In Varley O’Connor’s historical novel "The Welsh Fasting Girl", Sarah Jacob is a humdrum farm girl. When she stops eating in the 1860s, she swiftly gains notoriety throughout the United Kingdom and United States, becoming the... Read More

After the big-budget Aquaman movie release in 2018, Danielle Paige and Stephen Byrne continue the momentum in 2019 with a story focusing on another character from the Aquaman universe: Mera. Published under the DC Ink label for young... Read More

In Lynn Lurie’s "Museum of Stones", a woman experiences parenting as a cross between profound love and constant, only sometimes low-grade terror. Swinging between the past and the present, the novel moves from the mother’s rough... Read More

Carolyn Kirby’s "The Conviction of Cora Burns" finds twenty-year-old Cora Burns desperate to discover what’s hidden in her memory’s shadows. It’s 1885, and she’s a child of the system. Raised in the Union workhouse, transferred... Read More

"Thomas Merton Meets the Unspeakable" is a concise presentation of the facts and events surrounding Merton’s death. The 1960s were grim, marked by the assassinations of prominent activists, peacemakers, and politicians. In "Thomas... Read More

"A Dream for Peace" is an insightful memoir about a life of international diplomacy that makes a heartfelt plea for unity. Freedom fighter and globe-trotting diplomat Ghoulem Berrah’s memoir "A Dream for Peace" is an inspiring,... Read More

Thoughtful, inspiring, and moving, This Place: 150 Years Retold collects ten tales about the Indigenous communities of Canada and their troubled relationship with the country’s non-Indigenous inhabitants. The talented writers and... Read More

Set in a time and place when humans have already nearly destroyed the Earth once, Alex Lyttle’s "The Rise of Winter" is a richly imagined middle grade fantasy about a young girl who joins with a select group of animals to protect the... Read More