In Chad Musick’s novel "From the Lighthouse", a mysterious nonbinary person searches for their place in the multidimensional universe. Musick holds a PhD in mathematics and lectures on knot theory, which informs the novel’s looping... Read More

Jessie Burton’s "Medusa" is a dazzling, engrossing retelling of a classic that’s delivered with a profound feminist twist. Eighteen-year-old Medusa has been exiled to an isolated, rocky island by Athena, who cursed her and turned her... Read More

Rodney Stotts’s heartfelt memoir reveals how he became a master falconer. To expand his drug business, Stotts needed his own apartment. But he had to prove he could afford rent first. He began working with the Earth Conservation Corps... Read More

Tonya Bolden’s "Speak Up, Speak Out!" is a biography for young readers that showcases the inspiring life and accomplishments of Shirley Chisholm. Shirley Chisholm was the first Black woman to be elected to the United States... Read More

Rebekah Iliff’s "Champagne for One" turns myths about solitude on their head. A lighthearted miscellany of stories, poems, and satire, it paints aloneness as something to be prized, rather than pitied. Iliff sets out to banish the... Read More

Immersed in her grief, a woman becomes unable to handle the complexities of worlds beyond her own in Sara Goudarzi’s affecting novel "The Almond in the Apricot". When her best friend Spencer was alive, Emma’s world made sense. She... Read More

Crawford Gribben’s sweeping history surveys Ireland’s grand past—and its importance for Western Christianity. Here, religion is presented as a moving force within Irish history, which is divided into five key movements: conversion,... Read More

Intelligent and humorous, "To Drink and to Eat" covers Guillaume Long’s delightful culinary adventures. Long doesn’t claim to be a food critic, but his work with Le Monde, and his previous volumes of "To Drink and to Eat",... Read More