A woman maps cultural expectations and desires onto her ailing body in Egana Djabbarova’s singular novel My Dreadful Body. Tackling one body part per chapter, this bildungsroman follows Egana, an Azerbaijani daughter, as she learns... Read More

Moira Welsh’s compelling social survey addresses the financial, emotional, and social disconnects that many women encounter during their senior years. An investigative journalist, Welsh’s acclaimed Third Act project for the Toronto... Read More

Photographer Virginia Mcgee Richards documentary text "The Inner Passage" shows how history altered a region and its people over centuries. The Inner Passage, introduced here as a series of canals and rivers along the coastline of South... Read More

In Keila Vall de la Ville’s incisive novel "Minerva", an aspiring Venezuelan dancer contemplates her artistic future and unusual family background. Minerva is raised in an unconventional manner: by her mother and two fathers in... Read More

The infinite worlds of a child’s imagination are brought to life in vivid colors and fantastical images in this picture book about the possibilities of playtime. Here, a simple question—“Do you want to play at my house?”—opens... Read More

A vampire invades Woodstock in the entertaining graphic novel "Woodstake". In 1927 in upstate New York, a vampire awakens. Van Helsing helps to put the soul of a bitten woman to rest, but the vampire escapes, hibernating for years until... Read More

An entrepreneur navigates Taiwan’s government, gangs, and corporate culture in Ed Lin’s mystery novel The Dead Can’t Make a Living. Entrepreneurial, sarcastic, and unlucky Jing-nan runs his late parents’ food stall in Taipei’s... Read More

A heartrending tale that approaches the topic of child refugees with a deft, subtle hand, this picture book dreams of a better world. “After the bombs, there was nothing,” begins the story, following April as she gathers a backpack... Read More