A sixth grader navigates life’s hard knocks with wit, some wisdom, and experience in Big Nate: Nailed It!, the latest collection of the long-running syndicated comic strip. Nate, seeking to better his fortune, decides he needs a good... Read More

"Serving Herself" is Ashley Brown’s impressive biography of Althea Gibson, a multifaceted trailblazer in sports. Gibson was a sports prodigy whose drive and career path bewildered her working-class family. She had to take side gigs to... Read More

The universe is strange and wonderful, as Jillian Scudder reveals in "The Milky Way Smells of Rum and Raspberries", a book that balances its reverence for science with respect for its audience’s intelligence. Did you know that the moon... Read More

Art professor A. Laurie Palmer’s musing interdisciplinary work "The Lichen Museum" draws life lessons from often-overlooked organisms. Lichens, Palmer notes, have served as food, drink, dye, and decoration for millennia, though their... Read More

Memory, family, and generational trauma guide Marina Jarre’s steps in her Holocaust memoir "Return to Latvia". Jarre was young when her parents separated. She left Latvia and grew up in Italy with her Italian mother; she maintained no... Read More

Bass guitarist Rose Marshack’s memoir "Play Like a Man" chronicles her experiences with the indie rock band Poster Children and with Salaryman, Poster Children’s “electronic alter-ego.” Raised in the Chicago suburbs, Marshack was... Read More

A young woman is trapped in a recurring loop of loves gained and lost in different places and eras in the surreal graphic novel "Love Everlasting". Joan, a pretty young woman living sometime in the 1950s, works as the secretary to her... Read More

Beth Moore’s moving memoir "All My Knotted-Up Life" concerns the troubles and triumphs of Christian ministry. This confessional, powerful, and testimonial story of Moore’s life begins in her childhood, treating her hardscrabble roots... Read More