This valuable contribution to geopolitical discourse draws important lessons from history. Alfred W. McCoy is perhaps best known for his valuable books on the CIA’s role in the Southeast Asian opium trade and on Cold War-era torture.... Read More

"A Murder in Music City" imparts a great sense of 1960s Nashville as it unfolds an old crime in the present day. Eighteen-year-old college student Paula Herring was shot dead at her mother’s Nashville home in 1964, with her young... Read More

Carleigh Baker’s characters can’t seem to hide their quirkiness—their oddities stick out, obvious to everyone but them. They’re all uniquely inept and unqualified to deal with the situations they’re in, whether it’s marriage,... Read More

Detailed world-building and a dynamic heroine make this fantasy novel stand out. Roxanne Bland’s "The Moreva of Astoreth" adds elements of alien worlds, living gods, adventure, and a heroine with depth to deliver a thoroughly... Read More

This is a light, frothy confection of an apocalypse story, filled with soapy drama, cringe-worthy antics, and campy horror. Camp meets the occult in Laurence MacNaughton’s "A Kiss Before Doomsday", the second installment in a new... Read More

These novellas probe the complexities of modern love and the work that is required to sustain it. Beautiful and heartbreaking, Where the Survivors are Buried, by Nava Renek, is a poignant exploration of everlasting love. Containing two... Read More

This is a master class experience on the art and science of illustrated poetry. Xianna Michaels’s "The Alchemy of Illuminated Poetry®" is a surprising and successful hybrid of poetry and prose that serves as a meditative experience. A... Read More

Peterson’s (dark) humor and willingness to share help make this an accessible introduction to a complex but unquestionably important moment in our cultural relationship with HIV/AIDS. Since the early 1980s, HIV/AIDS has consumed... Read More