In "Wake Up, This Is Joburg", photographer Mark Lewis and writer Tanya Zack document stories about people getting by on the fringes of Johannesburg. These pieces are sometimes sad, sometimes inspiring, and add up to a complicated picture... Read More
Observing the development of the US as a nation through a single American family, "Legacy" is a personalized, microcosmic history text. "Legacy" is a tale of US history distilled through Scott MacDonald’s family genealogy and the... Read More
In this touching historical novel, a long-distance couple works to keep their family together in the face of adversity. In Gail S. Fraser’s historical novel "Song for the Widowmaker", a Scottish emigrant to the US pursues mining work... Read More
"The Moonday Letters" wraps a lament for Earth’s damaged ecosystems into the story of lovers at an interplanetary crossroads. Lumi grew up in a resource-starved holiday village on Earth. She had few prospects before a healer, Vivian,... Read More
"Ministers of a New Medium" brings fresh insight into Christian evangelism, tracing the lives and work of two pioneering preachers from the early days of radio in the US. Walter Maier, a Lutheran pastor, and Fulton Sheen, a Catholic... Read More
An impulsive decision forces a clandestine order to take protective measures in Paraic O’Donnell’s surreal novel "The Maker of Swans". For as long as she can remember, Clara has lived at the manor house at the edge of the lake.... Read More
Centering military details, the historical novel "The Angel of Lorraine" concerns the fights between the English and the French during Joan of Arc’s time. Peter Tallon’s detailed historical novel "The Angel of Lorraine" follows Joan... Read More
Historian of Native America Gregory D. Smithers’s "Reclaiming Two-Spirits" tackles the colonization of sexuality and gender in Indigenous American communities. “‘Two-Spirit,’” Smithers explains, “is derived from the Northern... Read More