Giving life to the incidental, the forgotten, and the ignored, "The Shadow of the Mammoth", Fabio Morábito’s collection of eighteen distinctive, heartbreaking, and quirky tales, skews the intricacies of existence and compassion... Read More

Obsessive sleuths crack criminal cases in the delightful and subversive queer crime anthology "Crime Ink: Iconic", a sharp, often satirical collection centered on the intersection of queerness and mystery. In “The Prophet Daniel,” a... Read More

Inspired by Tudor history, Autumn Krause’s "Grave Flowers" is an intriguing fantasy novel full of conflict and love. Madalina is princess of Radix, a staid kingdom known for its grave flowers, deadly magical plants. Her twin sister,... Read More

Featuring long horizons, unearthly colors, scrubby vegetation, and striking geology, Chris Carlson’s stunning photography collection honors the spectacular, otherworldly beauty of Great Salt Lake, showing the impact of human water... Read More

Julie Marie Wade’s shrewd and winsome memoir Other People’s Mothers is about the gendered conventions of her 1980s and 1990s Seattle girlhood. Nine chapters, covering Wade’s life from the ages of six to thirteen, center... Read More

A classroom call to help those in need piques a child’s excitement and leads to self-realizations in the bittersweet picture book "One Can". After helping their class hit its goal of collecting one hundred cans for those with food... Read More

About gardening, nature, medical trauma, and motherhood, the poems of Laura Da’s "Severalty" reflect on what happens when people are severed from their heritage and identity. Severalty, a synonym for separateness, appears to mark... Read More

A fourth grader adopts a creative way to remedy the gulf between how she feels inside and how others perceive her in Julie A. Swanson’s insightful novel "North of Tomboy". No one in Jess’s Northern Michigan rural family, church, or... Read More