Touted as “a loose retelling of Beauty and the Beast,” Neil Cochrane’s "The Story of the Hundred Promises" blends fairy tale magic with unabashed “queer optimism.” After ten years, trans sailor Darragh thought he’d left the... Read More

Heather Camlot’s "The Prisoner and the Writer" tells the story of the Dreyfus Affair for early readers. In 1895, Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason against France. He was sentenced to prison on remote Devil’s Island, where he... Read More

In Kris Waldherr’s "Unnatural Creatures", Victor Frankenstein’s family splinters apart amid war and revolution. In late eighteenth-century Geneva, Caroline, the mother of Victor Frankenstein, adores her family, both biological and... Read More

In "How We Live Is How We Die", Pema Chödrön contemplates the spiritual, psychological, and physical aspects of death from a reasoned, resonant Buddhist perspective. Chödrön is a teacher and a Buddhist nun. Now in her mid-eighties,... Read More

For decades, cultural historian Nancy Marie Brown has been fascinated by Iceland, a nation of natural and supernatural wonders. Her book "Looking for the Hidden Folk" is a mischievous guide to reclaiming sacred connections to places as a... Read More

In Mary Wimmer’s atmospheric novel "The Art of the Break", a woman inherits her father’s cheese-making business. In mid-1970s Milwaukee, Charlie is having increasing marital problems with Rick, her Vietnam veteran husband. An... Read More

Dark and supernatural forces affect many lives in Alla Gorbunova’s novel It’s the End of the World, My Love. Russia is a vast, contradictory place. For all its natural beauty and cultural traditions, its troubled history often causes... Read More

A struggling empath fights her way back to life in Rita Zoey Chen’s illuminating debut novel. When she was tiny, Leah beguiled carnival-goers with animal facts—and with her ability to peek into their futures and reveal tender truths.... Read More