In the late 1800s, the wonders of electricity transformed the American landscape—streetlights, streetcars, engines in factories—in perhaps human history’s greatest game-changing technology. And in the following handful of decades,... Read More

The Gifts We Keep / Katie Grindeland / Ooligan Press / Softcover $16.00 (256pp) / 978-1-947845-06-0 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / In her novel The Gifts We Keep, Katie Grindeland layers revelations over... Read More

The Book of Flora / Meg Elison / 47North / Softcover $14.95 / 978-1-5420-4209-3 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / In the aftermath of Nowhere, but still carrying the legacy of the Unnamed with them, Eddy, Ina, Alice, and... Read More

Imagine owning a little farm with cows, goats, pigs, and chickens. In your daily chores, you often catch yourself smiling at the personalities of your animals and even give them pet names based on their antics. Intellectually, your role... Read More

Dutch Girl / Audrey Hepburn and World War II / Robert Matzen / GoodKnight Books / Hardcover $27.95 (400pp) / 978-1-73227-353-5 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / Audrey Hepburn, with her fresh innocence, gamine ways,... Read More

The ironic fact that so many powerful and successful contemporary women refuse to identify as feminists—the same feminist movement that did so much to help these women achieve their empowered status in the first place—points to... Read More

Let’s take a moment to look back at the twentieth century in order to appreciate the stunning changes wrought by the two great wars. “Appreciate” may be the wrong word in solemn remembrance of the Holocaust, but from the standpoint... Read More

A Piglet Named Mercy / Kate DiCamilloChris Van Dusen, illustrator / Candlewick Press / Hardcover $18.99 (32pp) / 978-0-7636-7753-4 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / Fans of the Mercy Watson easy chapter series will... Read More