Artist, mystic, and teacher Eliza Swann’s "The Alchemical Imagination" is about the history, processes, and magic of ancient and modern alchemy, affirming the value of its esoteric spirituality for creatives. The result of years of... Read More

Sheila Moeschen’s celebratory travel guide "Book Lovers’ New England" tours through the homes, museums, and sites that inspired local poets and writers. New England has fostered numerous talents, including Emily Dickinson, Robert... Read More

In the late 1960s, a grieving twelve-year-old navigates the limitations of her group home in "Doubles", Nora Gold’s poignant novella about a derailed girlhood. Before her mother died, the narrator’s life on her family farm was... Read More

This electric, jazzy biographical picture book of drag icon José Sarra begins with his childhood dreams of becoming royalty in glittering San Francisco. Though these yearnings were supported by his family, he found others more... Read More

Annie Leonard and André Carothers’s insightful political science book "Protest" details the effects of protests throughout human history, into the present. Through compelling photographs and descriptive historical accounts, a wide... Read More

G. G. Silverman’s dark, inventive story collection adapts horror and fairy-tale tropes to explore motherhood and the repercussions of misogynistic violence. Women’s bodies herein are imperiled by sadistic men and acts of... Read More

"La Copine" is an enticing cookbook that captures the innovative menu and desert setting of Claire Wadsworth and Nikki Hill’s California restaurant. While running a catering business in Los Angeles, partners Wadsworth and Hill attended... Read More

Renée-Pélagie de Montreuil, the wife of the infamous French writer Marquis de Sade, is the subject of Margaret Crosland’s illuminating biography Sade’s Wife. De Montreuil’s 1763 betrothal to the marquis was orchestrated by her... Read More