The Winter Charlatan / Victoria McCombs / IngramSpark / Softcover $13.99 (350pp) / 978-1-73651-640-9 / In Victoria McCombs’s The Winter Charlatan, a desperate but determined princess works to save her kingdom and break her curse.... Read More

This Way Back / Joanna Eleftheriou / West Virginia University Press / Softcover $23.99 (264pp) / 978-1-949199-66-6 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Joanna Eleftheriou’s nuanced essays ask if one can ever truly go home again.... Read More

A Series of Fortunate Events / Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You / Sean B. Carroll / Princeton University Press / Hardcover $22.95 (200pp) / 978-0-691-20175-7 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / A Series of... Read More

We’re Still Here / Pain and Politics in the Heart of America / Jennifer M. Silva / Oxford University Press / Hardcover $24.95 (224pp) / 978-0-19-088804-6 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Jennifer M. Silva’s We’re Still Here... Read More

Foreword Reviews has had a twenty year love affair with university presses. We admire the sheer oddness and chutzpah of institutions of higher learning throwing it down with the big five capitalist publishers and their gazillions of... Read More

Castle of Concrete / Katia Raina / Young Europe Books / Softcover $15.95 (304pp) / 978-0-9995416-3-0 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Imagine becoming an adult under the imposing shadow of the Soviet Union. That’s what Sonya... Read More

Reviewer Mya Alexice Talks Racism with Margaret Hagerman, Author of White Kids / One of the flimsiest of racial stereotypes is the idea that poor, uneducated folks harbor the most intense racist sentiments, and that the higher up the... Read More

Every Body Has a Story / Beverly Gologorsky / Haymarket Books / Softcover $15.95 (320pp) / 978-1-60846-907-9 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Set against the backdrop of the economic crash, Every Body Has a Story is an... Read More