The intimate short stories of Rilla Askew’s "The Hungry and the Haunted" illuminate lives touched by grief, guilt, and social change. Set in Oklahoma and the American Southwest during the 1970s and told across multiple perspectives,... Read More
A trans woman guards her secrets and fights dark powers in Margaret Killjoy’s novel "The Sapling Cage". Lorel wants to become a witch, learn to use magic, and travel the world. But she was assigned male at birth, and witches are always... Read More
In Marielle Thompson’s intimate and enlightened historical novel "The Last Witch in Edinburgh", a women’s community entrenched in subtle spell-work and relationships faces misogyny and witch-hunting. In the early 1800s, Nellie, the... Read More
A brother and sister let their imaginations run wild as they embrace the first snowfall in this cozy picture book. The magic touch of the first snow transforms a greenhouse into an ice castle and a snow sculpture into a friendly polar... Read More
Impressionistic and enthusiastic, "Adventures on Land and Sea" is an exuberant travelogue set in Southern France. The fourth volume of the Savoring the Olde Ways series, Carole Bumpus’s travelogue "Adventures on Land and Sea"... Read More
Written in her middle age, the essays in Jennifer Brice’s memoir "Another North" cover her perspectives on place, selfhood, and life in general. Alaska, with its massive scale and minus-fifty-degree winter temperatures, molded and... Read More
In Eugene Lim’s novel Fog & Car, a divorced couple learns to live without one another. After their seven-year marriage ends, Fog and Car retreat to different parts of the country to lick their wounds. Adrift and unsure of what to... Read More
Lynne Spriggs O’Connor’s memoir "Elk Love" pays homage to the challenging, beautiful land that brought her deep, enduring love. A scholar and museum curator fascinated by Native American art, city-bred O’Connor had visions of... Read More