Art is a tool of the oppressor in Rachel Tremblay’s postapocalyptic novel Lavender Spike. After the revolution, Skylah, the nation’s leader, abolished religion. Seeing the need for connection, she turned sanctuaries into art... Read More

Eight people are trapped on an ancient space voyaging ship in A.D. Sui’s locked room novel, The Iron Garden Sutra. Vessel Iris, a monk of the Starlit Order, and his embedded AI companion, VIFAI, board the generation ship Counsel of... Read More

A determined Ethiopian woman enters the fight for Eritrean independence in Donica Merhazion’s riveting historical novel "Born at the End of the World". To escape an arranged marriage, Elen leaves Ethiopia for Eritrea. There, her aunt... Read More

Online Teaching in K–12 is an encouraging educators’ guide to making the most of online learning. An authoritative and comprehensive educators’ resource, Sarah Bryans-Bongey and Kevin J. Graziano’s Online Teaching in K–12... Read More

Giles Tremlett’s biography of Francisco Franco traces his fast rise through Spain’s military to take lasting totalitarian control of the nation. Focusing on a span from the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939 until Franco’s death... Read More

An intrepid magician works to save a fellow student and the fate of magic itself in Molly O’Sullivan’s stunning fantasy novel "The Book of Autumn". Cella fled her alma mater in New Mexico, where students are taught to cast magic... Read More

Donna Freitas’s psychological thriller "Her One Regret" is about a missing mother and regretting motherhood. Lucy disappears from a parking lot, leaving her baby behind. Her best friend, Michelle, thinks she was kidnapped. But then... Read More

Comedy is derived from badly dealt hands in the dramatic short story collection People Making Danger. An assisted suicide and other realistic magic tricks fill Adam Fike’s farcical short story collection People Making Danger. In “The... Read More