Those fallible kings who are left standing witness the storied rise of their indomnitable queens in Mindi Meltz’s stunning fantasy novel The Queen’s Rain, the third book of the After Ever After series. King Sol is dead, and Sirenia... Read More

The life and career of rock superstar David Bowie is charted in the graphic biography "David Bowie in Comics". David Bowie’s music is as memorable as his frequent, bold experimentation in sound and presentation. From his childhood in... Read More

In Nicole Bea’s fantasy novel "Beneath the Starlit Sea", a captive sorceress is called upon to fight monsters, even as the king she serves treats her like one. Illyse lives a quiet life in a cottage until guards from King Whys kidnap... Read More

"The 16th Second" is the inspiring memoir of a stripper who became an activist. Ted A. Richard’s encouraging memoir "The 16th Second" concerns his work as a stripper during the 1980s and 1990s, as well as his experiences with... Read More

Textured illustrations and clean lines complement this story about the love between people and pets. A little boy wants a dog, but his mother refuses, saying dogs are too much work. When a cat shows up on their doorstep on a rainy night,... Read More

In Robert McGill’s speculative novel, complex social problems are met with an innovative, controversial technology that bursts onto the black market scene. After eighteen-year-old Regan decides to kill herself, she orders a toxic... Read More

The line between figurative and literal beasts is blurred in the inventive stories of Sam J. Miller’s Boys, Beasts & Men. The book’s conjured funhouse worlds are both familiar and alien. Small-town family tensions are exacerbated... Read More

Stereotypes of brutish, unintelligent Neanderthals are pulverized by Rebecca Wragg Sykes in her tender, absorbing profile of our hominin cousins. "Kindred" is a comprehensive review of the most up-to-date theories and technological... Read More