Recovering from pneumonia, Nellie Bly accepts an intrepid journalism student’s requests to meet and discuss her career in Luciana Cimino’s graphic biography "The Incredible Nellie Bly". In 1921, to celebrate the Columbia University... Read More
In "Quincredible", a New Orleans teenager learns to fight for justice—with his superpower and without it. Quin is easygoing and has an interest in electronics; he strives for recognition from Brittany, the smartest girl in his school.... Read More
In the compelling time travel fantasy novel "The Pinkerton and the Wizard", two men battle their pasts in the hopes of bettering their futures. In Harvey Hetrick’s thrilling fantasy novel "The Pinkerton and the Wizard", a mythological... Read More
A money-ruled future is the setting for the inspired, unnerving graphic novel "Plutocracy". Homero quits his job as a detective and turns to investigative journalism, researching the Company, the all-powerful organization that has united... Read More
Claire B. Willis and Marnie Crawford Samuelson’s "Opening to Grief" is a companion for people facing loss. Grief is a pressing force that often drives people to isolate or close themselves off to new experiences, but “grief and love... Read More
In Tziporah Cohen’s "No Vacancy", an eleven-year-old leaves New York City after her parents buy a rundown motel upstate. At the Jewel Motor Inn, in New York’s Finger Lakes region, Miriam shares a grimy room, painted a color... Read More
In Mathew New’s absurdist graphic novel, a teenage boy and his talking duck seek out adventure in an attempt to prove the boy’s worth as an explorer. Billy, a part-time janitor, is really an explorer. With Barrace, a duck who is also... Read More
Caitlin Chung’s wondrous "Ship of Fates" begins with the ancient legend of Wong Zhi Mei, a Chinese bride promised by her family to a foreign suitor. But teenage Mei yearns for true love, and she steals the suitor’s proffered gold and... Read More