Michelle Yang – Phoenix Girl
Michelle Yang’s new memoir, “Phoenix Girl,” is an inspiring story of resilience, reclamation, and learning to rise from the fire instead of being consumed by it.
Carolyn Larkin Taylor – Whispers of the Mind, a Neurologist’s Memoir
Dr. Carolyn Larkin Taylor turns inward in “Whispers of the Mind, a Neurologist’s Memoir.” Intimate essays on the quiet beauty found at the edge of life and memory.
Dr. Marissa Toussaint – Flambeau Kitchen
In “Flambeau Kitchen,” Dr. Marissa Toussaint stakes a claim: that culinary heritage and long-term wellness need not stand in opposition.
Mark Murphy – Rose Dhu
Hear the Conversation | Get the Book Savannah knows how to keep a secret. It is a city that appears to exhale its past: warm, humid, and faintly perfumed by the sweet decay of magnolia. Its historic squares, verdant, geometric, and improbably serene, feel like rooms in an open-air...
Nancy Shear – I Knew a Man Who Knew Brahms
In mid-century Philadelphia, before backstage access required a security badge and a retina scan, there existed certain portals through which a determined teenager might slip. The stage door of the Academy of Music was one such loophole. Through it, Nancy Shear began a lifelong occupation of the...
Mark Peres – The Accord
In The Accord, author Mark Peres explores grief, love, and the blurred lines between human and machine through the bond between a professor and her sentient AI.
Gil Gillenwater – Hope on the Border
Meet Gil Gillenwater — real-estate guy, Harley fan, and founder of Rancho Feliz. For 40 years he’s helped families along the U.S.–Mexico border with one surprising motto: Helping others should be fun.
C.B. Wilson – The Fire Diamond
What happens when a gemologist writes a thriller? You get “The Fire Diamond”! We chat with author CB Wilson, about her new book, the high-stakes world of jewel thieves, and her “diamond detective” protagonist.
Raymond E. Foster – Chasing the Surge
Raymond E. Foster is a man who has lived more than one life: former lieutenant of the LAPD, Coast Guard veteran, police scholar, Mason. Then, he chose something totally different, a driver for hire, ferrying strangers through the city’s sleepless arteries. His new book, Chasing the Surge: Ten...
Heather Ogden – The Betrayal
In a world where loyalty can be the sharpest weapon and truth itself is treason, debut novelist Heather Ogden invites us into the haunting depths of her new dystopian fantasy, The Betrayal—the first in The Lies We Fear series.
Stephen K. Postema – Running Around Town
Stephen Postema started running in Kindergarten. His strides through Ann Arbor, Michigan in the 60s and 70s became a metaphor for a city and nation in evolution.
Sam Daley-Harris – Reclaiming Our Democracy: Every Citizen’s Guide to Transformational Advocacy
Sam Daley-Harris has updated and expanded his classic work, Reclaiming Our Democracy: Every Citizen’s Guide to Transformational Advocacy. And it’s become a playbook for positive change.