In Megan Walker’s wistful Regency romance novel Miss Newbury’s List, a woman is faced with a choice between an aristocratic marriage or unexpected love. Three weeks before her wedding to a duke, Rosalind feels overwhelmed. She’s... Read More

“Mass extinction and social collapse” are “a hard set of lemons to be making lemonade out of,” environmental activist Andrew Boyd admits. "I Want a Better Catastrophe" is his inventive, no-nonsense manual of constructive and... Read More

In Angela Woodward’s ruminative surrealist novel "Ink", everyday life is juxtaposed with testimonies related to war crimes. The skill most appreciated in a typist is accuracy. All Marina and Sylvia know about their new job is that they... Read More

An unhappy housewife learns to cope with loss and trauma in Maki Kashimada’s novel "Love at Six Thousand Degrees". One day, for no apparent reason, a woman leaves her child at the neighbor’s and runs away. Her morbid fascination with... Read More

In Mirza Waheed’s novel "Tell Her Everything", a father prepares to tell his only daughter the truth about his life. Kaiser hasn’t seen his daughter Sara since her mother died and he sent her to boarding school. Now that she is... Read More

Vengeance and justice drive Laura Shepperson’s historical novel "Phaedra", set in Ancient Greece. Phaedra, princess of Crete, lives in the shadow of her sister, Ariadne, a renowned beauty destined for greatness. Though she’s... Read More

The temperate rain forest of the North Pacific coast is so valuable an ecosystem that it has been dubbed “the Amazon of the North.” It holds the world’s tallest trees—“carbon-capturing machines.” In "Canopy of Titans", Paul... Read More

Stark images in black and white lead this sympathetic wordless picture book about a girl who’s enduring the war in Ukraine. Her days are harsh and limited; she feels trapped, and danger exists everywhere. But her fear and despair are... Read More