A budding ecologist finds her voice in Kimberly Behre Kenna’s delightful novel "Artemis Sparke and the Sound Seekers Brigade". When twelve-year-old nature-loving Artemis finds BB pellets in her beloved salt marsh, she is determined to... 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

Brave tribal members battle religious warriors who are bent on exterminating those who don’t follow their god in the Mesoamerican-inspired fantasy graphic novel "Battle at Cobán Rock". A large cast of characters populates this world,... Read More

In the dozen linked short stories of Rachel King’s gritty collection "Bratwurst Haven", lovable, flawed characters navigate aging, parenthood, and relationships. Set in Colorado in the recent past, the book depicts a gentrifying area... Read More

This is Eden? is a careful historical novel that follows a pioneering family woman along her new adventure. A Christian family from Chicago moves to rural Wisconsin in Nancy Radcliffe’s brisk historical novel This is Eden?, a story... Read More

Cary Fagan’s "The Animals" is a gentle burlesque in which bureaucratic whims alter the downward trajectory of a nondescript, struggling tourist town. After the brief defiance of a semester spent studying architecture, Dorn succumbed to... Read More

Tessa Brunton shares her experiences living with myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome, in her graphic memoir "Notes from a Sickbed". Myalgic encephalomyelitis is a little-understood disease that produces... Read More