A kingdom’s fate rests on the shoulders of a princess who deals with dragons in Ellen McGinty’s novel "Saints and Monsters". Meera’s back brace and blue hair draw the unjust denigration of others who consider her cursed. She is... Read More
Edited by Nicole C. Dittmer, "Penny Bloods" collects sensational tales of “monstrous women” from the penny newspapers of the nineteenth century. The stories are arranged in chronological order and are complemented with historical... Read More
A thorough biography-cum-true-crime book, "Black Postmaster in a White Town" reports on an overlooked nineteenth-century atrocity that affects the victims’ descendants to this day. Fostenia W. Baker’s biography of Frazier Baker,... Read More
"Emotion Catchers" is a quaint modern fairy tale that’s most focused on the happenings of daily life. In Beatrice Descamps’s charming coming-of-age novel "Emotion Catchers", girls harness their empathic powers to fight off evil... Read More
A girl befriends an orphaned monster in the graphic novel "In Utero". Despite her protests, Hailey is dropped off at a holiday camp in an old, near-abandoned shopping mall. As other children discover strange jelly objects, Hailey wanders... Read More
Bittersweet and troubling, "Visions of Destiny" is a fantasy novel in which a gifted boy cannot escape what the future has in store for him. In Edward R. Lipinski’s fantasy novel "Visions of Destiny", a reluctant clairvoyant muddles... Read More
"Digital Money Demystified" is a field-leveling, enjoyable introduction into a forbidding but ever more relevant financial topic. Pennsylvania State University professor, digital asset consultant, and CEO Tonya M. Evans’s myth-busting... Read More
Robert Jay Lifton’s thought-provoking book "Surviving Our Catastrophes" says that survivors can teach the world much about resilience. Two assumptions function as the starting point in the study represented by this book: one, that a... Read More