There is no happily-ever-after for this Little Red, but there are plenty of eye-popping, jaw-dropping twists in "Little Dead Riding Hood", part of the Scary Tales Retold series from Wiley Blevins. Channeling its Grimm roots, this and... Read More
Nothing makes love more appealing than a dash of forbidden romance, plus a generations-old rivalry. Add Spanish sunshine and stir gently. Luz de Rueda is a gorgeous young biographer, freshly returned to her aristocratic family’s villa... Read More
Devotedly Euro-American, schooled in language, literature, verse, acting, and the working parts of script, Hélène Cardona first wrote this bilingual collection in English and then delivered the French translation. A citizen of the... Read More
This genre-defying spectacle of color, form, and humor looks like an art book but acts the part of a playful, kid-friendly graphic novel masquerading as a field guide to animals. A conservationist and maestro of modernism and... Read More
From the Portuguese “black earth,” terra preta refers to a rich soil composed of humus (decomposed organic substances) and biochar (carbon derived from charcoal). “Nowadays, fertile soil disappears 10 to 100 times quicker than it... Read More
A deep and abiding connection to the pastures and forests of South Carolina defines J. Drew Lanham’s remarkable, boundary-breaking memoir, "The Home Place". A birder, naturalist, and distinguished professor of wildlife ecology at... Read More
Christine Valters Paintner, Abbess of the “virtual monastery” AbbeyoftheArts.com, and author of eight books, explores the Christian spiritual path through the stories of twelve monks and mystics, ancient and modern. Each story... Read More
It takes a bold free spirit to repurpose the derogatory epithet “whore” in a revolutionary context. That’s what outspoken sex-worker-rights activist Siouxsie Q does in "Truth, Justice, and the American Whore", a powerful personal... Read More