South African scholar Julia Martin’s mesmerizing and evocative memoir covers sponge diving from an anthropological perspective. While on sabbatical, Martin traveled to the Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean Sea to study Porifera, whose... Read More

Alexandra Ammon Parthun’s exciting romance novel "For the Love of the Quest" pays homage to the lore and fables of Camelot. Lady Edith Darling is idealistic, kind, and shy. She embarks on a quest to find Excalibur and the lost... Read More

In Mario Elías’s surreal, unflinching novel "Beloved Disciples", a man grieves the death of his first love. Simón experiences heartbreak after losing Albi, the love of his life. He sees visions in which Albi-clone corpses pile up... Read More

An intimate, human-scaled history of a landmark Canadian labor rights campaign, Joe Barrett’s book "A Fight for Justice" offers a prescient perspective on the turbulent overlap between immigration and labor rights. Barrett, a labor... Read More

In Claire Fuller’s haunting thriller "Hunger and Thirst", a teenager’s isolation in a decrepit, abandoned house coincides with a grisly murder. In the summer of 1987, sixteen-year-old Ursula moves from foster homes and a halfway... Read More