Sharon Beth’s research into family genealogy provides the fodder for this memoir, a skillfully unfolded detective story.

Like many Americans, Beth took up the mantle of family genealogist because no one else was making a record. A Gen Xer, she became proficient in mining public documents, analyzing Ancestry.com data, and conducting interviews with her oldest […]

The Grammar Kingdom serves as an instructional guide to teach young readers about parts of speech.

The book is instructive, without an overarching plot. The kingdom it describes is populated by frogs, and each frog serves a grammar-related role. For example, the king is a noun; each of his sons is a type of noun […]

Alicia Cahalane Lewis’s wholly arresting hybrid project, Nefertiti’s Tomb is an intriguing and ambitious exploration of history, philosophy, myth, and prose poetry.

The work is arranged in nine sections, with each poem (some untitled) centered on the page surrounded by significant white space. This visual suggests more is unknown/unsaid about these subjects than is known […]

Guy M. Girardi shares the step by step how-to of his investing system and techniques in the information-packed guide The Investing Machine.

The book is a manual for investors who favor an active approach rather than a buy-and-and-hold strategy. It begins with the origins of Girardi’s system, which was inspired after he suffered large stock […]

Proven in Blood is an action-packed historical novel about a WWII military unit made up entirely of Japanese Americans and Hawaiians.

The story follows Daniel Tanaka, a student at UC Berkeley and baseball star in 1941 who is sent, along with his family, to an internment camp after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. After months […]

Instantly immersive, Tess Collins’ A Wave of Breath hurls readers into a terrifying vision of the near future where resilience is the currency of life and death.

Following a disastrous Water Event that has left the city parched and plummeting into gangland anarchy, San Francisco is a haunted, hungry shell of itself. Brooklyn Tremain, once […]

This poignant and absorbing novel by Canadian-based visual artist Rina Pita imagines the life and love affair of her deceased, beloved aunt.

The book’s events span the years 1918 to 1920 in the town of Antofagasta, Chile, examining the way the lives of protagonist Rita and her family are touched by political and social unrest, […]

In this book, a young boy named Fledgling is guided by his family and teacher to help him recognize when he’s feeling anxious and overwhelmed and learn to regulate his emotions.

Using an analogy of flying a plane, with an adult “flight instructor” helping a child have a “smooth flight,” the authors use a five-propeller […]

Author John Garry’s An Unfair Advantage provides strategies and tactics for entrepreneurs to build credit as fast and reliably as possible.

Entrepreneurs and business owners seeking to expand their operations need capital. That usually means bank loans and lines of credit. But the sub-prime mortgage meltdown of 2007 drove lenders to replace personal relationships of […]

This midcentury memoir of a young woman’s adventures in San Francisco reads like a West Coast Breakfast at Tiffany’s, told in a conversational style. Frequently laugh-out-loud funny, it offers a nostalgic look at the City by the Bay during one of its heydays.

Susan K. Darby graduates college with few ambitions beyond falling in love, […]