In volume one of LambCat’s graphic novel series "Cursed Princess Club", a kingdom’s three princesses negotiate their engagements to hunky suitors. Two of them celebrate these futures; the other goes on eldritch adventures of her own.... Read More

Ahmed Taibaoui’s literary novel "The Disappearance of Mr. Nobody" is about the crime and poverty-ridden underside of Algeria. The novel is split into two parts. Its first half follows an unnamed, impoverished, reclusive man, Mr.... Read More

The Chinese diaspora meets culinary ingenuity in "Have You Eaten Yet?", Cheuk Kwan’s robust food travelogue and social history of Chinese restaurants. Kwan, whose documentary Chinese Restaurants spanned five continents, revisits the... Read More

Dutch journalist Pieter van Os’s "Hiding in Plain Sight" is the biography of Mala Rivka Kizel, the only person in her Orthodox Jewish family to survive the Holocaust, which she did by passing as a gentile in Poland and Germany. Born in... Read More

In Laura Frantz’s eloquent Georgian romance novel "The Rose and the Thistle", an English lady goes into exile during the Jacobite uprising and has a fateful encounter with a Scottish earl. Blythe, the duke of Northumbria’s only... Read More

Susanne Pari’s "In the Time of Our History" is a sprawling story of loss and healing in the immigrant experiences of an Iranian American family. Sisters Anahita and Mitra are each other’s opposites. Anahita, the favorite, is married... Read More

In Bachtyar Ali’s novel "The Last Pomegranate Tree", a man’s search for truth leads to deep revelations. After more than two decades in prison, Muzafar has all but been forgotten. Only his old friend Yaqub knows he’s alive, and... Read More

"The Key to Circus-Mom Highway" is a zany novel in which two adoptees rediscover their family roots. In Allyson Rice’s feverish, entertaining novel "The Key to Circus-Mom Highway", siblings go on a road trip in search of their... Read More