A spider-thief, a slave, and a woman with hidden darkness inside team up to save the world in Brenda J. Pierson’s Arabian-inspired fantasy novel "Joythief". Mariq is a pampered princess in Kuriza by day and a gifted spider-thief for... Read More

"The Queering" is a riveting novel in which an older lesbian makes a delayed choice to shout out the truth, no matter the consequences. A seventy-year-old closeted lesbian writer faces her past in Brooke Skipstone’s intense,... Read More

Woylies, jerboas, and other creatures populate Tracey Hecht’s winsome Nocturnals companion The Nocturnals Explore: Unique Adaptations of Nighttime Animals. Dawn, a red fox, invites her friends Tobin the pangolin and Bismark the sugar... Read More

In Kevin Lichty’s whimsical novella "The Circle That Fits", a boy raised in a carnival seeks a steady life. Daniel grows up beneath the flashing lights of the midway, where people’s screams of joy belie dark realities that slink out... Read More

A woman with a traumatic past comes under her neighbors’ suspicion when a child is kidnapped in the surprise-filled mystery novel "The Worm Man". In Mary Frances Hill’s thrilling small-town mystery novel "The Worm Man", a girl’s... Read More

Heather Camlot’s "The Prisoner and the Writer" tells the story of the Dreyfus Affair for early readers. In 1895, Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason against France. He was sentenced to prison on remote Devil’s Island, where he... Read More

Gioia Guerzoni’s "I Miss You" is a beautiful book of exercises designed to quell longing for absent people, places, and things. This work recognizes a variety of scenarios in which one might yearn. For those missing a person, the book... Read More

Coming-of-age and coming out collide in Felice Cohen’s poignant memoir "Half In". When Cohen was a twenty-three-year-old recent college graduate, she faced her future with uncertainty. She hoped to become a full-time professional... Read More