An affecting graphic novel about political persecution in the midst of a civil war, "Justice" captures a perilous period well. A family tries to survive the turmoil of war in Ram Khatri’s historical graphic novel "Justice". Tara was a... Read More

"The Race Girl" is a complex saga about ambition, betrayal, and true love. Race cars, star-crossed lovers, and financial intrigue fuel James Herbert Harrison’s high-octane novel "The Race Girl". Beginning with a Las Vegas car crash and... Read More

A knowledgeable heroine trains a prophesied hero to face down an unrelenting curse in the thrilling fantasy novel "The Chosen One". A heroic warrior spreads a message of loving-kindness in Ashley LeBlanc’s fantasy novel "The Chosen... Read More

“Extraordinary people doing a most ordinary thing” is how rock journalist Michael Azerrad sums up the images in Guzman’s "Family Values". Drawn from a fall 1992 photo session for Spin magazine, this collection captures grunge rock... Read More

In Chad Corrie’s dystopian novel "As the Sparrow Flies", people fight extinction in the face of a religious war. Elliott is a squire who aspires to knighthood. He hopes to join an army that believes Pyre is the main deity. He thinks... Read More

Supernatural horrors meet frank discussions of mental health in Ethan and Naomi Sacks’s bighearted graphic novel "A Haunted Girl". After a suicide attempt and a stay in a psychiatric ward, Cleo struggles to reintegrate. She avoids her... Read More

With memoir entries for transgender youths by transgender people, "Becoming Who We Are" is a comics anthology about the process of becoming yourself as a transgender person. It includes essential representation along with a... Read More

A girl in a whaling village investigates several disappearances in Crystal J. Bell’s mesmerizing historical novel "The Lamplighter". Even as self-reliant eighteen-year-old Temperance mourns her father, who was hanged, she takes up his... Read More