At a time when the West was still wild, an aspiring businessman opened a daring new travelling attraction, with gas balloons capable of carrying humans into the sky. He broke records across the West and, eventually, the world. His feats... Read More

In her memoir "Afterlight", Isa Milman recounts her struggles as the child of Holocaust survivors. Fraught with memories of the Holocaust, modern politics, and long family histories featuring better times, the book articulates a painful... Read More

In western Kentucky, towns along the Cumberland River were replaced by Lake Barkley during a dam project. Residents were told “their sacrifice was for the public good.” Jayne Moore Waldrop’s novel "Drowned Town" is about what they... Read More

No aspect of life is left unexamined in the piercing poems of Ana Castillo’s new collection "My Book of the Dead". Embracing her place as “the original Xicanista,” Castillo’s collection straddles the line between personal and... Read More

Kristen Glosserman’s If It’s Not Right, Go Left is an upbeat and approachable lifestyle guide that’s structured around eleven transformative lessons. Covering topics like attitude, mindset, parenting, and self-care, Glosserman... Read More

"In the Name of Emmett Till" shares the inspiring history of Mississippi’s early civil rights activists. The book opens with a timeline of early civil rights events before it tells the stories of people who were spurred to action by... Read More

Adam Roberts’s entertaining cultural survey "It’s the End of the World" takes an omnivorous approach to the apocalypse, devoting space to possible mass extinctions wrought by deities, zombies, viruses, and climate change. The book... Read More

Edited by Alex Hernandez, Sarah Rafael García, and Matthew David Goodwin, the anthology "Speculative Fiction for Dreamers" is an exciting and mind-expanding collection of short stories by contemporary Latinx authors. "Speculative... Read More