Schalansky’s inspired latest (after Atlas of Remote Islands) melds history, memoir, and fiction into something new and extraordinary: a museum of the extinct, the missing, and the forgotten. Chronicled in 12 short pieces, each based on a “lost” object—among them an early-20th-century film, ... Continue reading »

CWA Diamond Dagger Award winner Cleeves’s superb ninth novel featuring astute, irascible Det. Insp. Vera Stanhope (after 2017’s The Seagull) finds Vera driving home late one night through rural Northumberland in a blizzard when she comes upon a car that’s slewed off the road. The driver is ... Continue reading »

Schwab (the Shades of Magic series) crafts the tale of one woman’s desperate drive to be remembered into a triumphant exploration of love and loss. The story hops across time as it follows the life of Adeline “Addie” LaRue from the French country side in the early 1700s to New York City in 2014. As ... Continue reading »

Hazen (Unbreak Me) sets this extraordinary tale of unexpected love in California’s Mojave Desert. Biologist Mari Tucker lives in her truck following a messy divorce from her physically abusive ex and finds work as a biological monitor on construction sites, protecting the desert’s endangere... Continue reading »

Scioli (the Gødland series) injects oomph into the already-energetic life story of the “King of Comics” through sweeping narrative and Scioli’s trademark detailed page layouts. Told from the point of view of Kirby (1917–1994), the biography also acts as a history of the comics industry, from early s... Continue reading »

The stunning third collection from Choi (Hardly War) is a feat of docupoetics, collage, and translation that bears witness to unheard voices from the Korean War and the Park Chung Hee military dictatorship. Choi braids personal and political histories, including her family’s flight from Sou... Continue reading »

Fuller (Hearts of Middlefield) delights with four joyful Amish stories of love and faith. In “Young Love,” 20-something Fern has rheumatoid arthritis and worries her illness will one day make marriage and life as an Amish wife difficult. When her longtime crush, Dan, becomes single, Fern ov... Continue reading »

Veteran broadcast journalist Hinojosa discusses immigration in a defiant memoir that probes family lore, public policy, and mainstream media bias. In 1962, when Hinojosa was a baby, her family emigrated from Mexico to Chicago when her father was invited to join the faculty at the University of Chica... Continue reading »

Artist Irish (Pyrography Style Handbook) offers an attractively designed and inviting introductory volume for anyone interested in weaving baskets. She starts by explaining that rib baskets are made using a rim hoop that creates the basket’s circular opening, or by the hoop that forms the s... Continue reading »

In this eye-opening debut, Jackson, executive director of immigrant hospitality organization Casa de Paz, explores the second commandment—“Love your neighbor as yourself”—as it relates to the fraught topic of immigration. With only a firm conviction that love makes a difference and her 600-square-fo... Continue reading »

After the narrator’s father moves out, the week passes slowly as the boy considers experiences as they relate to his dad (“My mom and I ate tuna-fish sandwiches for dinner. My dad hates tuna fish”). On Friday, he packs some clothes (and Wendell, his stuffed hedgehog) and travels with his father, 48 ... Continue reading »