A popular middle school student navigates family betrayal and a crush on another girl in Melanie Florence’s heartfelt novel "Jazz Davies Skips a Beat". Jazz struggles with feelings of abandonment and loneliness after her mother leaves... Read More

In Sam K MacKinnon’s tender novel "The Body Riddle", a transmasculine illustrator struggles with discrimination and self-doubt as they grow into a better version of themselves. Lex is stuck. Their freelance work has dried up, their... Read More

Brianna Lambert’s holistic spiritual guidebook "Created to Play" is about spiritual formation via playfulness. Rooted in Christian scripture, Lambert’s book leads overworked, overwhelmed believers to discover how their lives might... Read More

South African scholar Julia Martin’s mesmerizing and evocative memoir covers sponge diving from an anthropological perspective. While on sabbatical, Martin traveled to the Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean Sea to study Porifera, whose... Read More

Robert B. Marks’s comprehensive natural history text Deep Time in Mono Basin concerns a sensitive lake ecosystem in northeastern California. The Mono Lake Basin, at the edge of the Sierra Nevada, serves a vital ecological role as one... Read More

About the abiding love of two young men across lifetimes, January Sun’s fantastical graphic novel "The Reaper and the Waiting" is steeped in Chinese culture, mythology, and history. Dwelling in the liminal space between life and death,... Read More

In Alasdair Beckett-King’s playful mystery novel Montgomery Bonbon: Sabotage at Sea, a shipboard death leads to a buoyant investigation driven by a disguise and a deductive performance. When a sea captain dies and his body vanishes... Read More

At turns whimsical, thought-provoking, and heartbreaking, this sentimental picture book invites readers of all ages to celebrate the “lasts” in life, from the undesirable pieces of candy left in the bag to the final farewell to a... Read More