The Farmer's Wife and the MenoClucks by Barbara Elizabeth takes the touchy subject of menopause and explains it through her hens as they grow older and can no longer meet the demands of a rooster who rules the yard. He doesn't account for the fact...

The Boy Who Lost His Voice by Ellen van Schoten combines striking black-and-white illustrations and lovely storytelling to create an unforgettable book. In it, a twelve-year-old boy named Willem loses his voice, which sends him on a journey throughout his hometown of Delft in the...

Searching for Full: How GLP-1s Changed My Eating-Disordered Life by Paige Gordon is a memoir that traces many years of bulimia nervosa, beginning in childhood and tangled up with trauma, family strain, and years of treatments that never quite worked. The book opens with an...

In Shami Stovall’s The Last Rift Dragon, seventeen-year-old Richter Whitlock is training to become a Knight of the Silver Fog, one of the dragon riders who protect Bridgehaven, a city spread across 112 islands. Only three dragons remain in the known world, leaving the order...

Max Willi Fischer’s Working the Angles is set in 1937 Akron, Ohio, where eighteen-year-old Deet Jenkins leaves high school for a job at Consolidated, one of the city’s enormous rubber factories. He enters factory life as a battle over union representation spreads through Akron’s rubber...

Caroline’s Lighthouse by Erica Zaborac is about a young girl who suffers a serious injury while competing in a show jumping competition in which her horse, Beau, is killed. For a time, Caroline turns her back on the sport that she enjoyed with her mother....

The Reel Life of Zara Kegg by Brad Barkley is a coming-of-age love story. Father and daughter, Jack and Zara Kegg, relocate to Carolina Beach, North Carolina, following the death of the family matriarch, Tania Kegg. It is off-season, with much of the town boarded...

Christie Del Vesco’s A Road Trip with God is a bold memoir with a subtitle that summarizes it perfectly: 11,800 Miles from Hoping to Die to Daring to Live. She is fifty-five and shut-in, with a life that revolves around food, nature-watching, Netflix, an extra...

Directions in Paradox Comix by John F. Elliott presents stories, wisdom to live by, and humor. You can read it as a philosophical manifesto or therapy guide. Some readers will simply enjoy the illustrations, which are very symbolic. The author cleverly builds maxims into templates...

Cities are burning across the world, while their inhabitants die from a strange and terrifying madness that leaves nothing standing. No one knows where the sudden onset of insanity comes from. It’s like an unidentified virus creeping through the population. Emile and Ian are outliers...