Cicero, Chic, and Sandra Tabatha Cicero. Golden Dawn Ritual Tarot: Keys to the Rituals, Symbolism, Magic and Divination. 2nd ed. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2019.
I recently read Rachel Pollack’s book Tarot Wisdom, which included reproductions of the Golden Dawn deck that comes with Cicero and Cicero’s book. I loved the deck’s imagery and wanted a copy for myself.
Clark, Marcia Kauffman. The Carol of Christmas: Life Story of Christmas Carol Kauffman. Honeoye Falls, NY: Digital Legend Press, 2008.
Christmas Carol Kauffman was a prolific Mennonite writer in the mid-twentieth century. I’ve heard my mother and her siblings talk about reading her work when they were growing up in the 1950s and 1960s. Kauffman is an underexplored figure in the field of Mennonite literature, presumably because her work is didactic, so I don’t know much about her. I’m excited to read this biography by her daughter to learn more.
Rivera, Gabby. Juliet Takes a Breath. New York: Dial Books, 2019.
I love this novel. It’s about a queer Puerto Rican from the Bronx like me, but it’s also a wonderful story about the power of books to change people’s lives. It was first published in 2016 in paperback by Riverdale Avenue Books and then went out of print, and I am glad that a large publisher has given it a home in hardcover. The original publication is not mentioned anywhere in this volume’s paratext, so I do not know if it is a revised version or if it is simply reprinted. The book itself is beautiful, with endpapers dedicated to the Bronx and to Portland, Oregon, the book’s two locales, so kudos to Dial’s designers.
Daniel Shank Cruz 