Maria Rodale’s "Love, Nature, Magic" is an intriguing essay collection about shamanic communication with animals and plants in a garden. An avid gardener, Rodale found herself wondering what some of the unwanted species found in her... Read More

A young couple inherits a house on a romantic Southern island in Mary Glickman’s stunning literary Southern Gothic novel turned murder mystery "By the Rivers of Babylon". Given its “mist over the marsh, trees that look to harbor... Read More

A girl born with an uncommon gift faces ostracization and exploitation in the thrilling historical novel The Midwife’s Touch. For women in China’s family, pale hair is a foreboding sign. It hints to a magical inheritance stretching... Read More

In Trang Thanh Tran’s horror novel "She Is a Haunting", a woman discovers that the house her father is restoring is haunted. Jade and her sister Lily travel to Vietnam to spend the summer with their estranged father. Jade has ulterior... Read More

In the daring, imaginative short stories of Asja Bakić’s "Sweetlust", strong-minded women fight for survival and search for meaning in disturbing dystopian worlds. Set in the Balkans and mostly in the near future, these stories... Read More

First published in 1922, Cicely Hamilton’s science fiction novel "Theodore Savage" follows English society’s descent into savagery after a war wipes out its civilization. Theodore Savage is a model of a modern middle-class... Read More

A budding ecologist finds her voice in Kimberly Behre Kenna’s delightful novel "Artemis Sparke and the Sound Seekers Brigade". When twelve-year-old nature-loving Artemis finds BB pellets in her beloved salt marsh, she is determined to... Read More

Oren Kessler’s brave new history book "Palestine 1936" reveals the deep roots of today’s Israel-Palestine conflict. A tragic history shared with the hindsight knowledge of the decades of violence and bloodshed in the region that... Read More