Set in Newfoundland, Violet Browne’s evocative, lyrical novel "This Is the House That Luke Built" is about a woman from a small fishing village who loses her husband at sea. The novel traces fifty years in Rose’s life via brief,... Read More

In Franco Aureliani’s charming graphic novel "Fae and the Moon", a girl pulls the moon from the sky, hoping that it will bring her mother home to her. Fae lives in her little house with the company of two rats, Frik and Frak, and one... Read More

Ahmed Taibaoui’s literary novel "The Disappearance of Mr. Nobody" is about the crime and poverty-ridden underside of Algeria. The novel is split into two parts. Its first half follows an unnamed, impoverished, reclusive man, Mr.... Read More

In response to years of clear social upheaval in the United States, from renewed fights for social justice to new threats of authoritarianism, a new, diverse set of comedy voices are using humor in their activism. Caty Borum chronicles... 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

In Alfreda Beartrack-Algeo’s novel "The Roan Stallion", a thirteen-year-old hopes to tame a wild horse. Alfred Swallow watches his aging grandfather cut the scope of his farm. Without Alfred’s missing father, the work is too much for... Read More

Anastasia C. Curwood’s vibrant biography of Shirley Chisholm reveals a tenacious congresswoman and presidential candidate. Curwood writes that Chisholm, the daughter of Caribbean immigrants and a Democratic party trailblazer, possessed... Read More