Jen Gunter’s "The Menopause Manifesto" is a self-help guide through menopause for all women of a certain age. Menopause is commonplace and complicated at the same time. Shrouded in myth and peppered with prejudice, it is not often... Read More
In Jenny Bitner’s Here Is A Game We Could Play, twenty-four-year-old Claudia is trapped on the banks of the Susquehanna River, in a town too full of people to be a ghost town, yet too stripped of opportunity to be truly alive. Here,... Read More
When it comes to raising queer kids, families need true acceptance to thrive, but getting there can be a challenge. "Raising LGBTQ Allies" helps schools, mental health professionals, religious leaders, and families understand and create... Read More
Filled with adventure, discovery, and a splash of sibling rivalry, Maureen Buchanan Jones’s historical novel Maud and Addie includes sweet messages about the importance of family. Though they are less than a year apart in age, Maud and... Read More
Alicia J. Novo’s fantasy novel "Unwritten" stars a fiery heroine. Beatrix has a problem. Not only do books whisper to her, branding her a freak in her father’s eyes, but her grandfather—the one person who made Beatrix feel... Read More
In William Schlichter’s hilarious detective novel "Sirgrus Blackmane Demihuman Gumshoe and The Dark-Elf", a dwarf solves a murder in a city that’s rotting from within. Prohibition has the city of Quarter firm in its grip. Rum flows... Read More
Pandemic parenting. Zoom meetings. Virtual school. If you’ve coped with looking at devices all year, Katy Bowman’s "Grow Wild" will strike you as a gentle, cautionary guide about kids’ “super-sedentary” environments, and how... Read More
“Denying parts of who we are can create acceptance, and it can also tear us apart”: this conundrum is central to J.R. Jamison’s memoir "Hillbilly Queer", about how accompanying his father to his fifty-fifth high school reunion... Read More