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A thrilling book about the abounding queerness of the natural world that challenges our expectations of what is normal, beautiful, and possible.

Growing up, Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian felt most at home in the swamps and culverts near her house in the Hudson Valley. A child who frequently felt out of place, too much of one thing or not enough of another, she found acceptance in these settings, among other amphibious beings. In snakes, snails, and, above all, fungi, she saw her own developing identities as a queer, neurodivergent person reflected back at her—and in them, too, she found a personal path to a life of science.

Braiding her personal story with science, Kaishian shows us this making of a scientist and introduces readers to the queerness of all the life around us. Fungal species, we learn, commonly encompass more than two biological sexes—and some as many as twenty-three thousand. Some intersex slugs mutually fire calcium carbonate “love darts” at each other during courtship. Glass eels are sexually undetermined until their last year of life, a mystery that scientists once dubbed “the eel question.” Nature, Kaishian shows us, is filled with the unusual, the overlooked, and the marginalized—and they have lessons for us all.

Wide-ranging, richly observant, and full of surprises, Forest Euphoria will open your eyes and change how you look at the world.

Eternal Armenia: Khatchkars – The CrossStones of Noratus is a breathtaking bilingual English-Armenian coffee table book that pays tribute to the ancient cemetery of Noratus, home to the world's largest surviving collection of Armenian khatchkars (cross-stones). Spanning 266 large-format pages and featuring nearly 200 stunning photographs, this volume seamlessly blends sweeping panoramic landscapes with intimate close-up studies of individual khatchkars, unveiling the extraordinary artistry, rich symbolism, and profound spiritual depth of these timeless monuments. Far more than a photography book, it delves into the history of Christianity in Armenia, the evolution of the Armenian cross and khatchkar tradition, and the master artisans who carved these remarkable stones. Themes of faith, memory, resilience, and cultural preservation are woven throughout, making this an essential volume for history enthusiasts, art lovers, and anyone with a connection to Armenian heritage. One featured khatchkar was even exhibited at the Louvre Museum as a masterwork of Armenian sacred art.

By Dana Mashoian Walrath.

Ten genocides. Five centuries. An award-winning writer, artist, and descendant of genocide survivors captures humanity’s darkest horrors in an immersive, fully illustrated graphic history; the first of its kind.

The Book of Genocides is a haunting graphic narrative that compels readers to confront the most harrowing chapters of human history not as distant events but as visceral experiences. Dana Mashoian Walrath covers ten major atrocities across five centuries: the mass slaughter of the First Peoples of the Americas, the brutalization of Black Americans, the devastation of Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders, the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, the Cambodian killing fields, the Rwandan genocide, the Bosnian genocide, the deadly persecution of the Rohingya in Myanmar, and the genocide in Gaza.

Walrath makes plain that the purpose of genocide is always a land grab, and its central apparatus is dehumanization: each chapter delves into how dehumanization operates, not just through violence but through the political and intellectual systems that enable it. The book’s unique interactive design allows readers to reshape images of victims into grotesque forms mirroring the mental mechanisms of dehumanization. With each page turn, the victims’ humanity is restored, making their suffering undeniable.

The Book of Genocides is an unsettling experience, shot through with the emotional gravity of horrific events―not just historical memories but ongoing realities, painful truths that shape our world and demand our action.