Hand embroidery can be a means of learning about oneself according to Hope Brasfield’s "Satisfying Stitches", a crafting book with cute, accessible patterns for people new to the practice. Herein, embroidery is a “corrective... Read More

In Alfreda Beartrack-Algeo’s novel "The Roan Stallion", a thirteen-year-old hopes to tame a wild horse. Alfred Swallow watches his aging grandfather cut the scope of his farm. Without Alfred’s missing father, the work is too much for... Read More

An unhappy housewife learns to cope with loss and trauma in Maki Kashimada’s novel "Love at Six Thousand Degrees". One day, for no apparent reason, a woman leaves her child at the neighbor’s and runs away. Her morbid fascination with... Read More

A work of photographic alchemy, "Light Waves" is an impressive collection that showcases the dramatic, shifting natural wonder that is Lake Superior. Years of kayaking along the shores of Lake Superior, sometimes for weeks at a time, are... Read More

Woylies, jerboas, and other creatures populate Tracey Hecht’s winsome Nocturnals companion The Nocturnals Explore: Unique Adaptations of Nighttime Animals. Dawn, a red fox, invites her friends Tobin the pangolin and Bismark the sugar... Read More

An alien seeking salvation for his planet falls prey to the vices of human beings in the graphic novel adaptation of "The Man Who Fell to Earth". Based on the 1976 science fiction film of the same name, which was itself adapted from a... Read More

"Ewaso Village" is a sensitive photojournalist’s account of time spent with the Maasai people of Kenya. Photojournalist and documentary filmmaker Chip Duncan’s "Ewaso Village" focuses on the Kenyan Maasai community, capturing them... Read More

“You will be the storyteller,” navigating through this exquisite wordless picture book whose images suggest deep tales, but do not over pronounce their parameters. Each feathery illustration plays with proportions and subverts... Read More