"Votes of Confidence" teaches citizens about the importance of the electoral process through evidence and examples. A masterful overview of the history and mechanics of US elections, Jeff Fleischer’s "Votes of Confidence" is a... Read More

Capturing the imagination with a welcome dark tone, "Animal Husbandry" is a satisfying short story collection. The short stories in Jeff Fleischer’s collection "Animal Husbandry" range from fun and bizarre to thought-provoking and... Read More

Alexandra Furnea links the nightmarish suffering of burn victims to the pervasive impacts of statewide corruption in "Diary of 66", her memoir about surviving the 2015 Colectiv Club fire. Widespread bribery throughout Romania meant that... Read More

Margaret Eby’s cheeky cookbook "You Gotta Eat" lays out fresh ideas for cranking out a pleasurable meal despite zero energy or desire to cook. From zhuzhing up bean salads to blending wilted produce into sauces and dips and whipping up... Read More

Two young people wonder whether to board the last shuttles from their doomed planet in the graphic novel "Space Junk". In a dystopian universe where worlds are abandoned after being stripped of resources, Faith and Hoshi await their turn... Read More

While some bars in Chicago have served Jeppson’s Malört for nearly a century, in the past two decades, the bitter, wormwood-derived botanical spirit found new life as both a niche favorite and an ironic countercultural drink. That... Read More

The story of the Holocaust told through the journey of a violin, this powerful picture book fans a spark of hope into an enduring flame. Papa delights his family by playing the violin—until Nazis arrive on their doorstep, seizing their... Read More

A girl resists the limits imposed by her class and gender, daring to seek a new kind of life (with some supernatural help), in Sacha Lamb’s wonder-filled historical novel "The Forbidden Book". In a shtetl whose rabbi possesses a text... Read More