stop treating behavior as something to negotiate and instead act in ways that force the brain to update who it...

Monkey Morales: The True Story of a Mythic Cuban Exile, Assassin, CIA Operative, FBI Informant, Smuggler, and Dad by Sean Oliver and Ricardo Morales, Jr., is an expansive biography that follows the extraordinary life of Ricardo “Monkey” Morales, a figure who moved through some of...

The impact of symbolic systems on human awareness provides the background to The Cosmological Mind by Anthony L. Canali. He reflects that the role of the media in forming opinions has led to media bias. It has also become a source of entertainment rather than...

I Can’t Believe I’m Not Dead by Kendra Petty is an account of her remarkable life. Petty has undergone more negative experiences than any human being should have, including being abused as a child, fighting extremely serious diseases, and being the target of a murder...

Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote, "Home is the nicest word there is." That’s exactly what Brownie, a stray dog, hopes for in Brownie’s Adventures: Island Tales of a Dog from Trinidad by Manuela Giger. Every day, she wanders the beaches and sidewalks of Trinidad, hungry not...

Shell Seeker: The Life, Work, and Adventures of a Blind Biologist by Suzanne Sherman is a story of resilience and a love for science. Geerat lost his sight at the age of three due to glaucoma. But instead of it being an impediment, this awakens...

Rachel Bennett Steury’s Losing My Kidney and Finding My Voice tells the story of how she chose to become a living kidney donor for a stranger. Her family already had a connection to organ donation through her Uncle Ed, who was a deceased donor. Because...

Anne-Laure Le Cunff’s Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World is a pioneering book that reveals the secrets to finding balance, being productive without burnout, and discerning what matters most even when life seems messy. The book proposes a framework for pursuing...

Meredith Rutter Marple's I Live You For Ever is a memoir that documents her husband Gary’s descent into dementia and her role as a caregiver. The memoir captures her experiences, thoughts, and reflections, starting on May 14, 2010. She notices the mild slips, like memory...

The Power to Say Yes! by Christine Assouad aims to help career women find meaning and balance in life. Women in business have to deal with issues like motherhood, managing a home, and societal pressures that make them feel either not enough or guilty for...

Mastering the Game of Servant Companies is a business book that treats business as a “game” rather than a war, and asks you to choose and play that game in a very different way. Alaauldin AlFar walks you through three big stages: Prepare to Play,...

In Failure to Treat, Dr. Peter Kowey opens the doors of modern American medicine to show what can happen after a patient seeks help and enters a system that no longer moves in step with doctors' diagnoses. Dr. Kowey provides comprehensive case studies that begin...

The Happy Healthy Revolution by Theresa Y. Wee, M.D., is a well-written book that aims to strengthen the family unit and guide readers toward improving their physical and emotional health. The author begins by writing about her background growing up in the 1960s and 1970s,...

I Can’t Do This! I Can by Marian M.H. Rutt is one of the most powerful and deeply moving memoirs I have read. Marian and her husband Phil were living a wonderful, successful life. When Marian became pregnant, they were delighted and prepared for the...

In Dance While the Fire Burns, Deborah Ann Lucas traces a life marked by repeated upheavals as her childhood moves give way to adult years shaped by almost every conceivable calamity, and the ongoing presence of horses and art as the only stable parts of...

Elba Kramer: The True Autobiography of a Pathological Liar by Steve Goldsmith follows the true story of a youth from his early childhood to his late teenage years. Elba Kramer didn't have the most ideal childhood. His father was an Air Force pilot who met...

Hack Your Blood Sugar by Karen Kennedy offers a clear, practical guide to understanding how blood sugar affects overall health and how individuals can use continuous glucose monitors to gain insight into their bodies. The book begins by explaining why blood sugar matters, emphasizing that...