In Jordana Globerman’s ambitious graphic novel "Soul Machine", a girl tries to protect a family business that supplies souls. After the disappearance of their father, Chloe and Lacey continue the family trade, spinning souls from a... Read More

A forensic anthropologist and her partner travel abroad in search of the truth behind a boy’s brutal murder in the feverish dystopian novel "Not Long Ago Persons Found". A seven-year-old boy’s torso is found in a city’s river with... Read More

In Shokoofeh Azar’s intricate fabulistic novel "The Gowkaran Tree in the Middle of Our Kitchen", an Iranian girl comes of age in a time of war. When a gowkaran tree—likened to the Tree of Life, though no one seems certain about its... Read More

Quino’s wonderful comics collection "Mafalda" centers on a six-year-old girl, her family, and her friends. "Mafalda" ran in Argentina from 1964 to 1973 and was beloved. In addition to its heroine, it features Manolito, a shopkeeper’s... Read More

An interwoven father-daughter story, Mphuthumi Ntabeni’s ambitious novel "The Wanderers" is a philosophical examination of the legacy of South African apartheid. Although apartheid ended when Ruru, now a doctor, was still a child, she... Read More

Dennis E. Bolen’s insightful, beautiful coming-of-age novel "Amaranthine Chevrolet" is a hero’s journey filled with danger and yearning. In 1967 on a Saskatchewan farm, fifteen-year-old Robin responds to the death of his... Read More

Mary Noé’s keyhole true crime book The Man Who Shot J.P. Morgan is about false identities, radical politics, and the prewar tensions of the early twentieth-century US. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 16, 1906, Leone Krembs... Read More

An inventive, fabulistic novel, "North of Sunset" sets a dark scientific experiment against a background of glittering opulence. In Haley Ahern’s alluring futuristic novel "North of Sunset", a young man becomes involved with a tycoon... Read More