Assessing and critiquing various aspects of the American health-care system, "Make America Healthy Again" is a piquing medical treatise. Part exposé, part social science treatise, surgeon Charles Antinori’s provocative book "Make... Read More

Dragons stir at the turn of the century in Joann Sfar’s entertaining, absurdist graphic novel "The Dragons of Paris", which builds on a cheeky alternate history of the City of Lights. The centuries-long war between humans and dragons... Read More

About understanding mental health and the ever-growing adolescent brain, Therese Huston’s "Best Brain Ever" is an empowering and practical self-help book for confronting everyday stressors. A whimsical brain character guides this text,... Read More

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