Dianna E. Anderson’s "Body Phobia" is a convincing personal and philosophical exposé of how a culture that fears bodily differences harms vulnerable people. Anderson, who is nonbinary, trans, and queer, grew up in an evangelical... Read More

The author makes the introductions in this tongue-in-cheek, wild ride of a picture book about remarkable children—some of them fantastical, others closer to reality than you think. Each child receives a detailed spread with multiple... Read More

A sharp and curious doctor in training is just the right tour guide through the labyrinthine murder mystery novel "Malignant Assumptions". Carrie Rubin’s series mystery novel "Malignant Assumptions" is an entertaining whodunit with an... Read More

"Community Capital" is a knowledgeable text that focuses on institutional financial challenges within marginalized communities. Clifford N. Rosenthal and Michael McCray’s "Community Capital" is a microhistory of race relations viewed... Read More

"Erased" is the fascinating graphic biography of Maximus Wyld, a multiracial actor from the early days of Hollywood whose name was later removed from film credits and forgotten. Maximus Ohanzee Wildhorse, known as Maximus Wyld, was an... Read More

A writer from New York mocks and satirizes himself and other Los Angeles residents in the midst of a forest fire in the satirical novel "In Extremis". In Matt Duggan’s incisive novel "In Extremis", a transplant writer from New York... Read More

"DIY Thrift Flip" is an encouraging, inspirational guide with instructions for turning thrift-store finds into more fashionable, fun, wearable clothes. Part of the enjoyment of thrifting is the hunt for a treasure, the book says. When... Read More

A man reconciles his father’s American culture with his mother’s Yanomami roots in the graphic memoir "Good." David Good has a dual lineage: his parents are an American-born anthropologist and a member of the Yanomami people of the... Read More