When it comes to raising queer kids, families need true acceptance to thrive, but getting there can be a challenge. "Raising LGBTQ Allies" helps schools, mental health professionals, religious leaders, and families understand and create... Read More

In the political thriller "The Maltese Attack", headstrong young people are swept into an international power play. In Jay Perin’s thriller "The Maltese Attack", two young people become political pawns to a Libyan coup. In the early... Read More

The two story lines of Ames Sheldon’s historical novel "Lemons in the Garden of Love" focus on important eras for women’s rights. In 1977, Cassie, who just married traditional Martin, is living in Minnesota and searching for a... Read More

Viliam Klimáček’s historical novel is both heartbreaking and hopeful as it shares the stories of families displaced by the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. When the Warsaw Pact countries invade Czechoslovakia in August of 1968,... Read More

“Denying parts of who we are can create acceptance, and it can also tear us apart”: this conundrum is central to J.R. Jamison’s memoir "Hillbilly Queer", about how accompanying his father to his fifty-fifth high school reunion... Read More

Steven Raichlen’s "How to Grill Vegetables" is an instant classic that brims with imaginative treatments of fruits and veggies, whose natural sugars reach “supernatural sweetness” when altered with smoke and fire. Plant ingredients... Read More

Antoine Volodine’s superb post-exotic novel "Solo Viola" imagines a society that’s one step removed from reality. With a narrative spiced up by absurdity and a dead serious message, this is a brisk, engrossing, and phantasmagorical... Read More

Polly Samson’s escapist novel "A Theater for Dreamers" is set in 1960 on the quaint Greek island of Hydra—a haven detached from the rest of Europe, where artists roam free and unencumbered. After eighteen-year-old Erica loses her... Read More