An elliptical novel that integrates the death of a lineage into a reflection on personal mortality, Kat Meads’s "Dear DeeDee" recasts the unresolved stories of a Southern paternal line. Rooted in North Carolina, the Meads family line... Read More

Creepy and sensual, The Taxidermist’s Lover is a gothic romance about a young woman who’s obsessed with her much older husband’s taxidermy practice. Scarlett, with her lifelong fascination with dead animals, finds her match with an... Read More

The seven mini-biographies of Diana Gruver’s "Companions in the Darkness" cover historical Christians, from Martin Luther to Martin Luther King, Jr., who wrestled with their mental health. Gruver’s depression was diagnosed during her... Read More

In 1854, Virginia Reeve stands in front of a Boston court, accused of the kidnapping and murder of wealthy socialite, Caprice Collins. Reeve, the leader of an all women’s expedition to the Arctic, juggles what to withhold and what to... Read More

A girl’s bravery is rewarded with a psychedelic underwater adventure in this work of magical realism. Tiny lives on a lakeshore with her older sister, whose determination inspires her to answer a question that’s been lurking... Read More

Sergeant Yes Means Yes from the Consent Cavalry– you can call them “Sarge”—is here to answer thorny questions about consent in Isabella Rotman’s approachable graphic novel A Quick & Easy Guide to Consent. Accessible and... Read More

Patrick Samway’s literary history portrays editor Robert Giroux’s relationship with confessional poet and writer John Berryman. Giroux, who published most of Berryman’s books in the US, studied with the poet at Columbia. They... Read More

Jimena Canales’s captivating popular science text "Bedeviled" concerns the conceptual “demons” that drive scientific innovation. While scientists reject notions of demons in religions and superstition, Canales says, they also... Read More