All’s fair in love and war—though betrayed spouses and mustard gas victims might take issue with that word “fair.” But we get the point: no-one should ever be surprised by anything that happens in the course of courtship or... Read More

Shooting Out the Lights / Kim Fairley / She Writes Press / Softcover $16.95 (288pp) / 978-1-64742-134-2 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Kim Fairley’s sensitive, probing memoir concerns her love for a much older man; their... Read More

Executive Editor Matt Sutherland Interviews Judi Miller, Author of Perfect: A Path to Love, Forgiveness, and Transformation / Fear is funny stuff. Your fear of mice, for example, can be terrifying but it is not of the same magnitude as... Read More

If you think of yoga as a rubber-matted playpen for sculpted, silver-spooned soccer moms with surgically enhanced assets, you haven’t met self-described fat, Black, queer Jessamyn Stanley, yoga teacher extraordinaire and author of the... Read More

Paradise, WV / Rob Rufus / Keylight Books / Hardcover $29.99 (320pp) / 978-1-68442-670-6 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / In the layered thriller Paradise, WV, a rural town suffers from the “municipal leprosy” of the... Read More

We live and breathe book titles in our offices, and when we discovered Gideon Defoe’s An Atlas of Extinct Countries, one thought came to mind: What a “brilliant” title! No one should be surprised that he’s a comedy writer. Then... Read More

Love Me Please! The Story of Janis Joplin / Nicholas FinetChristopher, illustrator / NBM Publishing / Hardcover $24.99 (160pp) / 978-1-68112-276-2 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Janis Joplin’s brief, tragic, and... Read More

Who could seriously argue that teachers don’t play a crucial role in any healthy society? And yet, wages for the profession have always lagged behind the pay workers with similar education levels receive in other jobs, and surveys... Read More