Family secrets have an outsized spiritual influence in Liz Prato’s virtuoso historical novel "Purgatoire". Near the Purgatoire River in Colorado at the turn of the century, mining industries start up, attracting European immigrants.... Read More

The sumptuous photography of Sophie von Oertzen Williamson’s "The Art of the Clash" illustrates the design principles behind her distinctive and colorful approach to interiors. Williamson’s guiding mantra is based in the power of... Read More

Queer Black author and professor Tisa Bryant’s bold, inventive autobiographical essay collection is about memory, grief, home, and belonging. The hybrid essays combine poetry, stream-of-consciousness prose, scraps of dialogue, lists of... Read More

Laura B. McGrath’s "Middlemen" is a thorough, diverting investigation of the role literary agents play in the creation of book markets and reader tastes. “No figure has been more significant, and yet more invisible, in American... Read More

Israelite twins with healing gifts feature in Sharon Reiss Baker’s suspenseful historical novel "Last Days in Moav", about family duty and finding the courage to love. Decades after his ancestors’ exodus from Egypt, Netanel dies in a... Read More

Though dismissed by the adults around her, Frida, an aspiring detective, is on the case of the Jibberjack, a monster terrorizing the town of Rumorridge. Trampled tulips, muddy slides, and missing pigs are all blamed on the menacing... Read More

The brave, probing essays in Anna Badkhen’s "To See Beyond" address global issues including climate change, economic inequality, immigration, colonization, and genocide. The twenty-three essays in this collection cover a vast physical... Read More

An advertising professional is hired to train an artificial intelligence bot in Justin Feinstein’s gripping epistolary novel Your Behavior Will Be Monitored. UniView is at the forefront of artificial intelligence development,... Read More