Morgan Boecher’s emotive graphic novel "Chicken Heart" is an exploration of individual gender identity. Just before working a stand-up comedy set, Jackie reads a letter from the Chicken Heart Love Commune informing him of the death and... Read More

Women, blue-collar workers, and Indigenous people in Mexico respond in hallucinatory ways to the violence of men and abusive authority figures in Elena Garro’s intricate short story collection "The Week of Colors". Incorporating... Read More

"Fauxmances and Wedding Bouquets" is a charming romance novel filled with engaging personalities and magical flourishes. Filled with flirty banter, anticipatory tension, and small-town mysticism, Natalie May’s funny and surprising... Read More

A woman discovers her new fiancé and his family are not what they seem in Audrey Wilson’s Midwestern thriller "The Ever End". Following her mother’s death, Margo represses her grief with an engagement to Sam, her boyfriend of six... Read More

James Patrick Thomas’s incisive memoir "Atomic Pilgrim" recalls his 6,700-mile pilgrimage to witness, reveal, and protest the true human costs of nuclear weapons. A child during the Cold War, Thomas recalls sirens calling students to... Read More

The vulnerable memoir "To Depression, with Love" is a deep portrait of a life shaped by depression and anxiety. Reflecting on a lifetime shaped by mental illness, Marsha Jacobson’s memoir "To Depression, with Love" is compassionate in... Read More

A thought-provoking and entertaining novel, "Forever We Dream" follows triplets in their pursuit to find their missing mother. In Mark Workman’s charming novel "Forever We Dream", teenage triplets use a talent competition to search for... Read More

A moving memoir that details the ups and downs of parenting disabled children, "Silence and Light" argues that there’s a need for greater awareness around deafblindness. Lanya McKittrick’s powerful memoir of crisis, hope, and... Read More