In Nisi Shawl’s novel "Speculation", wish-granting spectacles give a girl great power––and an even greater burden. In 1962, Winna’s life is upended when she inherits a pair of spectacles with a magical quirk: they can grant... Read More

Charlotte Maya’s moving memoir "Sushi Tuesdays" covers how she survived the death of a loved one. The book is set during the aftermath of Maya’s husband’s suicide on a “perfectly ordinary Sunday.” He had stayed home to take a... Read More

In her captivating memoir, Suzanne Craig Robertson brings out the nuances of a death row inmate’s story that news reports and court judgments ignored. Robertson’s husband, Alan, was a participant in a church ministry that visited... Read More

Hayley Gold’s beautiful graphic memoir "Nervosa" covers the artist’s life through her eating disorder. When Gold was ten, she went to get ice cream with her father while he ranted about her mother. Her cholesterol was high, some... Read More

Thomas Cirotteau, Jennifer Kerner, and Éric Pincas’s "Lady Sapiens" is a vibrant history book about how ancient women lived and what they contributed to society. Steeped in interdisciplinary scholarship, "Lady Sapiens" synthesizes... Read More