Ursula Pike’s travel memoir "An Indian Among Los Indígenas" covers her two transformative, eye-opening years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bolivia, which fulfilled her desire to “see the world, learn some skills, and help people”... Read More

Andrea Thalasinos’s novel "The Loneliness of Horses" follows two animal-loving women in Canada. When Belle leaves Scotland in 1778 searching for a different life, she doesn’t know what she will find. Her horses bring her company even... Read More

Familiar yet otherworldly, Errick Nunnally’s novel "The Queen of Saturn and the Prince in Exile" follows a Black boy growing up in 1970s Boston. Approaching his teenage years, Sean listens to his mother Sojourner’s stories about... Read More

Daniel Tammet’s "Nine Minds" is a biographical mosaic of neurodivergence built of stories of individuals whose struggles and achievements defy the clichés surrounding autism. The book presents autism not as a “disorder” but as a... Read More

A girl competes in an intergalactic cooking contest in Nicolas Wouters’s graphic novel "Magda, Intergalactic Chef". Magda is hesitant about participating in her planet’s cooking tournament but does so to appease her family. Her... Read More

An astronaut suffering from insomnia is stalked by a presence aboard a space station in the ominous graphic novel "Station Grand". Michael returns to Station Grand for a long solo assignment. His only company is a computer, which tracks... Read More

Immersed in an endemic sense of grief, Cara Stoddard’s coming-of-age memoir "Spirography" is about cancer’s enduring presence in her life. At seven years old, Stoddard was diagnosed with a pediatric germ cell tumor. Thereafter,... Read More

The innocence of boyhood is eclipsed by a fraught world in Vijay Khurana’s coming-of-age novel "The Passenger Seat". From the first page, Teddy and Adam are described as “boys, or men,” as if even the narrator is uncertain about... Read More