A writer from New York mocks and satirizes himself and other Los Angeles residents in the midst of a forest fire in the satirical novel "In Extremis". In Matt Duggan’s incisive novel "In Extremis", a transplant writer from New York... Read More

"DIY Thrift Flip" is an encouraging, inspirational guide with instructions for turning thrift-store finds into more fashionable, fun, wearable clothes. Part of the enjoyment of thrifting is the hunt for a treasure, the book says. When... Read More

A man reconciles his father’s American culture with his mother’s Yanomami roots in the graphic memoir "Good." David Good has a dual lineage: his parents are an American-born anthropologist and a member of the Yanomami people of the... Read More

Sejal Shah’s intrepid short story collection "How to Make Your Mother Cry" is a polysemous encounter connecting auditory and visual modes. Interspersed with ephemera—memory-photographs, childlike drawings, Indian dance notations, a... Read More

A girl seeks to create lasting peace between warring groups in the graphic novel Matilde’s Quest. After an epic battle in the Golden City of Eyes, Boldon, Spike, and Matilde, who has a mechanical arm, secure passage to Matilde’s... Read More

A kingdom’s fate rests on the shoulders of a princess who deals with dragons in Ellen McGinty’s novel "Saints and Monsters". Meera’s back brace and blue hair draw the unjust denigration of others who consider her cursed. She is... Read More

Edited by Nicole C. Dittmer, "Penny Bloods" collects sensational tales of “monstrous women” from the penny newspapers of the nineteenth century. The stories are arranged in chronological order and are complemented with historical... Read More

A thorough biography-cum-true-crime book, "Black Postmaster in a White Town" reports on an overlooked nineteenth-century atrocity that affects the victims’ descendants to this day. Fostenia W. Baker’s biography of Frazier Baker,... Read More