Catharina Coenen’s memoir-in-essays "Unexploded Ordnance" draws on history, biology, philosophy, and linguistics to explore social trauma and unspoken, inherited memories. A German immigrant, Coenen moved to the United States for... Read More

Hanna Park’s haunting fantasy novel "Resurrection" is about sacrifice, legacy, and the perilous seduction of power. Expanding the Beyond the Faerie Rath series into deeper realms of myth and human consequence, the narrative moves... Read More

A Canadian man is trapped in a government camp in the historical graphic novel "Separated from Santo". Santo Pasqualini left Italy with his wife, Alice, in 1933, fearing Mussolini’s rise to power. They arrived in British Columbia, had... Read More

Sean Gerrity’s memoir "Wild on Purpose" takes a fascinating insider’s look at an influential nonprofit organization focused on preserving and “rewilding” millions of acres of American prairie. An American Prairie founder, Gerrity... Read More

Detailed pencil and watercolor illustrations make effective use of white space in this charming picture book about caring for the natural world and all its creatures. When Efrat finds a sparrow hatchling who lost his nest to a storm, she... Read More

Small-town mysteries, generational trauma, and the supernatural collide in L. L. Madrid’s haunting novel "My Lips, Her Voice". Copper City is one of the most haunted cities in the US. Still, when Audrey’s cousin Mara is found dead in... Read More

In Luigi Pirandello’s philosophical novel "One, None, and a Hundred Grand", a personal identity crisis leads to profound explorations of the self and ego. After Vitangelo’s wife, Dida, reveals to him that his nose tilts to the right,... Read More

Worlds are constructed from tender possibilities in Theodora Goss’s alluring, unforgettable short story collection "Letters from an Imaginary Country". “You’re going to be dead in twenty-four hours. Would you like to save the... Read More