In Em Dickson’s stunning biographical collection "Beyond They/Them", nonbinary, gender-diverse, and two-spirit trailblazers are honored for their groundbreaking impacts across various media. This dynamic book highlights twenty... Read More

Jordan Rosenfeld’s thriller "Fallout" spotlights environmental awareness and personal agency. Project Nemesis, a band of rebels set on environmental protection, sabotage and blackmail shady energy companies. Their methods garner... Read More

Soon-to-be mothers struggle with cult brainwashing in Alexandria Faulkenbury’s question-filled novel "Somewhere Past the End". Disowned after her teenage pregnancy, Teresa finds a new family with Richmond and his alternative religious... Read More

A king with everything goes in search of nothing in this picture book with a philosophical twist. The king travels to the not-quite-barren expanse of the desert and gazes into the not-quite-emptiness of the night sky, but still,... Read More

Alex Green’s fascinating book reconstructs the life and legacy of Walter E. Fernald, a polarizing architect in the US’s treatment of the mentally disabled. A physician from Maine who established and influenced institutions across the... Read More

Love is the focus of Martina Devlin’s elegant historical novel "Charlotte", about Charlotte Brontë, her husband Arthur, and Arthur’s cousin Mary, who became Charlotte’s friend and, later, Arthur’s second wife. The story is set... Read More

A beautiful love letter to the power of reading, Katherine Paterson’s biography of Jella Lepman covers how she built a massive literary collection for the children of post–World War II Germany. Lepman endured the death of her World... Read More

Zoë Gadegbeku’s lyrical hybrid novel "Blue Futures, Break Open" draws on colonialism in the Americas and Africa in addition to the history of the African diaspora to create a slant mythological response to some of the greatest... Read More