Matthew L. Harris’s exposé of one religion’s role in US race relations, "Second-Class Saints" covers an ill-understood episode in Mormon history. The book charts the history of Mormonism’s infamous “priesthood ban,” a... Read More

Dominic Pettman and Eugene Thacker’s expansive book "Sad Planets" contemplates humanity’s troubled perception of climate change and perhaps diminishing cosmic presence. The book sprawls across a captivating informational universe... Read More

"Between Fortitude and Folly" is an informative, absorbing historical novel in which three adults who meet during wartime are endeared to one another. In K. Partridge’s historical novel "Between Fortitude and Folly", a Navy Reserve... Read More

"This Blood Means Life" is a resplendent and intoxicating fairy tale that mixes pagan magic and the feminine divine into stories we only think we know. Four fairy tales are infused with new life in Mindi Meltz’s sensual, affecting... Read More

Jeff Pearce recounts the life and exploits of versatile English explorer, politician, and diplomat Henry Layard in "Winged Bull". Always restless, Layard set out for Sri Lanka in 1839 at the age of twenty-two. He never arrived.... Read More

In the historical novel "The Chaplain", a man moves from seminary to shepherding his own congregation, always maintaining his sense of faith. In Norbert Huber’s historical novel "The Chaplain", a Civil War minister refuses to choose... Read More

Providing fertile ground for a new series, The Albatross: Contact is an action-packed and contemplative science fiction epic. Connor Mackay’s space epic The Albatross: Contact examines the mental cost of war as humans and aliens unite... Read More

Abigail Tarttelin’s "Dead Girls" is an ultra creepy, occult-tinged horror story. Focused on a missing girl, it shows that the wild places of childhood are not all magical and good. Billie—who likes Slater from Saved by the Bell,... Read More