A woman allies with vengeful river spirits in Lynn Hutchinson Lee’s eerie novel "Origins of Desire in Orchid Fens". In Carminetown, Orchid and her mother hide their Romani identity to prevent another forced exodus. At the nearby orchid... Read More

Shelley Fisher Fishkin’s "Jim" is an encyclopedic work of literary criticism that celebrates Mark Twain’s classic. "Jim" contends that readings of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as racist have missed Twain’s use of irony to... Read More

First published in 1962, Edith Bruck’s masterful short story collection "This Darkness Will Never End" bears witness to the atrocities of World War II and the lives of those affected by the Holocaust. Hungarian-born Bruck was liberated... Read More

Two friends deal with the loss of their former bandmate in Magnus Merklin’s moving graphic novel "DiSCONNECT". After forming their band in high school, three twenty-year-old friends look forward to the future. But one dies, and a year... Read More

Tamara Dean’s introspective memoir-in-essays "Shelter and Storm" is about sustainable living in a Wisconsin farming community. Pursuing a “new beginning,” Dean left the city and purchased a small farm in a southwest Wisconsin... Read More

A singular window into the horror of life in Nazi Germany, Charlotte Beradt’s anthropological study addresses the dreams that she and her fellow German citizens began having after Adolf Hitler came to power. A haunting approach to the... Read More

A perfectionist pianist learns to let loose in this melodic picture book. Hannah dreams of being a professional musician, selecting Swan Lake as her piece for a school concert, but she can’t shake a stubborn wrong note. When the wrong... Read More

Christopher Hawkins’s punchy speculative novel "I Contain Multitudes" mixes a heady multiverse concept with an intimate story of self-discovery. Trina is on the run from a past she can’t remember. With each passing day, she finds... Read More