Greed, violence, and true love fuel Bianca M. Schwarz’s lively historical novel "The Missing Baroness". After a decade of hiding in the country from her murderous uncle, orphaned Georgina learns that he plans to have her pronounced... Read More

Irena Smith’s intricate memoir-in-vignettes traces her Soviet Jewish family’s history during a memorable California road trip. During an atypically wet California January, Smith, her seventy-seven-year-old mother, and her young adult... Read More

Artist, mystic, and teacher Eliza Swann’s "The Alchemical Imagination" is about the history, processes, and magic of ancient and modern alchemy, affirming the value of its esoteric spirituality for creatives. The result of years of... Read More

A harrowing memoir about artistic integrity under state repression, "The Village on the Edge of the World" collects Nobel Prize-winning novelist Herta Müller’s reflections on growing into her vocation during the socialist dictatorship... Read More

An isolated feminist community falls short of its utopian ideals in Keely Jobe’s intoxicating surrealistic novel "The Endling". A few springs into Frank and her niece Mila’s tenure in a women’s commune on a Tasmanian mountain, the... Read More

Sheila Moeschen’s celebratory travel guide "Book Lovers’ New England" tours through the homes, museums, and sites that inspired local poets and writers. New England has fostered numerous talents, including Emily Dickinson, Robert... Read More

Part epistolary memoir, part self-help guide, "A Life in Letters" models nurturing relationships and one’s sense of self through the neglected art of correspondence. Ronda Beaman’s inspiring self-help book "A Life in Letters" is... Read More