Bonnie Yochelson’s enlightening biography "Too Good to Get Married" captures the life and work of nineteenth-century lesbian photographer Alice Austen. Born in March 1866, Austen, an amateur photographer living among elite Staten... Read More

In Franziska Gänsler’s moving novel "Eternal Summer", a woman in distress and her daughter arrive at a quiet German hotel, finding unexpected companionship with the hotel owner. Horrific wildfires and heatwaves mark the setting... Read More

A family’s fraught road back to each other is the focus of Shirley Russak Wachtel’s bittersweet historical novel "The Baker of Lost Memories". Josef and Anya run a small bakery in Lodz, Poland, with the help of their bubbly young... Read More

Family, loyalty, and forgiveness are at the center of Leslie Gray Streeter’s humorous novel "Family and Other Calamities". Dawn, a self-made Black journalist, is the founder of the online entertainment publication Glitter. Her hard... Read More

A muted palette and visible brushstrokes lend the impression of stepping into a painting in this cosmic picture book that will delight children and feel familiar to their guardians. A playdate on Earth is coming to a close—just as soon... Read More

Samantha Rose Hicks’s spiritual guide "Talking with the Tarot" takes a fresh approach to learning and interpreting the tarot. The book traces the long, conflicted history of the tarot and its early association with marginalized... Read More

Jordan Rosenfeld’s thriller "Fallout" spotlights environmental awareness and personal agency. Project Nemesis, a band of rebels set on environmental protection, sabotage and blackmail shady energy companies. Their methods garner... Read More

Fatma Qandil’s literary novel "Empty Cages" moves with quiet intent, tracing a life through memory’s fragments. Herein, empty cages offer both release and confinement, holding a life that teeters between adventure and the mundane.... Read More