Tracy Farr’s carefully crafted literary novel "The Hope Fault" explores what family means when it’s placed beside the weight of history. The story is set in the fictitious Australian town of Cassetown, Geologue Bay, where Iris and... Read More

A bit of a fish story (if fish were replaced with political fisticuffs), Frank Capra’s "Cry Wilderness" follows a fictionalized Capra to a wilderness cabin in the high Sierra and into local politics, where two long-term... Read More

Six by Ten: Stories from Solitary, edited by Mateo Hoke and Taylor Pendergrass, compels change by giving a voice to the voiceless. Solitary confinement is one of the dirty little secretes of America’s criminal justice system; sure,... Read More

In tammy lynne stoner’s quietly powerful "Sugar Land", Dara is in love with a woman—her best friend, Rhodie. But that is a sin in 1923 in Texas, and it’s one that Dara decides to root out of herself by any means possible. That... Read More

Lee Wind’s insightful "Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill" follows fifteen-year-old Wyatt as he comes to terms with his sexual orientation, thanks to the surprising revelations of a class assignment on Abraham Lincoln. Wyatt is gay, but he... Read More

Forty eclectic examples of living large with less are brought to the fore in "Micro Living", Derek Diedricksen’s latest pioneering lifestyle work. The book spans the gap between veterans of the sustainability movement and those who are... Read More

"Queen of Kenosha" introduces Nina Overstreet, an aspiring performer in the 1960s Greenwich Village music scene who becomes intimately involved in the covert world of Nazis and secret ops. The first book of Howard Shapiro’s Thin... Read More

Tristan Gooley’s "The Nature Instinct" is an approachable scientific guide that uses observations of the sky and the wild to reteach human instincts thought to be lost to technological advancements and modern indoor living. Gooley, an... Read More