"The Spa at Lavender Lane" is a charming novel about women at a crossroads and the desires that they hide under their beautiful surfaces. In Phyllis Melhado’s entertaining ensemble novel, The Spa at Lavender Lane, women bond during a... Read More

From the turn of the twentieth century into the present, the defiant and vivacious characters of Sarah Leipciger’s "Coming Up for Air" refuse to be suffocated by others’ expectations. In Paris, the haunting death mask of an unknown... Read More

Salma is excited to prepare a traditional homemade foul shami with chickpeas, garlic, lemon, and parsley for her homesick mother, but she soon realizes that even if she could remember the recipe, she doesn’t know the English words for... Read More

Dot and Duck are back for another tale of friendship, manners, and lighthearted humor. When Dot decides that she absolutely must have everything that Duck tries to play with, she takes things right out of his feathered hands without a... Read More

A snooty panda and zebra pair refuse to play with Filippo the flamingo because he is “too pink.” It all seems black and white to Filippo who begins to hate his rosy feathers. His story illustrated in shades of grey with bold pink... Read More

“Dangerous the epiphany that you are old enough to have a history”: like a bullet through a pane of glass, so begins Julie Marie Wade’s hellacious essay collection, "Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing". In her nonlinear cavalcade of... Read More

Journalist Lauren McKeon interrogates the insidious and invisible power structures that keep women down, and shows how women “disrupt and reimagine” those structures, in "No More Nice Girls", a book all about the paradoxes of... Read More

In Susan M. Gaines’s intricate and informative novel "Accidentals", a twenty-three-year-old, Gabriel, takes an unexpected voyage with his mother, Lili, back to her native Uruguay. To do this, Gabriel quits his well-paying yet... Read More