In volume one of LambCat’s graphic novel series "Cursed Princess Club", a kingdom’s three princesses negotiate their engagements to hunky suitors. Two of them celebrate these futures; the other goes on eldritch adventures of her own.... Read More

A teenage girl befriends a misunderstood sea monster in the graphic novel "Pearl of the Sea". Pearl lives with her father by the sea in South Africa, but with little work for him in the area, making the rent each month is a major... Read More

In "Between Starshine and Clay", Nigerian-born writer Sarah Ladipo Manyika gathers significant voices from the African diaspora for engaging discussions on race, culture, and society. Bernardine Evaristo introduces the book with a note... Read More

Ahmed Taibaoui’s literary novel "The Disappearance of Mr. Nobody" is about the crime and poverty-ridden underside of Algeria. The novel is split into two parts. Its first half follows an unnamed, impoverished, reclusive man, Mr.... Read More

In Mimi Herman’s lush historical novel "The Kudzu Queen", a clever Southern teenager’s sense of justice inspires her to expose the truth about a magnetic newcomer. Mattie is fifteen and feeling eager for change when she and the rest... Read More

Anastasia C. Curwood’s vibrant biography of Shirley Chisholm reveals a tenacious congresswoman and presidential candidate. Curwood writes that Chisholm, the daughter of Caribbean immigrants and a Democratic party trailblazer, possessed... Read More

A self-deprecating, lovable angel leads Anni Sezate’s atypical coming-of-age novel, "I Fail at the Afterlife". David does not mind being dead. While he misses his family, he watches over them as a guardian angel. He spends the rest of... Read More

The Chinese diaspora meets culinary ingenuity in "Have You Eaten Yet?", Cheuk Kwan’s robust food travelogue and social history of Chinese restaurants. Kwan, whose documentary Chinese Restaurants spanned five continents, revisits the... Read More