The Irish Princess

by Karen Harper Penguin, $15,00, 406 pages The Fitzgeralds were considered Irish royalty when the English Tudors deposed them in 1533. Harper journals the young Elizabeth Fitzgerald from the imprisonment of her father in the Tower of London and the siege of her...

Scars

by Cheryl Rainfield Westside Books, $16.95, 248 pages Cheryl Rainfield’s account of a teenage cutter, Scars, is a poignant, fictionalized story based on the author’s own self-harming episodes. Fifteen-year-old Kendra is struggling to recall the identity of her sexual...