"Skull and Pestle", edited by Kate Wolford, gathers seven short stories that revive Baba Yaga’s legend, alternately retelling her original tale or transporting her through time and space to unexpected places. Women find Baba Yaga in... Read More

The first step of deprogramming is education, informing the person you are trying to free just how indoctrination works to hamstring a mind. But information alone will not free a believer from her beliefs, no matter how destructive,... Read More

Yewande Omotoso’s novel "Bom Boy" is a multigenerational tale set in Cape Town that explores how social and familial pressures shape an individual’s life. It beautifully captures struggles with loneliness, loss, poverty, and... Read More

"Saint Unshamed" is a triumphant memoir about how one man managed to find a way out of a culture that would silence him. In his memoir, "Saint Unshamed", actor and writer Kerry Ashton likens shame to an insidious disease that threads... Read More

Jim Halverson’s "Trials and Trails" is a panorama of the Old West overlaid by psychological theory. In Jim Halverson’s "Trials and Trails", two disaffected cowboys search for new lives in the post–Civil War West. LeRoy is an... Read More

Manly’s book will teach children of all ages to address their anxiety with meditation. In Jill Apperson Manly’s beautiful picture book, "Ahmed’s Journey", a nervous child uses anxiety-reducing techniques in preparation for the... Read More

In this story inspired by the many African American pioneers who forged new communities in the Midwest following the Civil War, young Dede’s hardworking family leaves behind a life of indentured servitude for the promise of free... Read More

Novuyo Rosa Tshuma shapes the history of a family into a riveting, detailed novel. Following in the footsteps of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun, Tshuma crafts a political, historical tale of both a country at war and... Read More