Laws regarding classroom science curricula are examined in Alexander and Harold Gouzoules’s deft history book The Hundred Years’ Trial. The Gouzouleses’ scientific and legal expertise informs this fascinating history, which moves... Read More

The life, career, and activism of actor George Takei are chronicled in the stirring graphic novel "It Rhymes with Takei". Takei gave up studying architecture when he heard the siren call of the stage. Despite the limited roles available... Read More

An orphaned girl with supernatural powers uncovers a troubling family history and evidence of betrayals in the fantasy novel "The Witch-Hunt", the first in a series. Neil R. McLaughlin’s series-opening fantasy novel "The Witch-Hunt" is... Read More

An oenophile’s mystery novel, "Lies in the Cellar" features a part-time sleuth who benefits from the help of her friends. A Sonoma winery, murder, and the search for a historical treasure combine in Parker French’s fun mystery novel... Read More

Dizzying visions haunt the otherwise delicate beauty of Frederic S. Durbin’s supernatural novel "The Country Under Heaven". Since surviving the Battle of Antietam, Ovid experiences the intrusion of premonitory shimmers. As he migrates... Read More

In Cynthia Pelayo’s novel "Vanishing Daughters", a woman haunted by grief is stalked from the shadows of her waking and dreaming lives. After Bri loses her mother, Aurora, to cancer, she takes over the house that has been in her family... Read More

Time travel is used to address the climate crisis, growing class inequality, and the looming threat of social collapse in the startling science fiction series opener "Hive". In DL Orton’s cautionary science fiction novel "Hive", the... Read More

Laura J. Martin’s "Wild by Design" is essential reading, raising pertinent questions about what it means to be “wild” in an era of widespread ecological disruption. The concept of wildness itself is called into question via... Read More