Laura Pritchett’s "Playing with Wildfire" is a rare climate novel of now. It begins in late August, as a megafire started by a visiting hiker sweeps through Colorado along with COVID-19. Prose, poetry, plays, government grant... Read More

Rabbi Ellen Bernstein’s "Toward a Holy Ecology" is a meditative, captivating interpretation of Song of Songs that emphasizes the natural world, women’s strength, and wholeness. The Song of Songs, an enigmatic poem that celebrates a... Read More

Rebecca Roque’s "Till Human Voices Wake Us" is an engrossing thriller about a girl looking for her friend’s murderer. When Silencia’s friend Alice drowned, everyone believed it was suicide. There was a note, and Alice was reeling... Read More

In Bob Katz’s novel Waiting For Al Gore, a journalist and an environmentalist working in Vermont use one another’s skills and contacts to achieve their own goals. Lenny is a journalist searching for the story that will earn him a... Read More

In her beautiful, mesmerizing memoir "Otter Country", Miriam Darlington traces her year-long exploration of rivers, estuaries, and marshlands in Great Britain in search of the provocative, secretive otter. An entrancing storyteller,... Read More

Faith coach Angela J. Herrington delivers a reassuring, practical guide for people who are questioning their commitments to Christianity or who are looking to trade “toxic, man-made religion” for something healthier. Here,... Read More

In "The Thefts of the Mona Lisa", Noah Charney reveals fascinating details about the beguiling masterpiece’s artistic and social history, including its infamous 1911 theft and two years’ absence from the Louvre. The book includes... Read More

Yearning spans centuries in Anna Canić’s bold feminist novel "Sophia and Cassius", about a Lilith-inspired woman who is reborn to love a warrior. Sophia was created together with the first man and later hated by Eve. In this... Read More