A writer we’ve long adored is back with an enchanting history of apples—and while Priyanka Kumar doesn’t quite cover all 16,000 known apple varieties in The Light Between Apple Trees, you will be hard pressed to keep from rewilding... Read More
Other People’s Mothers / Julie Marie Wade /
University Press of Florida /
Softcover $28.00 (182pp) /
978-0-8130-8114-4 /
Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Julie Marie Wade’s shrewd and winsome memoir Other People’s Mothers is... Read More
A plucky trio pursues a treasure in the convivial thriller Fraud, Murder & Mayhem. In Ed Shiffman’s slow-burn thriller Fraud, Murder & Mayhem, a trio of adventure seekers follows a treasure map. At a California impound auction,... Read More
Reviewer Jennifer Maveety Interviews Patty Krawec, Author of Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds / Bad Indians don’t play along when you expect them to think and act in a certain way. Bad Indians refuse to... Read More
In the uplifting throwback novel "Charity Trickett Is Not So Glamorous", a refreshing heroine forges her own path in Hollywood. In Christine Stringer’s humorous novel "Charity Trickett Is Not So Glamorous", a director’s assistant... Read More
Eva is nervous about Hanukkah this year, in a new town with her friends so far away. But when the neighbor, Charlie, sees the light from the hanukkiah in her window, it prompts him to reach out. Eva is overjoyed to share holiday treats... Read More
In David Ewald’s riveting science fiction caper "The Thief of That", an anxiety-ridden aspiring novelist is given the chance to travel backward in time. At thirty, underemployed Ravel worries that the opportunities he deserved all... Read More
The notion that all creatures have the capacity to do either harm or good is exemplified in the ecoconscious novel "Uplift". In Jessica Mann’s delicate allegorical novel "Uplift", a bird living in the Anthropocene comes of age and... Read More