Peter Cavanagh’s "How Birds Fly" is an enlightening examination of the aerodynamics of bird flight. A rare science book that includes dazzling photographs of birds from around the globe, including hummingbirds, songbirds, raptors, and... Read More

A Chinese photographer in colonial Singapore and a museum archivist forge a connection through their yearning, time-crossing correspondence in Elaine Chiew’s mesmerizing speculative novel "The Light Between Us". In 1920, Tian Wei runs... Read More

In the supernatural novel "Spellbound", passionate lovers are tied to each other across time because of happenstance magic. In Ann Charlotte’s romance novel "Spellbound", a widowed photojournalist discovers her connection to a... Read More

Brash and exuberant, "The Punk Rock Queen of the Jews" is a memoir about faith, emergence, and individuality. Rossi’s lively memoir "The Punk Rock Queen of the Jews" recalls her tumultuous adolescence and years of enforced exile among... Read More

Two women are pulled together by their complicated relationships to motherhood in the tense but humane thriller "Not Yours to Keep". Fraught with heartache, Zelly Ruskin’s thriller "Not Yours to Keep" unfolds the pain of infertility.... Read More

An exiled witch contends with murderous forces in Stacie Murphy’s beguiling novel The Witch’s Secret. In the Civil War-era, Joya, having misused her magic against the strict rules of her Boston magisterium, is sent to live with... Read More

In Ella McLeod’s coming-of-age fairy tale Rapunzella, Or, Don’t Touch My Hair, a Black girl is split between adolescent anxieties and a battle against evil in her magical dreams. In Xaymaca, as foretold by prophecy, the Black witches... Read More

A lighthouse and its storied secrets feature in Amanda Cox’s engrossing novel "Between the Sound and Sea", in which a woman helms a restoration project and meets a widower who longs for atonement. Joey was an event planner in Copper... Read More