A child sets out on a fantastical journey of gratitude in this engrossing picture book. The illustrations defy characterization, with elements of geometric abstraction, neo-Impressionism, and linocut techniques all layered together in a... Read More

Set against cultural and generational tensions in the American South, historian Timothy Silver’s gritty true crime book "Death in Briar Bottom" covers a 1972 incident involving free-living hippies, conservative law enforcement... Read More

In Tammy Oberhausen’s piercing, entertaining historical novel "The Evolution of the Gospelettes", a religious Kentucky family spends decades performing together. In the 1970s, the Holliman patriarch, Garland, is inspired by his... Read More

The fresh, informative essays collected in "Sex Work Today" concern challenges faced by those engaging in modern erotic labor. According to the authors in this collection, the stigma and stereotypes surrounding erotic labor often obscure... Read More

A gay high school senior confronts the tragic murder of his beloved in Mason Stokes’s novel All the Truth I Can Stand. Ash, still grieving his deceased mother, joins the backstage of his local college’s Oklahoma! production. He... Read More

A white dwarf rabbit brings a refugee family together in Edward van de Vendel and Anoush Elman’s novel "Mishka". Roya and her family are refugees from Afghanistan. When they learn that they have been permitted to stay in the... Read More

Jessica Friedmann’s essay collection "Twenty-Two Impressions" sheds novel light on the potential of the tarot to guide how people move through and experience life. The text opens with an in-depth exploration of the history of the... Read More

Jessie van Eerden’s glittering essay collection Yoke & Feather is a work of exquisite longing marked by keen reflections on biblical tales. Beginning after van Eerden’s divorce, these intimate essays trouble through relationship... Read More