"Koa Kai" is a thrilling transformation story in which a boy from New England becomes a powerful warrior. Informed by real events, D. R. Pollock’s historical novel "Koa Kai" follows a teenager’s inspiring adventure in 1790s Hawaii.... Read More

With its encouraging message, this picture book will appeal to young pet lovers. Norma Lindsay’s inspiring picture book "Pussninks" draws inspiration from a real-life three-legged cat; he may have a handicap, but that doesn’t stop... Read More

Long stretches of hunger, sleep deprivation, filth, fear-filled nights under bridges, and the accompanying existential questions will leave a mark on a man, and his poetry. Kai Carlson-Wee lays it out there in this shy, wistful,... Read More

Starting with the adventure of a little girl who must find and retrieve her father’s bones from the bottom of the ocean, "The Secret of the Purple Lake" is a series of five compelling stories by Yaba Badoe. Each story has the rhythm... Read More

In Hilary Plum’s "Strawberry Fields", myriad memorable protagonists report on tragedies from hotspots around the world with vivid language. Though many of the point-of-view chapters are only loosely connected, they add up to a bleak... Read More

"Dark Ark" presents an intriguing variation on the biblical story of Noah. What if there were another ark, commissioned by a dark force to save earth’s monsters? Vampires, manticores, chimeras, ghouls, werewolves, and unicorns populate... Read More

In her graphic novel memoir "Algeria is Beautiful Like America", Olivia Burton travels to her family’s former homeland, only to find that many of her beliefs about her family’s past, and Algeria as a whole, are wrong. Burton begins... Read More

"Rubik" is a novel of ghosts—those of memory, technology, relationships, emotion, and bodies—all of them permanently impermanent. Released into these terrains, characters disappear and reappear in strange ways or not at all, the... Read More