On August 26, 1919, Fannie Sellins was shot dead in Natrona, Pennsylvania, while trying to defuse a fight between striking coal miners and police deputies. In "Fannie Never Flinched", Mary Cronk Farrell charts her heroine’s... Read More

“High in the sky, green, white, red, and purple ribbons of light flicker and wave, as if dancing to the sounds of a celestial choir.” That lyrical description of the aurora opens Joan Marie Galat’s Stories of the Aurora, the sixth... Read More

These stories are peopled with unconventional women navigating between freedom and family ties. The thirteen stories in Leesa Dean’s vibrant "Waiting for the Cyclone" range across the Americas, depicting characters who long for... Read More

This atmospheric novel is all about valuing women’s ideas, stories, art, and bodies. Pushcart Prize finalist Bev Jafek’s "The Sacred Beasts" is a fiercely feminist novel that makes space for women’s stories and art in the midst of... Read More

A geologist celebrates the beauty of a park and exposes threats it faces. In "Rhythms of Change in Rocky Mountain National Park", Colorado State University geology professor Ellen Wohl characterizes the park as “a protected island of... Read More

"The Courageous" is an unusual morality tale about overcoming hard odds. Chris DeeRoy’s The Courageous: Overcoming from Within is a sometimes inspiring memoir that elaborates a spiritual lesson about maintaining fortitude through... Read More

With its rare dual focus on the throes of romance and the acrimony of a breakup, this collection is a reminder that all relationships have a shadow side. In his poetry collection Love’s Reflections, Ian Harding contrasts the emotional... Read More

There is much compassion and food for thought in this readable work of philosophy. In The Essence of Ethical Pragmatism: The Common Sense Philosophy, E. Dennis Brod explains a straightforward, everyday thought system based on objective... Read More