"Vow of Celibacy" is a funny and smart exploration of sex, love, and every woman’s road to body-positivity. In Erin Judge’s "Vow of Celibacy", heroine Natalie is a woman on a mission: she is abstaining from sex until she can figure... Read More

Stephanie Knipper’s novel treats autism spectrum disorders with dignity and compassion. The little girl at the center of Stephanie Knipper’s magical new novel, "The Peculiar Miracles of Antoinette Martin", is afflicted with the gift... Read More

The undertone of a wordless answer to loneliness and doubt runs beneath its lines of elegantly crafted prose. "The Universe Playing Strings", by R. M. Kinder, is a tapestry of middle America threaded with music, as souls drift into each... Read More

This resonant novel explores the intersections of truth and fiction. "Fever Tree", by Tim Applegate, takes its name from a band that, to people of a certain age, evoked the promises and disappointments of the late ’60s and early... Read More

Froelich’s Ladder delights with its wit and imagination. Bristling with the bizarre, Jamie Duclos-Yourdon’s Froelich’s Ladder is a fantastical commentary on humanity’s interconnectedness. Wrapped in the trappings of American tall... Read More

It’s Not Like I Knew Her shares the important and oft-neglected history of lesbian bars in twentieth-century America. Pat Spears’s It’s Not Like I Knew Her is a vivid account of a young lesbian living in the deep South from the... Read More

Kim Ekemar creates an intriguing, complex mystery with brisk pacing and a skillful unraveling of clues. Kim Ekemar’s engaging murder mystery, "The Patricide", brings a troubled French family together for its patriarch’s seventy-fifth... Read More

This is a living theological text that invites personal experiences into the exploration of divinity. From pioneering feminist theologians Carol Christ and Judith Plaskow comes a vibrant new work of embodied theology, "Goddess and God in... Read More