Mirabile is a collection of linked
short stories about a group of humans who have traveled to a distant planet and
established a colony there.
They’ve brought seeds and plants from Earth designed to mutate and adapt to on-the-ground conditions… but some of them
mutate a lot! Annie “Jason” Masmajean is a middle-aged
“Jason,” a scientist who hunts harmful mutations, and her story is beautifully
told.
She’s a terrific, funny protagonist, navigating her world with her
growing chosen family and the communities around them. It’s unique in that it’s
a book about solving problems, not about conquering a new world.
The writing is
terrific, and the characters are very memorable. It is highly recommended!
On the distant planet of Mirabile, a settlement of human colonists from Earth is jeopardized by genetic mutants of Earth plants and animals, and it is up to ecological troubleshooter Mama Jason to destroy the menacing mutants. Reprint.
This
is Dr. Pauli Murray’s autobiography, and what a portrait of an amazing life it
is!
Murray was involved in the early years of the Civil Rights Movement in the
U.S., was a founding member of the National Organization for Women, was a
friend of Eleanor Roosevelt as well as being a groundbreaking lawyer, a poet,
and finally, the first Black person to be ordained as an Episcopal priest.
Murray’s work analyzing laws versus customs that enforced Jim Crow in the South
was used to fight segregation as well as subsequent boosts to the rights of
women and LGBTQ people. The book is full of both triumph and suffering,
depicted in brilliant prose, and it makes you want to celebrate and explore
Murray’s legacy.
First published posthumously in 1987, Pauli Murray's Song in a Weary Throat was critically lauded, winning the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and the Lillian Smith Book Award among other distinctions. Yet Murray's name and extraordinary influence receded from view in the intervening years; now they are once again entering the public discourse. At last, with the republication of this "beautifully crafted" memoir, Song in a Weary Throat takes its rightful place among the great civil rights autobiographies of the twentieth century.
In a voice that is energetic, wry, and direct, Murray tells of a childhood dramatically altered by the…
Little Nothing is a
terrific, atmospheric novella about two young women finding unique ways to
resist and protect their communities.
Set in Florida at the start of the Civil
War, Bess and Jonnie are a lesbian couple who use knotwork magic and the power
of the local waterhorses, known as “limerunners,” to push back against a
Confederacy trying to take over their home.
Holloway has a unique voice, and
this is a read you won’t forget in a hurry.
Becca Thornton, divorced, middle-aged, and
trying to embrace a quiet life, discovers that there are still plenty of
surprises to be had when her menopause kicks in with bonus lycanthropy. And
she's not the only one.
The seemingly peaceful and dull town of Wolf's Point
has its own all-female werewolf pack, and Becca has just become its newest
member. But it's not all protecting Wolf's Point, midnight meetings at the
Women's Club, and monthly runs through the woods. There are werewolf hunters in
town, and now they've got Becca and the Wolf's Point Pack in their sights.
