Award-winning Japanese author Shion Miura’s latest novel is a moving coming-of-age story about Yuki Hirano, an aimless 18-year-old city boy. We meet Yuki as he’s embarking on a year-long forestry apprenticeship that his parents hope will help him mature.

Gina Frangello’s latest book, Blow Your House Down, tells the story of how she left her bad marriage in explosive fashion and is a testament to a woman’s power to make choices for herself, even if they’re deeply unpopular.

At the intersection of the 2020 Black Lives Matters protests in Washington, DC and the COVID-19 pandemic, Priyanka Surio has reassessed what it means to be a mindful and responsible citizen of the world.

This profound memoir traces Nyamayaro’s path from near-starvation to world-recognized humanitarian leader. Far more than just an inspirational story, I Am a Girl from Africa presents a practical and poetic roadmap for changing the world.

Recent college graduate Amy Dong’s collection of connected essays explores what it means to grow up, at home and abroad, and what happens when life doesn’t go according to plan.

In Damascus, Rana and her friends live in bright apartments full of hope, as they watch the Egypt Spring unfold on TV and wonder if their Syria would be next. But it’s in the drab apartment blocks in England that Rana looks back at her promising college career and the many kilometers she walked and rode overland hidden in a frigid fruit truck to what she thought would be safety in the UK.

Jessica J. Lee travels to her mother’s birthplace of Taiwan to trace her grandparents’ background, something they rarely spoke of while they were alive. Lee is an environmental historian, and she leans on this expertise to braid the conventional trappings of memoir with a geological understanding of Taiwan’s mountainous regions, rivers, and forests.