"Woman, Watching" is Merilyn Simonds’s account of the remarkable life and legacy of Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, the amateur ornithologist and author who has been called “the Canadian Rachel Carson.” Born into Sweden’s landed... Read More

Historian of Native America Gregory D. Smithers’s "Reclaiming Two-Spirits" tackles the colonization of sexuality and gender in Indigenous American communities. “‘Two-Spirit,’” Smithers explains, “is derived from the Northern... Read More

"The Boy Who Took Marilyn to the Prom" is a novel about the strength of nostalgia, and the problems that sustained reminiscence can lead to. In Henry Massie’s nostalgic novel "The Boy Who Took Marilyn to the Prom", two men reflect on... Read More

Covering the natural world in the eastern Atlantic archipelago that includes Britain, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and their outlying islands, Katharine Norbury’s extensive anthology, "Women on Nature", brings a feminine perspective to... Read More

The third edition of Angela Y. Davis’s seminal autobiography reintroduces the activist and scholar to audiences old and new. Written during her late twenties, soon after she was acquitted of charges related to a courtroom shootout,... Read More

"A Thousand Trails Home" mixes lush nature writing, evocations of a lifetime of hunting and living off of the land, and a portrait of Alaska’s unique culture and history. At the center of it all are caribou, the life-sustaining herds... Read More

In the spiritual novel "Becoming Soul", a woman’s experiences with family and motherhood foster her connection to the divine. In El Alma’s spiritual novel "Becoming Soul", a parable is used to suggest means of personal development. A... Read More

Courttia Newland’s "A River Called Time" is an expansive speculative novel in which the British did not colonize Africa, but instead sought to learn from its cultures. In an alternate reality London, Markriss has been selected to live... Read More