A rising sea level is an inevitability, write Orrin Pilkey and Keith Pilkey in "Sea Level Rise", whose research concentrates on the American shoreline. Factual prose avoids sensationalism around the causes and impact of climate change,... Read More

Exquisite artwork combines with a surreal story line to create a singular reading experience in Keren Katz’s graphic novel "The Backstage of a Dishwashing Webshow". The book follows Rivi, who, after a brief time serving as an air... Read More

A new origin story for the unpredictable antihero Harley Quinn is revealed in Mariko Tamaki’s Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass. It portrays her as a quirky teenager sent to live in Gotham City, where she’s “adopted” by a kind but... Read More

Cancer statistics are grim: one in two men and one in three women will get the disease in their lifetime. Ever more frightening is that no one in the medical industry has a decent explanation for why the incidence of cancer has increased... Read More

Kassy O’Rourke, Cub Reporter is a juicy middle grade mystery in which a young investigator learns that it’s okay to be vulnerable. Kelly Oliver’s middle grade mystery Kassy O’Rourke, Cub Reporter is filled with adventures,... Read More

Damián Lobo is a fix-it man who’s unable to fix his own life. Middle-aged and just laid off from his dead end janitorial job, he wanders Madrid’s streets alone, imagining himself as an interview subject—and figure of ridicule—on... Read More

In the aftermath of World War II, as the Russian army rolled through East Prussia, many German citizens were displaced. Women were raped and children starved, their army husbands nowhere to be found, presumably dead or prisoners of war.... Read More

Ask in Prayer is an earnest memoir about a spiritual life led at the fringes of American religions. Tom Bowers’s contemplative memoir Ask in Prayer is about a search for, and a discovery of, a seeker’s faith. Bowers’s is a story of... Read More