Kendra Atleework’s radiant, wrenching memoir "Miracle Country" probes a home and its heartbreaks for meaning. Atleework was raised in the Eastern Sierra, in spaces threatened by fire and droughts: “on this obsidian edge of... Read More

Three troubled but tough generations of women, all molded and wounded by the Pentecostal culture around them, are celebrated in Kelli Jo Ford’s masterpiece, patchwork novel, "Crooked Hallelujah". Religion became a source of both... Read More

Ryad Girod’s haunting novel, Mansour’s Eyes, is threaded with Middle Eastern cultural and geopolitical sagas. Hussein was an anguished observer on the day his friend, Mansour, was led through the streets and decapitated in the main... Read More

An old octopus weaves a tale of mystery and magic for a gathering of young sea creatures who get caught up in the spell. The book’s beautiful full-color spreads and panels are interspersed with black-and-white line drawings as a white... Read More