When Leah Webb’s first baby developed serious food allergies and intolerance, the public health professional retooled her family’s diet and adopted a hypervigilant awareness of foods. When her second child was diagnosed with cystic... Read More

Born in the mid-1800s, Fanny Bullock Workman was a trailblazer, garnering mountain-climbing records in a male-dominated sport and fighting for women’s rights years before the Nineteenth Amendment became law. Cathryn J. Prince’s... Read More

“This shallow, diarrhea-splattered horror was my actual life,” writes Moby after a particularly brutal night out. In "Then It Fell Apart", Moby, the once globally famous musician, picks up where his first memoir, Porcelain, left off,... Read More

The twenty-one authors who contributed to "Becoming Dangerous" are witchy and wise, “a coven of weird women playing and sharing with one another.” This essay collection describes the many ways that women, femmes, and non-binary... Read More

Vanda Symon introduces a cheeky, brave new heroine in "Overkill", the first in her Sam Shephard series of mysteries set in New Zealand. When Sam, the lone officer in tiny Mataura, is called in to investigate a missing person case, she... 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

"Beyond the Sea of Life on a Bridge Called Why" is a intriguing speculative work that mines religion and history for meaning. Joel M. Levin’s "Beyond the Sea of Life on a Bridge Called Why" gathers much together to explore the meaning... Read More

When Isla Bell is a teenager, she discovers three dead bodies propped against a wall during her morning run. In Emma Kavanagh’s "I Am Watching", there is a lone survivor of the attacks: one of the victims’ teenage brothers, Ramsay,... Read More