An African teenager comes of age between countries and cultures in Ebele Chizea’s engrossing young adult novel "Aquarian Dawn". In the 1960s, Ada moves to Pennsylvania from Nabuka, a country riven by civil war and genocide. Her mother,... Read More

Love is the driving force in Alina Adams’s intimate novel "My Mother’s Secret", set in Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union. A firm believer in communism, Regina dreams of building a socialist Jewish society in Birobidzhan, the designated... Read More

Chinese-ish is a vibrant collaborative cookbook created by Asian Australian friends Rosheen Kaul and Joanna Hu. The pair share a passion for food and the experience of growing up in millennial Melbourne as the children of immigrants.... Read More

Amir A. Rashidian’s "Cracking the Stress Secret" uses evidence-based medicine to demonstrate how one’s diet, exercise, and lifestyle choices work alongside stress management to improve their overall health. When he was nine,... Read More

A classic gay coming-of-age story is adapted to graphic novel format in Edmund White’s A Boy’s Own Story: The Graphic Novel. Based on an autobiographical 1982 novel, this book spans several decades to tell the tale of Eddie, who, as... Read More

A young woman tries to come to terms with grief in Tanya Turton’s poignant novel "Jade Is a Twisted Green". After the death of her twin sister Roze at age seventeen, Jade fell into a deep, lingering depression. Because she is unable to... Read More

"Together We Decide" is an insightful social science book that balances practical and ideological advice for successful group decision-making. Arguing that achieving consensus, while difficult, is the most effective method of making... Read More

A woman with a traumatic past comes under her neighbors’ suspicion when a child is kidnapped in the surprise-filled mystery novel "The Worm Man". In Mary Frances Hill’s thrilling small-town mystery novel "The Worm Man", a girl’s... Read More