The Odyssey Decoded: Cracking the Code of Homer's Epic by Adrian Solas offers a fresh entry point into one of the oldest stories in Western literature. Rather than simply retelling Homer's epic, Solas walks readers through each episode of Odysseus's journey, then pauses to unpack...

When Mimi Nichter boarded a Trans World Airlines flight on September 6th, 1970, she was focused on resuming her studies at George Washington University after a productive trip to Israel. She never in her wildest dreams expected that this flight would put her in a...

Jerry Morton’s memoir, Finding My Way, traces a remarkable life across the American landscape, from being born into a roving Coast Guard family through the rough Wisconsin subdivisions, Pittsburgh suburbs, and Illinois trailer parks, to college in Kentucky, Army service at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina,...

Dale Zurawski’s The Travel Bitch: Bouncing Across the Globe on a Bipolar High really begins after an Amazon trip sends her back to childhood, in a home changed by her father’s death. Later, a bipolar diagnosis gives a name to the behavior that had already...

I expected to find a compendium of philosophical sayings and thoughts in B. R. Jallipalli's Waves of Thoughts: Thoughts That Changed the World, but discovered something meticulous and thoughtful. It is a book that shows how thought evolved from the time of primitive survival to...

Naturalized US Citizen by B. K. Kishore traces the author’s journey from his childhood in post-independence India to his naturalization as a US citizen. Drawing on personal experiences, historical events, scientific achievements, and cultural reflection, the book presents a detailed account of a life shaped...

Elaine Hsieh Yu’s Ugly Dumpling: A Memoir follows the author’s childhood after immigrating from Hong Kong to Hawaii in the 1970s, where she grows up in poverty with her mother and brothers after a violent separation from her father. Yu describes vivid scenes of life...

In January 1879, thirty Ponca set off on a six-hundred-mile journey. Earlier, the United States government had forced the Ponca to leave their Nebraska homeland and move to the so-called “Indian Territory,” or what would become Oklahoma. There, with inadequate government support, the Ponca suffered....

People in Black History: Famous African Americans by Hugh Smith is a collection of stories and fun facts about Black people who have made outstanding achievements in various fields. The book covers Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, and many others remembered as icons in the arts...

Toronto Graffiti by Yvette Farkas shows the human behind the artwork, giving rare insight into the movement that helped define the 1980s. This stunning book documents the oral history of this movement and how these artists shaped the landscape of Toronto with work that moved...