By Chance Alone tells the harrowing true story of Tibor “Max” Eisen’s imprisonment in concentration camps across Europe during the Holocaust.  Eisen’s experience begins with his middle-class upbringing in a small Slovakian town. Set against the background of authoritarian, fascist regimes emerging...

Lindsay Wong grew up believing that “crying will turn you into a zombie.” Over the next 304 pages of abuse and arguments, she doesn’t cry once. Wong’s memoir The Woo-Woo weaves superstition into her daily life, leaving nothing to the imagination.  The darkly comedic story tackles the normalization...

Abu Bakr’s response to a bombing in his hometown: go to his cousin’s house and play FIFA 13.  While this might seem like an inappropriate reaction, it makes perfect sense in Bakr’s and Winnie Yeung’s Homes.  The book is a true account of Bakr’s own journey growing up in war-torn Syria and eventually...