Among the strands that shape a person’s identity, family may be one of the most influential. Sergei Lebedev delves into one such family in "The Goose Fritz", an impressive tangle of branches in a single ancestral tree. Kirill has... Read More

In Aatif Rashid’s witty and dissolute "Portrait of Sebastian Khan", a Muslim American college student is conflicted by his love for free-spirited pleasure and the more conventional realities of accomplishment, commitment, and... Read More

Nick Thorkelson tackles the formidable task of distilling the life and work of a respected modern philosopher into a well-paced graphic biography in "Herbert Marcuse, Philosopher of Utopia". Born in Germany, Marcuse was a World War I... Read More

Sophie’s got a hemangioma—a sure sign that she’s a monster, she thinks. In Wendy S. Swore’s tender A Monster Like Me, the imaginative grade schooler battles isolation and bullying to discover that growing stronger sometimes means... Read More

Co-founder of the Sierra Club, John Muir is best known in environmentalist circles. Julie Bertagna and William Goldsmith delightfully illuminate his life in their graphic novel "Wildheart". From his modest beginnings in Scotland, Muir... Read More

Populism has become one of the defining political movements of the twenty-first century, and Carlos de la Torre’s Populisms: A Quick Immersion works to demystify it. Taking on, and taking down, some of the biggest misconceptions about... Read More

Share the magic of world-renowned painter and ornithologist John James Audubon in this lively board book filled with soft colors and gently flowing rhymes. Young nature lovers will delight in identifying wings, beaks, eggs, and nests... Read More

"The Anatomy of Silence", edited by Cyra Perry Dougherty, comes with a trigger warning but won’t apologize for its content. A collection of twenty-six narratives on sexual violence in the United States and globally, it pushes back... Read More