A spunky girl saves her town’s night sky in Katherine Child’s wonder-filled fantasy novel "The Notted Island". The rest of the world has been visited by long-awaited Colour, but Last Island remains in black and white. To complicate... Read More

Framed through the metaphor of broken glass, Sara Ella’s lush fantasy novel "Glass Across the Sea" is a breathtaking story of love and redemption. Long ago in Allumeria, the benevolent Lamplighter gave humanity a miraculous lantern.... Read More

In Katie Moore’s moving historical novel "Under the Pink Triangle", gay men navigate Dachau in 1942. Manny and Rudi are imprisoned in Dachau, forced to wear pink triangles, because they are gay. They form a deep connection with one... Read More

Featuring long horizons, unearthly colors, scrubby vegetation, and striking geology, Chris Carlson’s stunning photography collection honors the spectacular, otherworldly beauty of Great Salt Lake, showing the impact of human water... Read More

Intricate illustrations reminiscent of the I Spy book series open up the world of Emmie the mouse, an avid inventor who lives in a dollhouse-cum-Rube Goldberg machine in a cluttered attic. Everything is just the way she likes it—until... Read More

Michael W. Twitty’s masterful cookbook "Recipes from the American South" includes thoughtful historical considerations on the “collision of cultures” that inform its recipes from a vibrant, distinctive culinary region. Breads,... Read More

In Gary Jackson’s stories-in-poems, superhumans of color navigate violence, visibility, and legacies in the fractured US. Rather than battling traditional villains, Jackson’s superheroes—the Invincible Woman, the Telepath, and the... Read More

Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean, Dagomar Degroot’s sweeping history of human encounters with the solar system, is an unconventional, moving account of how Earth’s cosmic neighborhood shaped human existence. A mixture of intertwined... Read More