Respect, trust, and, ultimately, love between two men of different species is rendered compelling and utterly believable in J. A. Rock’s "The Silvers". B., captain of a small mission to investigate intelligent life on a far-flung... Read More

This bite-sized taste of microhistory relives the invention of the doughnut. "Cinnamon Diamonds" is Mark Piper’s brief retelling of the origin story of the doughnut. The book lends dramatic flair to the history, with moments of rich... Read More

This compelling historical novella examines Australia’s development through the story of one young man. "Nothing Lasts Forever" is an engaging historical novella by Althea Foster that imagines the life of a young Samoan warrior taken... Read More

In 1947, naturalist Edwin Way Teale and his wife traveled the East Coast from Florida to the Canadian border. Their journey, the subject of North with the Spring, had a dual purpose: scientific—to track the coming of spring and assess... Read More

To be whole, human beings need to both “wake up” and “grow up.” But while spiritual practices leading to waking up have been around for thousands of years, the stages of growing up have only been discovered by Western schools of... Read More

Perhaps the first serious collector to recognize photography as a worthy art form, Samuel J. Wagstaff acquired more than 26,000 photographs between 1973 and 1984, often with the assistance of his one-time lover Robert Mapplethorpe. His... Read More

More than a few motion pictures have captivated audiences with the image of a villainous, all-powerful prison warden and, in many cases in our nation’s history of incarceration, the caricature was accurate. But beginning around 1970,... Read More

From the founder of CavanKerry Press, this delightful memoir in verse bears witness to a complicated family history of Ireland’s Troubles, devout Catholicism, fierce maternal strength, aging, death, bitterness, and love. That Joan... Read More