A politically minded couple embarks on a semiambitious cross-country road trip in the comedic graphic novel "Amongst the Liberal Elite". Armed with a tax refund, the liberal-leaning Michael and Alex, along with their cat Kittery (who’s... Read More

Ben Barnz’s partner has a theory that there is a major generational shift for gay people every five years. This book, then, is a memoir from almost four zeitgeist changes ago. Beginning in the week of the 9/11 attacks, "We" is a taste... Read More

In 1939, a team from Garfield, New Jersey, traveled to Miami for the high school football championship. The event drew wide attention. The upstart Garfield Boilermakers came from an immigrant-heavy northern city to face the perennial... Read More

David Stubbs’s "Future Sounds" takes on the gargantuan task of providing an overview of the entire history of electronic music, from the influence of English philosopher Francis Bacon back in 1626 to the smashing success of electronic... Read More

Thirteen-year-old Silke is the heroine of her own story—a girl who knows that you “never, ever let a dragon handle diplomacy,” since a dragon’s idea of diplomacy is to point out that dragons don’t eat humans…anymore. She... Read More

Mardi McConnochie’s middle grade, cli-fi dystopia is a wild adventure across a wildly different Earth. In the world before the flood, human beings tried to correct their own folly by adding to it, hoping to counteract a climate... Read More

A fascinating, up-close look at ecologically sensitive Midwestern farmers, Brian DeVore’s "Wildly Successful Farming" features intriguing observations—such as that individuals trained in natural resources fields like conservation and... Read More

Empathy—the ability to feel deeply what another person feels—was long thought to be an inborn trait, but Dr. Helen Riess proves that life-transforming empathy skills can be taught. This comes as good news in these days when empathy... Read More