"Madame Victoria" is an imaginative, haunting, and insightful examination of the lives of women. Shortly after the millennium, a skeleton is discovered on the grounds of Montreal’s Royal Victoria Hospital. It is identified as having... Read More

Lisa Kohn’s memoir of growing up in the 1960s and 1970s under the influence of the Unification Church—the “Moonies” cult—is at once heartrending and mind-blowing. Kohn’s upbringing was turbulent. She lived in two worlds: on... Read More

Stories abound of saints, mystics, and even ordinary people who’ve had sudden, spectacular awakening experiences—the “spiritual lottery winners.” But there is another path to liberation and full awakening that has for centuries... Read More

Nicole Walker’s dilemma is eye-opening: She cares about the environment, but she is hard-pressed to figure out how to reconcile that concern with modern-day living. With a sense of frustration, she writes that “to truly sustain the... Read More

This short book, comprised of a lecture by Robert Bringhurst and an essay by Jan Zwicky, addresses the finite limitations of humanity in a scholarly fashion. Bringhurst begins with an impassioned discussion of the meaning of the wild,... Read More

In "DeadEndia", author and animator Hamish Steele introduces the bizarre, fun, and dangerous world of the PollyWood Theme Park—specifically, the scare ride–slash–supernatural portal called Dead End. Steele has been publishing... Read More

Narrated as a harrowing memory retold to an inquisitive granddaughter, Hanna’s story begins in 1939. Hanna and her family live in a remote village in Soviet-occupied Ukraine. Anti-Semitism is a constant issue, but it does little to... Read More

Is Merilyn Simonds’s "Refuge" a fictional memoir, a historical novel, or an exploration of the causes and results of seeking refuge? It’s all three, as it turns out, and a mystery besides. Questions hover over ninety-six-year-old... Read More