The exciting political thriller "Sanctions in Paradise" works to acknowledge racism via an apartheid plot during an island-set conference. In Peter Nicholl’s novel "Sanctions in Paradise", a speechwriter attends a conference whose goal... Read More

Prohibition-era anthropomorphic cats try to operate an illegal speakeasy in the intricate graphic novel Lackadaisy: Volume 2, a volume born as a webcomic that has seen animated treatment. In 1927 in Saint Louis, Missouri, widowed Mitzi... Read More

In Tatsuhiko Shibusawa’s allegorical novel Takaoka’s Travels, there are questions about whether a lifelong dream to reach the Buddha’s place of origin is worth it. Takaoka had a close relationship with his father’s consort,... Read More

Covering a consequential canine adoption, the hopeful pet memoir "The Mutt for Me" is about the transformative power of loving animals. Don Hughes’s touching memoir "The Mutt for Me" is about rescuing a dog and finding salvation in the... Read More

A couple and a motel owner whose paths only cross once a year process their grief via alternating perspectives in Janet Goldberg’s novel The Proprietor’s Song. Every spring, Grace and Elwood Fisher drive the same route to Death... Read More

The satirical novel "From G to PG to R to X" delights in following the world’s cocksure zooming in the wrong direction. Stephen C. Bird’s satirical novel "From G to PG to R to X" follows the devolution of national politics, sexual... Read More

"Go with Me on This" is the romping memoir of a Canadian farm boy who forged an extraordinary career in radio. Troy Schaab’s adventurous memoir "Go with Me on This" is about how the once unlucky radio school graduate became the owner... Read More

"California Fever" is a classic, surfer-set whodunit in which all is revealed and made well. John J. Jacobson’s funny, cozy mystery novel "California Fever" features surf culture and capers as a man gets entangled with oddballs during... Read More