The historical novel "A Tale of Two Maidens" covers the last days of Joan of Arc’s campaign with spirited flourishes. In Anne Echols’s rousing historical novel "A Tale of Two Maidens", a girl escapes an arranged marriage by joining... Read More

In Donna Barba Higuera’s distinctive novel "Alebrijes", an impoverished boy defies a realm of fantastical totalitarianism. Leandro is a crafty, compassionate thirteen-year-old who lives with his younger sister, Gabi, outside of... Read More

Cigar Box Lithographs: Volume V extols the unique, functional beauty of antique cigar labels and their boxes. Charles J. Humber’s Cigar Box Lithographs: Volume V continues a series featuring the colorful and varied inner labels affixed... Read More

From Sinai to Canaan and Phoenicia, the historical novel "The Pharaoh and the Gods" travels eternal landscapes at a spirited pace. Dennis Wammack’s ambitious historical novel "The Pharaoh and the Gods" reimagines ancient history,... Read More

Set in the early 1960s, Edward Cahill’s intriguing novel "Disorderly Men" concerns the aftermath of a police raid on a Greenwich Village gay bar. Sophisticated and “gray-flanneled” Roger is a World War II veteran, husband, and... Read More

Shilpi Suneja’s novel "House of Caravans" depicts the turbulent end of British-ruled India along with the ensuing violence amid the region’s Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs. Beyond this time of ravaged independence and the 1947... Read More

In Christine Lai’s haunting novel "Landscapes", a wounded woman contends with memories, artifacts, loss, and hope. Penelope is an English country estate’s archivist and librarian; she’s been there for twenty-two years. Her partner,... Read More

Beth Kephart’s memoir-in-essays contemplates paper in its many forms, including its emotional, historical, and tangible impacts. With cohesive eloquence, the book details how paper defines mundane aspects of everyday life: it is there... Read More