The intimate short stories of Rilla Askew’s "The Hungry and the Haunted" illuminate lives touched by grief, guilt, and social change. Set in Oklahoma and the American Southwest during the 1970s and told across multiple perspectives,... Read More

The threat of climate change looms over the short stories of Ashley Shelby’s "Honeymoons in Temporary Locations", resulting in a zesty mix of humor, speculative science fiction, and melancholia. Set in a future wracked by environmental... Read More

Maria Sweeney documents her life with a rare disability in her graphic memoir "Brittle Joints". From childhood onward, Sweeney lived with pain and uncertainty related to her diagnosis with Bruck syndrome, a progressive condition that... Read More

Grief, lies, and death haunt Alice Dailey’s intense, intimate memoir "Mother of Stories". Dailey, a scholar and educator focused on the portrayal of death in historical literature, takes an unusual approach to writing about the effects... Read More

In the charming graphic novel Time Buddies, a spin-off from the Cat Ninja series, a schoolboy and a talking owl traverse millennia. On a museum field trip, Bentley is fascinated by hieroglyphics and sees one image that resembles him. In... Read More

A young woman grapples with mental illness in the fun, edifying graphic memoir "A Fox in My Brain". When she was sixteen, Lubie was diagnosed with depression by her family doctor. She gave up on treatment when her symptoms improved, not... Read More

"Equipped to Thrive" is an enlightening how-to manual for healthcentric, student-first K–12 education in the post-COVID age. Through passionate and convincing research, Tiah E. McKinney’s educator’s guide "Equipped to Thrive"... Read More

Encouraging people to step back from the chaos and complexity of adulthood and renew their childhood senses of wonder, "Life Clues" is an exuberant self-help text that leads by example. Angela C. Santomero was fascinated with Mister... Read More