A botany-themed meditation on memory, absence, and loss, "Ephemera" is a beautiful graphic memoir. Returning to her childhood home, Briana Loewinsohn seeks to restore the gardens and plants that had dried up and became overgrown. Through... Read More

In Mary Ann Miller’s chilling mystery novel "Bones Under the Ice", cold temperatures are no barrier to murder. In the days following a blizzard, the body of a pregnant teenager is uncovered in a snowdrift outside of rural Fields... Read More

In Sarit Yishai-Levi’s sprawling historical novel "The Woman Beyond the Sea", three generations of women consider what it means to love and the power of knowing your history. Although its chapters are narrated by a rotating cast, the... Read More

Drawing on historical records and imaginative recreations, "By Water" is the graphic biography of a leading figure of the Radical Reformation. In the early sixteenth century, Felix Manz, a Swiss Anabaptist, protested against the baptism... Read More

In Shay Galloway’s novel "The Valley of Sage and Juniper", sisters struggle for independence and to keep their family’s ranch. Isaiah and Genesis were so named by their devout mother, Addie. Isaiah is defiant yet mystical, with the... Read More

Though Charles Darwin is the more celebrated founder of theories of evolution and natural selection, his brilliant colleague Alfred Russel Wallace worked out these ideas, too. James T. Costa’s entertaining illustrated biography marks... Read More

A man struggles with past trauma and an uncertain future in Jinwoo Chong’s novel "Flux". A few days before Christmas, Brandon is laid off, falls down an elevator shaft, and blows it with both his boyfriend and a new girl he likes. In... Read More

"Insubordinate" is an optimistic self-help book for modern women who want to bridge the gap between literary examples of women’s power and the needs of their own working lives. Drawing on global leadership knowledge, Jocelyn Davis’s... Read More