Witch Queens, Voodoo Spirits & Hoodoo Saints is an enlightening look at those who shaped the unique culture of New Orleans. Each chapter covers an important figure in the history of New Orleans.These include people from history, like... Read More

Afro-Latina Adiba Nelson’s memoir-in-essays Ain’t That a Mother concerns dating, motherhood, parenting a disabled child, and breaking generational habits—as much about reparenting oneself as it is about parenting another. Nelson... Read More

About a place, a past, and an imperiled future, Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s poetic memoir "Thin Places" looks back on what it means to have survived the Troubles in Ireland. Ní Dochartaigh, who was born in 1983 at a midway point in the... Read More

A young giant finds both friendship and duplicity in "The Legend of the Dream Giants", a beautiful illustrated novel by Dustin Hansen. Berg is a giant who lives alone, haunted by strange dreams. He survives by stealing food from the... Read More

Roman historians have cast Hannibal Barca as a cruel, uncouth barbarian, but Philip Freeman’s panoramic biography "Hannibal" supplies evidence that the great Carthaginian military leader, whose strategic and tactical genius has been... Read More

Covering decades’ worth of medical research, "Oncoviruses" is a thorough scientific review. Abubakar Yaro’s "Oncoviruses" is comprehensive in reviewing past medical studies of a subset of cancer-causing viruses. Oncoviruses, Yaro... Read More

Chantal James’s novel "None but the Righteous" follows a man’s lifelong search of truth and meaning. When he’s a teenager, Ham, a foster child who was taken in by sophisticated Pearl and her son, Wally, meets a traveler, Mayfly. Of... Read More

Emilia A. Leese and Eva J. Charalambides’s Think Like a Vegan is a thought-provoking introduction to the ethics of veganism whose message is straightforward: veganism should be the norm. Charalambides and Leese tackle the philosophical... Read More