A compelling family drama resonant with feminist and queer issues, Martha K. Davis’s "Scissors, Paper, Stone" neatly captures the grit of intimacy as relationships expand and contract. “We had been walking for over an hour before I... Read More

"How to Set Yourself on Fire" is a brooding tale of memory, emotional malaise, grief, and voyeurism. Languorous, thirty-five-year old Sheila steals her dead grandmother’s shoe box, filled with 382 letters, and discovers a secret past.... Read More

Jan Yoors achieved international fame as a tapestry artist in the bohemian New York scene of the 1960s, but that barely qualifies among the most interesting parts of his life. In "Hidden Tapestry", Debra Dean dives into the artist’s... Read More

"The Shadow Walker" successfully shows that evil is as present in the modern world as ever. A modern-day yeshiva rabbi takes on society’s seedy underbelly and a deranged killer in Rabbi Yehuda Fine’s "The Shadow Walker". Eitan has... Read More

As climate change gains ground in the consciousness of the public, the audience for books like *Just Cool It! *grows. The public is increasingly aware of climate change, but not necessarily clear about it, and lacking context, can’t... Read More

The story is full of the warmth and humor that Landvik is known for. The ladies of Lorna Landvik’s Patty Jane’s House of Curl are back and just as eccentric as ever. In "Once in a Blue Moon Lodge", the focus shifts to Patty Jane’s... Read More

Violence in relationships can affect anyone, as "A Careful Heart" compellingly proves. "A Careful Heart" is a romance novel by way of domestic abuse. Sound improbable? Perhaps, but Ralph Josiah Bardsley takes on that often-neglected... Read More

With its thoughtful and complex examinations of design and overconsumption, this book offers potential solutions to looming global problems. How can we simultaneously boost the world’s wealth and reduce consumption? The short answer is... Read More