The malaise of a small New England town in the 1960s is given an undercurrent of the infinite in Peter Selgin’s inspired novel A Boy’s Guide to Outer Space. Half is a junior high school student with a mentally ill stepbrother, a hat... Read More

From one author and twenty-one illustrators comes this collection of ten-word stories that are, at turns, humorous, touching, and fantastical. The variety of art styles is enchanting: each artist approaches their prompt in a different... Read More

In Anita Felicelli’s stunning short story collection "How We Know Our Time Travelers", technology and the supernatural are rival routes to understanding time, loss, and memory. These speculative stories are set in California in the... Read More

A college student and her friends navigate a complicated web of relationships in the graphic novel "How Could You", a fond, realistic view of early adulthood. Molly is depressed after a breakup email from Olene, who’s away in Europe... Read More

In Renée Schaeffer’s distinctive novel "Ageless", an immortal woman struggles through centuries of tremendous social, scientific, and political changes. Naissa is born into a loving family in 1850, but she loses them to shellfish... Read More

Rachel Howzell Hall’s fantasy novel "The Last One" is a tale of magical creatures, mysterious magics, budding romance, and self-discovery. In a forest in the realm of Vallendor, Kai wakes up injured and in the process of being robbed... Read More

Ladies, gentlemen, and children of all ages will delight in this biographical picture book about a circus strongwoman who bucked social expectations. Evoking vintage circus posters, the illustrations apply a strict palette of golden... Read More

Spanning literary criticism, social science, and the study of the fairy tale, Kimberly J. Lau’s "Specters of the Marvelous" foregrounds race in often whitewashed European fairy tales. Prior to cinema, fairy tales were collected,... Read More