Following in the footsteps of her Cool Japan Guide, Abby Denson presents the "Cool Tokyo Guide", a graphic novel tour of standard and off-beat highlights of the city. There aren’t many graphic novel guidebooks around, but that may... Read More

This is a romance, but it’s a romance about solitude and healing and making a home. It’s perfect timing when Arizona-born Molly Bannister learns that she’s inheriting Wildwood, a farm in Juniper, Alberta, the land of the nine-month... Read More

Flor Edwards’s "Apocalypse Child" is an engrossing account of growing up within the strangely insular Children of God cult. Followers of the cult, founded in the late 1960s by David Berg, accepted his twisted interpretation of... Read More

Pearls on a Branch: Tales from the Arab World Told by Women is a collection of thirty stories curated by Najla Khoury, who spent years compiling, polishing, and editing these primarily oral works. Retold from generation to generation,... Read More

Far to the north where winter chases the sun away and the days are dark and drab, Seb and his friend Walrus conspire to bring light and warmth to their snowy coastal town. Beautifully depicted scenes full of murky shadow and softly... Read More

"Wizard for Hire"’s irresistible pages celebrate the irrepressible magic of being authentic and unique. Incidental misfits and intrepid survivors gather for a singularly important quest in Obert Skye’s "Wizard for Hire", a... Read More

Caterpillars Can’t Swim is an encouraging story about what’s possible if teens choose to accept the people around them. The presumably small thinking within a small riverside town may have disastrous consequences in Liane Shaw’s... Read More