The historical biographies collected in Elizabeth Cobbs’s "Fearless Women" cover those who advanced women’s rights at each stage in American history. Arguing for broader definitions of feminism and patriotism that encompass their... Read More

Filled with dramatic, often violent, seventeenth-century court and clergy intrigues, Bronwen McShea’s "La Duchesse" is meticulous—the “first fully researched modern biography of Vignerot.” Vignerot would have been a minor rural... Read More

Both luscious and melancholy, Madelaine Lucas’s novel sifts through the ashes of a woman’s formative romantic relationship, unearthing the truths that she once evaded. Though her childhood circumstances were somewhat circumscribed,... Read More

Vasily Eroshenko uses simple tales to explore powerful, complex morals in "The Narrow Cage and Other Modern Fairy Tales". Storytellers have long used fairy tales and children’s stories as a means of delivering radical, even subversive... Read More

"Quest for the Neptius" is a delightful fantasy novel in which an ordinary girl is awed by her encounters with good, evil, and her personal power to achieve greatness. In A. H. Benjamin’s captivating fantasy novel "Quest for the... Read More

"Embrace the Power of You" is a timely career guide that’s packed with suggestions for creating inclusive workplaces. Drawing on her eye-opening experiences working in corporate America as a Latina, Tricia Montalvo Timm’s career... Read More

People known for their involvement with the occult take up the mantle of defending England during wartime in the entertaining historical novel "The Witches of World War II". Doreen Dominy, a witch who also happens to work at England’s... Read More

An unhappy housewife learns to cope with loss and trauma in Maki Kashimada’s novel "Love at Six Thousand Degrees". One day, for no apparent reason, a woman leaves her child at the neighbor’s and runs away. Her morbid fascination with... Read More