The self-help guide "So Embarrassing" is designed for teenagers and uses humor to spell out survival tactics for falls, flatulence, and other mortifying moments. Guided by a large cast of cartoon characters, the book devotes its chapters... Read More

Elisa Macellari’s graphic biography "Kusama" concentrates on the life and work of artist Yayoi Kusama. The book follows a natural arc, moving from Kusama’s childhood in Japan, and her first interest in art, to her years of growing... Read More

A lonely eleven-year-old discovers a secret underworld filled with gnomes and trolls in Jeff Dinardo’s quirky fantasy tale, "The One Great Gnome". The day after she and her parents move from New York City to rural Connecticut, Sarah... Read More

A family holiday takes a turn for the strange and tragic in Marie NDiaye’s novel "That Time of Year". On the last day of their summer vacation, Herman’s wife and son go missing. His only chance of finding them, according to his sole... Read More

Call me Immigrant. In your country, I do the essential work to keep your living standards high, even as you jeer at me and pay me nowhere near the same dollars you do to your exalted citizens, for the same work. Of late, I am coming into... Read More

Kateri Ewing’s "Watercolor Is for Everyone" encourages an intuitive, meditative practice to inspire original creations. Based on a workshop to encourage anyone to try their hand at watercolor, this step-by-step, lesson-filled book’s... Read More

A lab-grown, human-goat hybrid is subjected to careful study and subtle manipulation as part of a larger goal in The Cloven: Book One. James “Tuck” Tucker, a young man with cloven hooves instead of feet, wakes in a lab with no idea... Read More

Drawing on personal experiences and cultural analysis, Jaswinder Bolina’s essay collection "Of Color" is an important examination of race in the US. The son of Sikh Punjabi immigrants by way of London, Bolina writes about navigating a... Read More