This unconventional alphabet book teaches children their ABCs alongside respect for language diversity. Here, f is for butterfly—flutur in Albanian—and octopus starts with a t—tako, from Japanese. Sixty-nine languages are... Read More

A young man is drawn to the culinary arts and a coworker in the romantic graphic novel Chef’s Kiss. Ben, a recent college graduate with an English degree and aspirations of becoming a writer, is having difficulty finding work in his... Read More

Roman historians have cast Hannibal Barca as a cruel, uncouth barbarian, but Philip Freeman’s panoramic biography "Hannibal" supplies evidence that the great Carthaginian military leader, whose strategic and tactical genius has been... Read More

Everyone is looking for something in Reyes Ramirez’s story collection The Book of Wanderers. Across ten stories, each focal character is a wanderer in their own way. Some are searching for connection, as in “Ni Sabes, Tomás de la... Read More

The Spectacular Shenanigans of Mr. P’choka and Earl is a funny and energetic graphic novel. A former logistical consultant and his companion race to defeat an alien corporation that puts profit before preservation in the quirky,... Read More

"Iron Boy" is a memoir about illness, superstition, and the ultimate arrival of hope. "Iron Boy" is Arthur Bozikas’s moving memoir about learning to live with a chronic illness. Bozikas was twelve when he was first told that he... Read More

In the fantastical novel "Crazy Time", a woman who is suspended between life and death contemplates the nature of reality. A series of traumatic events leads a woman into a battle between good and evil in L. Andrew Cooper’s surreal... Read More

A Soldier’s Heart is an affecting memoir about the traumas that war inflicts. Raynold A. Gauvin’s memoir A Soldier’s Heart is about the trauma that followed his military service in Vietnam. For Gauvin, the Vietnam War had a lasting... Read More