As humans wage war on each other and on nature, a visionary Wisconsin forester discovers a poisoned gift within himself in B. Pladek’s historical novel "Dry Land". Rand trained to be a forester after losing his beloved marshland to... Read More

Carol Mitchell’s novel What Start Bad a Mornin’ moves between the United States and Caribbean islands in search of buried memories. Amaya has vague memories of her life in Jamaica before she moved to Trinidad and met her husband,... Read More

A Russian woman recalls her mother’s final days and her own grieving process in Oksana Vasyakina’s novel "Wound". After her mother’s death, Oksana has an endless list of tasks to complete, the most important of which is to take her... Read More

Who doesn’t like a good secret history? In "Silhouettes and Shadows", Adam Steiner takes a look at a pivotal moment in the musical life of David Bowie, the 1980 album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps). Coming between Bowie’s... Read More

Melanie Dobson’s multi-timeline novel "The Wings of Poppy Pendleton" is about the boundless beauty of a child’s hope. The night before her fifth birthday, Poppy, the heiress of the Pendleton fortune, vanishes from Koster Isle without... Read More

A brave little rabbit applies advice from his grandfather to save the day in this touching tale of family devotion. Davy and his little sister Mia are excited to take their sled the short distance to their grandparents’ house. On their... Read More

42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams collects a lifetime’s worth of the celebrated author’s notes, correspondence, and photographs, along with tributes from famous friends. Beginning with report cards and school pictures,... Read More

The artful stories of Stacie Shannon Denetsosie’s unflinching collection "The Missing Morningstar" are set in the Navajo Nation, where people who struggle to overcome adversity often derive comfort from their community’s traditions.... Read More