Sun Yung Shin and Mélina Mangal’s innovative dual biography Revolutions Are Made of Love, combines paired poems with beautiful illustrations. Activists James and Grace Lee Boggs built a lasting social justice and civil rights movement... Read More

In Lauren Fischer’s novel "Orphanland", childhood friends work to unravel a mystery surrounding their orphanage, an abandoned school, and the influential family tied to both. Eleven-year-old Willa lives in the Southern Ohio... Read More

Sim Butler’s incisive memoir "And the Dragons Do Come" is about raising a transgender child in the Deep South. Butler assumed that his firstborn child was a boy. But after years of her fervent insistence that she was a girl, coupled... Read More

Women, blue-collar workers, and Indigenous people in Mexico respond in hallucinatory ways to the violence of men and abusive authority figures in Elena Garro’s intricate short story collection "The Week of Colors". Incorporating... Read More

Linda Yael Schiller’s spiritual guide "Ancestral Dreaming" takes a fresh approach to healing inherited wounds and trauma. Drawing on the science of epigenetics to support its thesis, the book asserts that unhealed wounds and unresolved... Read More

Barbara Beery’s cheerful children’s cookbook "Ooh La La!" pairs fresh flavors with classic French recipes to inspire international palates. From ratatouille to quiche Lorraine, gratin to crème brûlée, French comfort foods are... Read More

A woman gathers her courage to invite a bestselling author to visit her struggling town in Jan Stites’s gentle novel "Becoming Felicity". A lifelong resident of Loon, Cass is devastated to learn that its library will close without... Read More

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