Evangelical pastor Caleb E. Campbell’s "Disarming Leviathan" is an earnest text that works to understand the phenomenon of rising Christian nationalism in the United States. Following the upheavals of 2020 and 2021, including the... Read More

"No One Talks About This Stuff" is a ranging anthology of frank, humorous essays about facing infertility, pregnancy loss, and childlessness. The twenty-two contributors felt “disenfranchised grief” over pregnancies that did not lead... Read More

A seventh grader meets monsters while traveling with her family in Lisa Naffziger’s graphic novel "Deja Ross Speaks to Freaks". While on vacation with her family in Texas, Deja is excited to enter the territory of an infamous monster,... Read More

Episcopal priests Elizabeth Felicetti and Samantha Vincent-Alexander’s authentic, atypical devotional "Irreverent Prayers" includes petitions for permission to be “pissed off” and to be rescued from the “platitudes of... Read More

A local healer falls in love with a dashing nobleman in "A Kingdom to Claim", Sian Ann Bessey’s romantic epic set in medieval Wessex. Aisley, who helps out with her sick sister, is upended when she loses her father and finds out that... Read More

Set in 1897, Norman Lock’s riveting historical novel "The Caricaturist" focuses on Oliver, a Philadelphia native and a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Uninspired by the academy’s faculty of “myopic old men,”... Read More

In Nicole M. Wolverton’s hair-raising thriller "A Misfortune of Lake Monsters", a teenager who fakes cryptid sightings confronts a monster from her nightmares. Lemon knows that Old Lucy isn’t real. Her family has been responsible for... Read More

Grief, lies, and death haunt Alice Dailey’s intense, intimate memoir "Mother of Stories". Dailey, a scholar and educator focused on the portrayal of death in historical literature, takes an unusual approach to writing about the effects... Read More