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A biography of both the author and the chemical photobooth itself, exploring the machines’ role in Fitzgerald’s personal life and in her artwork, this comic introduces the reader to the world of photobooth fanatics.

In rural Ireland, a child’s summer with relatives becomes a story of care, loss, and quiet revelations. Keegan’s elegant, restrained writing delivers enormous impact. Perfect for readers who love emotionally rich, beautifully written fiction.

This book is advertised as a crime novel. Although there is a horrible crime and the culprit is slowly revealed, it is much more about how that crime affected an entire community, how people dealt with it immediately and then over decades as those people grow and change.

Short biographies of everyone from Sojourner Truth to Parliament Funkadelic illuminate the the craziness of the American Black experience. Organized into archetype sections such as “The Outlaw” and “The Spiritualist” this darkly humorous guide offers insight and hard truth.

Is someone still your family if you never knew they existed? This beautifully written and propulsive novel examines the complex relationship between two sisters connected by their bigamist father as they grow up in 1980s Atlanta.

Set in 1970, a young Ojibwe woman helps the town sheriff identify who murdered a Native American farmhand. Uses spare prose to create well-developed characters and to explore the coming of age of a young Native American woman. For readers who liked ‘Bluebird, Bluebird.’

A visceral horror story about the rise of fascism, for fans for Shirley Jackson and Clive Barker.

When Nick Wong goes home for Thanksgiving, he discovers his parents have set up blind dates for him and his siblings! If a blind date at Thanksgiving isn’t awkward enough, his brother’s been matched with the girl Nick can’t get out of his head.

A college freshman in 1983, Kim Hyun Sook learns all art is political, even her traditional dance group and Shakespeare. After joining a book club that reads books banned by the repressive South Korean government, she starts to fight back. A gripping true story!

This is the palace-intrigue, Maya-Aztec revenge fantasy that I didn’t know I needed. Beautifully human characters, and transporting descriptions of Tenochtitlan. If you enjoy Spanish literature, check it out for the allusions to Borges and Calderón de la Barca.