A girl explores a strange world of magic in K. B. Spangler and Alexandra Presser’s fantastical graphic novel "SideQuested". Charlie trains to be a librarian. Her plans are upset when she learns that her caretakers of eighteen years are... Read More

A. Natasha Joukovsky’s delicious, multilayered novel "Medium Rare" muses on contemporary American culture through an average man’s foray to unimagined heights. Phil, a discontented lobbyist of middling employment, happens to predict... Read More

Lindsay H. Metcalf’s enthralling biographical novel-in-verse highlights the scientist’s contributions and challenges as an inventor, wife, and mother in the 1800s. "Footeprint" begins with baby Eunice “kicking the glass ceiling /... Read More

Featuring lush photography and innovative recipes, Chef Julian Lopez’s "The New Cafe Beaujolais Cookbook" captures the history and ambiance of a popular Northern California restaurant. Highlighting the café’s fifty-year history, the... Read More

A baker solves murders during a highland train tour in Rebecca Connolly’s charming cozy mystery novel "Mayhem on the Marzipan Express". Alan is the celebrity judge of a baking show. He promotes himself by hosting a trip for paying fans... Read More

In Rebecca Ferrier’s captivating novel "A Spell for Drowning", sisters’ fates are tied to the mythical beings off the Cornish coast. Kensa lives in Cornwall. Her outlaw father was executed; her mother remarried. Charged with watching... Read More

The world transforms around a strange, charismatic girl who was trained to keep her eyes on the skies in the bizarre, wondrous novel "The High Heaven". Orphaned when the cult she was raised in went out to meet alien angels and instead... Read More

A young bird staves off mass destruction in the fantastical graphic novel Haru Book 3: Fall. Haru, a bird who’s unable to fly, meets his apparent death at the hands of Blight, a corrupted force bent on ravaging the world. Caught in the... Read More