Infused with family stories and historical tidbits about Southern cuisine, Chef Ron Hsu’s bountiful, celebratory, and edifying cookbook "Down South + East" marries flavors from across the world in its irresistible dishes. A La... Read More

In this exhilarating picture book about environmental appreciation, a girl goes out exploring each day. She jars the treasures she finds on her walks, bringing them home for her own nature-based cabinet of curiosities. An encounter with... Read More

A girl explores a strange world of magic in K. B. Spangler and Alexandra Presser’s fantastical graphic novel "SideQuested". Charlie trains to be a librarian. Her plans are upset when she learns that her caretakers of eighteen years are... Read More

Both a healer’s guide to food and a reinterpretation of what makes a tasty meal, Lisanna Wallance’s tantalizing gluten-free cookbook "Plant-Based Magic" celebrates fresh food’s connection to personal wellness. An encyclopedic... Read More

In Josh Bell’s short story collection The Gods in Small Doses, vibrant mythical and mundane characters face uncanny, darkly comic circumstances. These eccentric, poignant stories oscillate between moods, settings, and genres. They... Read More

Monika Fagerholm’s hard-hitting experimental novel is about the aftereffects of gang rape. During a spring break party, Nathan and three other teenage boys restrained their classmate, Sascha, in the basement and raped her. A decade... Read More

In J. M. Sidorova’s propulsive fantasy novel "The Witch of Prague", a girl unravels political scandals amid discoveries of her own mystical abilities. In the late 1960s in Prague, Alica is on the cusp of adulthood. Craving independence... Read More

Existing friendships are revitalized, and new ones flourish, in Melody Carlson’s cheerful Christian novel "All Booked Up", about women who share a Victorian home. Riva, an isolated widow in her sixties, is a bibliophile who is... Read More