In Aatif Rashid’s witty and dissolute "Portrait of Sebastian Khan", a Muslim American college student is conflicted by his love for free-spirited pleasure and the more conventional realities of accomplishment, commitment, and... Read More

Nick Thorkelson tackles the formidable task of distilling the life and work of a respected modern philosopher into a well-paced graphic biography in "Herbert Marcuse, Philosopher of Utopia". Born in Germany, Marcuse was a World War I... Read More

There are two kinds of people in the moody, magical world of "Apprentice Needed": those who are opposed to imagination, and those who understand what a powerful force it can be. The second novel in the Wizard for Hire series revisits the... Read More

Even sinister cults need accountants. "Soul Remains", the second book in the Terribly Serious Darkness series by Sam Hooker, finds Sloot neck-deep in necromantic trouble. This whimsical, wry novel sends Sloot deeper into a magical world... Read More

Sophie’s got a hemangioma—a sure sign that she’s a monster, she thinks. In Wendy S. Swore’s tender A Monster Like Me, the imaginative grade schooler battles isolation and bullying to discover that growing stronger sometimes means... Read More

In his book "Hangdog Days", Jeff Smoot chronicles the controversial method of “hangdogging” a climbing route and the debate that raged during the 1980s in climbing circles about this method. Hangdogging is a rock climbing slang word... Read More

Ashley Poston is back with "The Princess and the Fangirl", another book set in the Geekerella universe of ExcelsiCon. Jessica Stone plays Princess Amara in Starfield, which has a huge fan following. When her character is killed off,... Read More

Co-founder of the Sierra Club, John Muir is best known in environmentalist circles. Julie Bertagna and William Goldsmith delightfully illuminate his life in their graphic novel "Wildheart". From his modest beginnings in Scotland, Muir... Read More