The engaging spiritual and metaphysical guidebook "Expanded Awareness" maps out human consciousness in broad, involving terms. Health psychologist Sophie Guellati-Salcedo’s spiritual guidebook "Expanded Awareness" unites scientific... Read More

Poignant and ethereal, the fantasy novel "Mancala Moon" follows a man’s quest for intergenerational understanding in the mysterious woods. With hints of magical realism, Asa Bowers’s fantasy novel "Mancala Moon" follows a young man... Read More

Following a consequential, cross-realm quest, Escala’s Wish is a resonant fantasy novel that celebrates group bonds and self-sacrifice. In David James’s musing fantasy novel Escala’s Wish, a once reckless princess seeks redemption... Read More

In the musing speculative novel "Coherence", an AI program that was started with noble intentions goes awry. In Aaron Parsons’s thought-provoking science fiction novel "Coherence", a self-directed AI poses a credible world threat. In... Read More

Dragons stir at the turn of the century in Joann Sfar’s entertaining, absurdist graphic novel "The Dragons of Paris", which builds on a cheeky alternate history of the City of Lights. The centuries-long war between humans and dragons... Read More

In "Portrait of an Island on Fire", essayist Ariel Saramandi writes about how race, gender, culture, and environmental change drive life in Mauritius, wrestling with the ongoing impact of the country’s past. With righteous anger and... Read More

Vladimir Putin’s grip on Russia’s wealth is examined in the fascinating graphic novel Putin’s Fortune. In 1990, the book shows, Russia’s wealth became concentrated in the hands of a few men, made fewer through a number of... Read More

A teenager with superpowers battles environmental terrorism in Rodney Barnes’s exciting graphic novel "Quincredible". Quin, who has the power of invulnerability, investigates a water crisis in New Orleans because of toxic pollutants.... Read More