In D. P. Lyle’s engrossing "Sunshine State", a team goes undercover to solve a layered mystery. Reluctant but effective PI Jake Longly journeys to a sleepy Florida town to prove that a murderer didn’t commit all of the crimes... Read More

Everyone’s favorite pet man returns in Caitlin Major and Kelly Bastow’s graphic novel "Manfried Saves the Day". A follow-up to last year’s Manfried the Man, "Manfried Saves the Day" brings back Manfried’s owner Steve Catson and... Read More

In the form of an extended, illustrated letter to her young daughter, Teresa Wong shares the difficulties she experienced after her pregnancy in her graphic novel "Dear Scarlet". Wong sets the stage by introducing her husband and... Read More

“The conversation hobbles on,” Harriet Shawcross observes at a camp for children with selective mutism. “Without daily practice, they grasp at topics like leaves in a stream, exchanging information, but never quite conversing.”... Read More

When their son, Hudson, begins having behavioral difficulties, Rosie and Don discover what comes with a weighty autism diagnosis. In Graeme Simsion’s "The Rosie Result", ten-year-old Hudson’s struggles to make friends and tendency to... Read More

Ari Silverman’s violent encounter with a neighborhood boy leaves him questioning himself in Aaron Hamburger’s "Nirvana Is Here", a coming-of-age novel set outside Detroit amid the rise of grunge. It is a nostalgic, wrenching... Read More

Delving deep into the psyche of teenage pain and identity-building, Aimee Herman’s "Everything Grows" turns dark circumstances into an encomium to the adults who help teens grow. Eleanor has trouble from all sides: she is still reeling... Read More

“Human diversity is neither a weakness, a threat, nor a fiction. Our diversity is a gift, and it is an undeniable reality,” writes Joshua Ferguson, an activist who is the first person to receive a non-binary birth certificate with an... Read More