Impossible Belonging, Maya Pindyck’s third collection after Emoticoncert and Friend Among Stones, received the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry on the heels of her fellowships and grants from the National Endowment of the Arts, Poetry... Read More

Pastel backgrounds contrast with the flaming red hair and striped socks of a fairy named Marky in this heartwarming book geared toward helping children better understand and accept people with disabilities. Marky is magnificent in many... Read More

Victoria McCombs’s fantasy novel "Silver Bounty" is a pirating adventure featuring impending doom and the allure of the sea. After losing many of their crew, Emme and Arn hand over the Royal Rose to Arn’s first mate, Ontario—much... Read More

In Emma Batchelor’s semiautobiographical novel "Now That I See You", a thirty-year-old woman processes her reactions after her partner tells her they are transgender. When her partner, Jess, reveals that they are femme, the narrator is... Read More

In Mimi Herman’s lush historical novel "The Kudzu Queen", a clever Southern teenager’s sense of justice inspires her to expose the truth about a magnetic newcomer. Mattie is fifteen and feeling eager for change when she and the rest... Read More

Anastasia C. Curwood’s vibrant biography of Shirley Chisholm reveals a tenacious congresswoman and presidential candidate. Curwood writes that Chisholm, the daughter of Caribbean immigrants and a Democratic party trailblazer, possessed... Read More

Lisa Thompson’s memoir "Finding Elevation" is an exhilarating and harrowing chronicle of mountain climbing. Compelled at first by “blind ambition,” Thompson’s climbs ranged from Seattle’s Mount Rainier to treacherous K2, high... Read More

"The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein" trace the enigmatic genius’s 1925 tour through Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. Einstein agreed to the extended visit for academic and humanitarian reasons; he was also trying to end an affair... Read More