Mythical beings plot long-awaited revenge against each other in Shauna Lawless’s atmospheric fantasy novel "Daughter of the Otherworld". The mythical Tuatha Dé Danann and their descendants have waited over one hundred years for their... Read More

A man grapples with the lingering effects of his late father’s homophobia in Ravi Teixeira’s graphic novel "Heaven, West Virginia". After his father’s death, Lamont arrives in the Appalachian town of Heaven to stay with his aunt,... Read More

Walter Marsh’s true crime caper "The Butterfly Thief" pieces together several mid-century museum thefts that shook Australia’s leading natural history institutions. In January of 1947, curators at Melbourne’s National Museum of... Read More

Ana Paula Pacheco’s "Pandora" is a startling, bold allegorical novella about pandemic-era hazards to women. COVID-19 upends literature professor Ana’s life. Her classes and her friendship with Alice, with whom she plans a pornography... Read More

Leah Altman’s bold memoir-in-essays is about reclaiming her Native American identity after a transracial adoption and traumatic upbringing. Following the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, the book reports, up to 35% of Native American... Read More

A percipient girl narrates her tumultuous life experiences in "Carnaval Fever", Yuliana Ortiz Ruano’s lyrical, pulsing novel. In the 1990s, in Ecuador’s Afro-Ecuadorian neighborhood of Esmeraldas, Ainhoa lives at her grandmother’s... Read More

About strengthening the US’s social foundations and expanding opportunities for innovation and growth, "Strong Floor, No Ceiling" is an ambitious and enthusiastic centrist political text. Oliver B. Libby’s centrist political... Read More

Jewel tone, whimsical illustrations evocative of children’s classics vivify this lovely, surreal introduction to the ballet. In it, two children slip through a hedge to witness bunny rabbits pirouetting and pliéing their ways across... Read More