"Popol Vuh" is an immersive, inventive reinterpretation of a Mayan creation myth. Jemshed Khan reengages the Mayan creation myth Popol Vuh by reimagining the Hero Twins and their tumultuous time in the underworld. Complemented by surreal... Read More

A mother and her daughters stave off the end of the world in Donya Todd’s fantastical graphic novel The Witch’s Egg. Urfi, a cat witch, summons an angel in the hope of finding love and starting a family. The relationship doesn’t... Read More

In Irena Karafilly’s haunting novel "Tunes for Dancing Bears", a woman gives birth to a stillborn child and struggles with the shock and grief that follows. In September 1991, Lydia delivers a full-term baby in a Montreal hospital.... Read More

Pulling an esoteric topic toward public awareness, Frauds, Phones & Fingerprints is an accessible guide to identity theft and contemporary methods of combating it. An engaging insider’s analysis, Almis Ledas’s Frauds, Phones... Read More

A teenager on a farm shoulders increasing responsibilities to help her family and community in the moralistic historical novel "Gold". The fourth book in a series, Linda Jane Niedfeldt’s standalone historical novel "Gold" is about an... Read More

A prized violin becomes akin to a living, breathing object within a musician’s family in the wrenching, informative memoir "Made in Italy". Thomas Walter Kelley’s memoir "Made in Italy" recounts his and his wife’s astonishing time... Read More

Oil & Water is a thoughtful feminist novel in which an intellectually hungry young scholar comes into her own. In Destiny Kinal’s speculative historical novel Oil & Water, women set out in search of the mythical cave of the... 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