In a neighborhood sea of Christmas decorations and holiday cheer, Isaac’s is the lone home not decked out in red and green lights. And even though he and his friend, Teresa, express their holiday excitement together, Isaac knows that... Read More

Inspired by Finnish mythology and folklore, "Oksi" is a grand, memorable graphic novel about family, jealousy, and love. Umi is a mother bear with several cubs. One, Poorling, is different from the others. Scaup, a primordial god in the... Read More

“Planets are born from the chaos of countless collisions,” Simone Marchi writes in "Colliding Worlds", which cites everything from lunar craters to gold seams as evidence of interplanetary impacts. Space rocks have not existed from... Read More

In Mariana Dimópulos’s novel "Imminence", a woman fears the resurgence of her aimless, unhappy past. Though she’s been pressured to marry, have children, and behave in subservient, restrictive ways, the narrator doesn’t fit the... Read More

Chef Kevin Mitchell and Professor David S. Shields crisscross South Carolina geography and social history in "Taste the State". Their alphabetical compendium of stories, recipes, and photographs champions the Palmetto State’s... Read More

Anna Lee Huber’s "Murder Most Fair" is a captivating story set in post-World War I Britain. Verity Kent was a Secret Service agent during WWI. Though sworn to secrecy by the Official Secrets Act, in Germany, Verity divulged her wartime... Read More

The learned doctor’s memoir "Different Drummer" covers personal contributions to coronary angioplasty revolutions. Douglass Andrew Morrison’s memoir "Different Drummer" concerns a career in academic medicine and cardiology, as well... Read More

The speculative text "Social Consciousness Pedagogy" synthesizes intriguing ideas from disparate fields to suggest beneficial modifications to human belief systems. Charles Pidgeon’s "Social Consciousness Pedagogy" draws on multiple... Read More