Ralph Nader’s "The Rebellious CEO" profiles twelve executives for whom the greater good outweighed quick profits. These smart, flexible, independent thinkers instigated positive change and used their successes to leverage money and... Read More

In Tessa Afshar’s captivating Christian romance novel "The Peasant King", an archeress and a renegade prince join forces to help fulfill a prophecy. Jemmah’s Judean mother, Keren, is the Persian king Cyrus’s chief scribe. She’s... Read More

A sobering dispatch from a past marked by familiar prejudices, "The Trials of Madame Restell" is Nicholas L. Syrett’s consequential biography of a woman who defied changing norms to protect women’s health. Ann Trow—later known as... Read More

In Sally Gardner’s fantastical novel "The Weather Woman", gender, societal recognition, and family inheritance lead to precarious circumstances in Victorian London. Neva, whose parents neglect her, can read the weather with perfect... Read More

Melanie Dobson’s multi-timeline novel "The Wings of Poppy Pendleton" is about the boundless beauty of a child’s hope. The night before her fifth birthday, Poppy, the heiress of the Pendleton fortune, vanishes from Koster Isle without... Read More

A princess and a disgraced former knight find love despite dark magic, family secrets, and tragedy in the graphic novel "Darkly She Goes". Islen is a beautiful princess trapped in a foreboding castle full of monsters. When Arzhur is... Read More

Academic, expert, and spiritual, the essays of Llewellyn’s Complete Book of North American Folk Magic take a compelling trek through a variety of magical traditions. The essays are organized geographically, beginning in the northeast... Read More

Knowing the difficulties involved in documenting enslaved people’s lives, Nancy Koester made multiple trips to sites where Sojourner Truth lived and traveled; she also analyzed her dictated letters, speeches, and newspaper accounts in... Read More