The good poet’s body slowly leaves one sex for another and she wonders what else, if anything, will change—the Jewishness that influences so much of her world; the Holocaust memories of twelve murdered ancestors; love and sex; fear... Read More

Evangelical pastor Caleb E. Campbell’s "Disarming Leviathan" is an earnest text that works to understand the phenomenon of rising Christian nationalism in the United States. Following the upheavals of 2020 and 2021, including the... Read More

"No One Talks About This Stuff" is a ranging anthology of frank, humorous essays about facing infertility, pregnancy loss, and childlessness. The twenty-two contributors felt “disenfranchised grief” over pregnancies that did not lead... Read More

A seventh grader meets monsters while traveling with her family in Lisa Naffziger’s graphic novel "Deja Ross Speaks to Freaks". While on vacation with her family in Texas, Deja is excited to enter the territory of an infamous monster,... Read More

In Let’s Get Festive! Joanna Konczak tells the stories of more than thirty holiday celebrations around the world. Packed with interesting trivia, the book is an engaging roundup of the myriad ways that people celebrate. The holidays... Read More

A gentle conservation message comes through in Tom Huddleston’s adventure-filled novel Cosmic Creatures: The Friendly Firecat, wherein a girl visits her aunt on a remote planet—and has to stop intergalactic rustlers from stealing... Read More

Episcopal priests Elizabeth Felicetti and Samantha Vincent-Alexander’s authentic, atypical devotional "Irreverent Prayers" includes petitions for permission to be “pissed off” and to be rescued from the “platitudes of... Read More

"Story of the Everything, the Nothing, and Other Strange Stories" is Gyula Gábor Tóth’s unusual and whimsical collection of illustrated fables. Made up of interactive, silly, and thought-provoking tales, the book includes entries... Read More