Complex identities and social pressures faced by Korean immigrants are examined in thrilling ways in Jinwoo Park’s existential thriller "Oxford Soju Club". Doha is a North Korean spy whose mysterious death yields a cryptic puzzle piece... Read More

Two high school students take tentative steps toward a relationship in Moosopp’s romantic graphic novel "Daybreak". Marcus and Cog are classmates from different friend groups who pass each other in the halls and around campus. Marcus... Read More

A woman and her sisters navigate wartime life with a serial killer on the loose in the gripping graphic novel "The Brownout Murders". In Melbourne, Australia, the threat of Japanese invasion looms and a brownout is ordered to dim the... Read More

Laws regarding classroom science curricula are examined in Alexander and Harold Gouzoules’s deft history book The Hundred Years’ Trial. The Gouzouleses’ scientific and legal expertise informs this fascinating history, which moves... Read More

"Little Red Barns" blends investigative journalism with memoir to unveil the cruelty and corruption of American factory farms. The book aims to dismantle the myth of the idyllic American family farm and confront the grim realities of... Read More

“The Texas grid is a land flowing with milk, honey, and countless ways to die” in Lyndsey Lewellen’s exciting novel "The Crier Stone", in which a girl works to save the corrupt city she escaped. In a post-apocalyptic wasteland,... Read More

Patterns and textures layer in the jewel-toned collage illustrations of this exquisite picture book that honors the bond between mother and child. A girl muses on all the memories held in her mother’s scent: happy days, rosy cheeks,... Read More

Kathleen B. Casey’s cultural survey "The Things She Carried" examines purses, pocketbooks, and handbags not through a fashion lens, but as “fraught but vital object[s]” with fascinating histories. The book’s evocative case... Read More