Give it up for The Road to Healing: A Civil Rights Reparations Story in Prince Edward County, Virginia, detailing one of the most despicable episodes of government-sponsored racism ever to mar the reputation of our country. You should... Read More

What we call science fiction is a conundrum—considering the fact that cell phones, the internet, 3D printing, and so much else in our world would have qualified as the stuff of science fiction only fifty years ago. So, what is sci-fi?... Read More

FOREWORD’S LIT HIT—INDIE BOOKS THAT’LL BLOW YOU AWAY / Give it up for Biddy Mason Speaks Up, the latest release in Heyday’s Fighting for Justice series profiling superstars of civil rights and social progress for young readers.... Read More

Tonic and Balm / Stephanie Allen / Shade Mountain Press / Hardcover $22.95 (208pp) / 978-0-9984634-3-8 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / Decades after twentieth-century pharmaceuticals, urbanization, and television put... Read More

We’re a fearful species, us humans. Even in this age of relative peace and prosperity, our fight or flight instinct is honed so keenly even unexpected loud noises cause us to jump out of our boots. Thankfully, we’re not often chased... Read More

As the creative geniuses behind graphic novels continue to push the genre in unexpected, sometimes ill-advised directions—The Scratch-n-Sniff Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man Cookbook, anyone?—we’ve spotted a bit of a trend in the way... Read More

We Are Family / Fabio BartolomeiAntony Shugaar, translator / Europa Editions / Softcover $18.00 (288pp) / 978-1-60945-503-3 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / “How the hell do you start a letter to the UN?” If... Read More

Book of the Day Roundup All the Wild Hungers / A Season of Cooking and Cancer / Karen Babine / Milkweed Editions / Softcover $16.00 (184pp) / 978-1-57131-372-0 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / Achingly sad and... Read More