With illustrations that evoke animated films, this picture book encourages children to dance to the beat of their own drums. Lady B. Marie, known as Jitterbug, is a ladybug who lives and breathes rock ‘n’ roll; the other... 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

Linda P.J. Lipsen’s "Pressed Plants" is a hobbyist’s botany book marked by deep wisdom. The book gives plant lovers the information they need to collect, press, and organize their own plant specimens. The sequential chapters document... Read More

In Emma Batchelor’s semiautobiographical novel "Now That I See You", a thirty-year-old woman processes her reactions after her partner tells her they are transgender. When her partner, Jess, reveals that they are femme, the narrator is... Read More

First published in 1922, Cicely Hamilton’s science fiction novel "Theodore Savage" follows English society’s descent into savagery after a war wipes out its civilization. Theodore Savage is a model of a modern middle-class... Read More

A teenage girl befriends a misunderstood sea monster in the graphic novel "Pearl of the Sea". Pearl lives with her father by the sea in South Africa, but with little work for him in the area, making the rent each month is a major... Read More

Wayne Johnston’s moving, often funny memoir Jennie’s Boy concerns his hardscrabble Newfoundland childhood, which was marked by chronic illness. Although Jenny married Art, “the first educated man she’d ever met,” to elevate... Read More

In Mimi Herman’s lush historical novel "The Kudzu Queen", a clever Southern teenager’s sense of justice inspires her to expose the truth about a magnetic newcomer. Mattie is fifteen and feeling eager for change when she and the rest... Read More