Beautiful and emotional, "Posthumous" is about Ellie, a twelve-year-old girl trying to deal with her mother’s death. Life in Paris is pretty great for Ellie and her parents. Ellie’s father, Calvert, works for the man who would have... Read More
Laura Wolfson worked, traveled, and eventually married in the Soviet Union toward the end of the Cold War. Despite being fluent in Russian, she struggled to understand her Russian spouse’s insistence that having children would require... Read More
In "Amla Mater", Devi Menon presents the sweet and nostalgic story of Mili, a woman who recalls her past in India from her new home in the United Kingdom. For Mili, it’s an amla, or Indian gooseberry, that triggers her series of... Read More
Animal mothers of all shapes and sizes lavish their little ones with love and affection in a series of sweet poems celebrating nature, wildlife, and the special bond forged through nursing. Tigers, seals, dolphins, pandas, and other... Read More
Hermann Hesse’s "Singapore Dream and Other Adventures" is a time capsule of Southeast Asia in the early twentieth century, as well as an intimate diary in which can be found the creative seeds that would germinate in Hesse’s later... Read More
A juvenile fantasy with heart, "Babble Magic" is ideal for anyone looking for something fresh and new in the world of witches and wizardry. A menagerie of enchanted animals teaches a crotchety old sorcerer and his young apprentice some... Read More
Selraybob is an unexpected protagonist whose journey is satisfying and thoughtful. A humorous and engaging fictional memoir, "The Unlounging" relates an existential crisis. When the book begins, Selraybob is sitting in his lounger,... Read More
The Butcher’s Daughter follows a Tudor English girl, Agnes Peppin, from the cocoon of her youth in her small market town, to consignment to a nunnery after an out-of-wedlock pregnancy, through to her wiser, bittersweet middle... Read More