No American education should be considered complete without a visceral understanding of plantation life for teenage Black girls in the slavery centuries before the Civil War, when molestation and sexual trauma were so routine that... Read More

A well-meaning aid worker navigates political and cultural tensions while on assignment in Africa in "Sketches from the Periphery", a thoughtful fish-out-of-water novel. An American contractor faces the aftermath of the war in Darfur in... Read More

A woman undertakes a plan to get revenge on a secret order of magic users in the graphic novel "The Order of the Circle". In 1952, Dorothy is a widow of sorts. Her husband John was framed for murder by corrupt mages and witches in the... Read More

A teenage girl encounters huge, mysterious aliens in the engrossing graphic novel "We Called Them Giants". Lori, who is used to being moved between foster families, feels hardened to the world. When she wakes to find that most of the... Read More

A story of a community’s hardiness, willpower, and perseverance, New Iceland and Beyond extols the successes of a generation of Canadian settlers. Robert C. A. Frederickson’s New Iceland and Beyond is a stirring history of an unsung... Read More