With scathing insights into America’s commodification of tragedies, Ben Wickey’s "More Weight" is a humane, absorbing graphic novel. With dual storylines set in the 1860s and 1690s, this sobering text vivifies the Salem witch trials... Read More

Scientists’ good intentions go awry when an AI goes rogue in the thrilling novel "Daemon Protocol". JL Spears’s exciting science fiction novel "Daemon Protocol" is about the consequences of reliance on artificial intelligence.... Read More

The end is a new beginning for a young man named in defiance of death in Alain Mabanckou’s otherworldly novel "Dealing with the Dead". On Independence Day for the Republic of the Congo, Liwa, a hotel cook, gets dressed up, receives his... Read More

Characterized by rich worldbuilding and a tortured hero, "Son of the Borderlands" is an excitement-generating fantasy series opener. In Joseph Sterk’s fantasy novel "Son of the Borderlands", a warrior with a weighted destiny grapples... Read More

Energetic and jazzy, the picture book "These ABCs Belong to Me!" subverts negativity with its curious, joyous reclamation of common terms. Alicia McKenzie’s diverse picture book "These ABCs Belong to Me!" brings a new, joyous... Read More

Eva is nervous about Hanukkah this year, in a new town with her friends so far away. But when the neighbor, Charlie, sees the light from the hanukkiah in her window, it prompts him to reach out. Eva is overjoyed to share holiday treats... Read More

In David Ewald’s riveting science fiction caper "The Thief of That", an anxiety-ridden aspiring novelist is given the chance to travel backward in time. At thirty, underemployed Ravel worries that the opportunities he deserved all... Read More

Minty, born enslaved in 1822, is impossible to contain: “she / is soil, seed, root, tree, / stem, flower, air, breeze, / stream, river, waves, sea, / Sun, moon, a planetary jubilee.” As a child, she has visions of the Promised Land;... Read More