A teenager who’s skilled at fighting is invited to participate in a battle contest in the graphic novel "The God of High School". Mori Jin, a seventeen-year-old trained in Taekwondo by his grandfather, has never been defeated in almost... Read More

Amy Yee’s book "Far from the Rooftop of the World" features the narratives of everyday Tibetans in exile. Gathered in India from 2008 to 2010 and in Australia, Belgium, and the United States from 2015 to 2021, the book contains the... Read More

After being forced to flee his home in Afghanistan with his family, a boy makes a wish for the fighting to stop so they can return; his grandmother helps him understand that home is not a place but the people you hold in your heart. The... Read More

Written for those who have been trapped by fear-based high-control religions, the self-help book "When Religion Hurts You" points the way to freedom. Laura E. Anderson survived long-term religious abuse herself. Here, she indicts... Read More

Botanist Juliet C. Stromberg’s engaging, effervescent memoir covers the ecological restoration of an abandoned four-acre farm in south Phoenix. In a twenty-year effort, Stromberg and her partner Matt created a verdant oasis on what had... Read More

A lone human in a synthetic world is undone by unanswerable questions in the unsettling dystopian novel Conquergood & the Center of the Intelligible Mystery of Being. In CG Fewston’s dystopian novel Conquergood & the Center of... Read More

A top-tier work of prison literature, Ahmed Naji’s poetic memoir "Rotten Evidence" follows his 2016 sentencing by an Egyptian court for “moral turpitude” over a novel excerpt. Beginning with Naji’s entry into prison, the book... Read More

A layered scholar’s memoir, Susan J. Godwin’s "Rain Dodging" details and personalizes her research into the late seventeenth-century Stuart court of Queen Mary of Modena, consort to James II. While studying at Oxford, Godwin became... Read More