Romance and intimacy are not pathways to anyone’s happily-ever-after in the poems of "The Thorn Key", whose entries are seamless in reimagining fairy tales in the context of feminist values. Folklorist Jeana Jorgensen’s muscular... Read More

Told from a child émigré’s perspective, "Grappling with Ghosts" is a timely memoir about international displacement. James Harvey’s insightful memoir "Grappling with Ghosts" is about his nomadic, chaotic childhood and the... Read More

"The Color of Mourning" is an unsettling, immersive novel about religious oppression in the Middle East. In Kim Dempster’s harrowing novel "The Color of Mourning", a Syrian mother and daughter struggle following the brutal takeover of... Read More

The traumas of war are handled with nuance in the historical novel "The Sooner You Forget", about coming home and reconciling oneself to the past. Christopher Bensinger’s wrenching historical novel "The Sooner You Forget" is about an... Read More

An intelligent hero pursues his wife’s killer across an empire in the action-packed science fiction novel "First Elite". In Emmanuel M Arriaga’s thrilling science fiction novel "First Elite", galactic soldiers struggle between duty... Read More

The church in which an expectant mother sought refuge becomes the source of her troubles with her son in the moving novel "The Gift". In Scott Terry’s decades-spanning historical novel "The Gift", a vulnerable young mother-to-be is... Read More

Taking a rational, scientific approach to marketing campaigns, "Outmarket the Competition" is an exhaustive and informative business guide. Nick Doyle’s savvy business book "Outmarket the Competition" includes advice for increasing... Read More

Black students and their white teacher brave persecution in Wilfred Lupano’s moving, enlightening graphic novel "Surrounded". In 1832, Prudence Crandall’s decision to admit Black girls to her Connecticut boarding school draws the ire... Read More