The human and spirit worlds exist in close proximity in Signos: A Fiction Anthology of Filipino Supernatural, with stories written in English as well as translated from several languages of the Philippines. Noting the suppression of... Read More

A detective in Norway investigates a murder case in Sharon White’s atmospheric novel "If the Owl Calls". In 1979, Hans, an Oslo detective, grieves his wife’s recent death. He is assigned a case in the remote north, home of the... Read More

A girl encounters an expanding empire in Evan Dahm’s epic graphic novel "Vattu". Vattu is a rare child in her nomadic tribe, known by outsiders as the Fluters. When representatives of a neighboring empire visit, they present the... Read More

An admirable police chief does his best to defend vulnerable migrants in the timely mystery novel "The Nameless Dead". On a Greek island, a police inspector works to solve the murders of Syrian women at a refugee camp in Leta Serafim’s... Read More

Shira Gorshman’s piquant historical novel Hannah’s Sheep and Cattle nestles an abiding love story amid the interwar upheavals of Soviet Russia. In 1930, on a Jewish commune on the wide Crimean steppe, Hanah is twenty-three, the... Read More

A grumpy man benefits from a gentle friendship in the moving picture book "Mr. Foulweather Yells at the Moon". A curmudgeon makes a new friend in Stephen G. Bowling’s uplifting picture book "Mr. Foulweather Yells at the Moon", which is... Read More

Two musicians form an immeasurable bond that sees them through wartime preparations in the atmospheric historical novel "Cover for Me". Steven Schindler’s nostalgia-piquing historical novel "Cover for Me" is about an unusual plot to... Read More

Nineteenth-century gender restrictions are portrayed with focused eloquence in the startling historical novel "Silent Cauldron". In E. B. Moore’s disquieting historical novel "Silent Cauldron", a Quaker girl disguises herself as a boy... Read More