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The Asian disaporic experience in graphic novels. Here are some titles focusing on the experience of living in diaspora.

In the mood for a good family saga to sweep you away? These stories chronicle the intergenerational dynamics of complicated families buffeted through time by secrets and global events.

Writers from the continent of Africa are some of the most exciting new authors being read in the west. Here’s a tasting of a few new voices, along with a well-established one.

Speculative fiction imagines alternate realities, dystopian futures, fantastical possibilities, and much more. Discover new worlds to explore within these recently published works of speculative imagination.

How do we define a cult? How does it differ from a religion? What draws people to a cult? One thing all cults have in common is that the people in them do not consider themselves to be in a cult.

We’re heading into the darkest time of the year now, so let’s EMBRACE it. Curl up in your favorite chair, have a hot cup or a glass of wine handy, and read …

November is National Native American Heritage Month -- check out these new and noteworthy titles by Native American writers, spanning from works of memoir to poetry to fiction.

The “we” in these titles range from Native American comics to American political activists to African American farmers to Japanese American resistors to imprisonment to a startup that flopped.

The concept of home, as both a physical place as well as a state of mind, is explored in poetry and prose by these four women writers.

Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to read, the value of free and open access to information, and the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular…

These recent fiction titles explore travel both physical and metaphysical.

Looking for your next beach read? Here is a sampling of what our staff and Adult Summer Reading program participants have been enjoying this summer! For more summer reading suggestions, check out our Book Recommendations page.

What’s lit in “New Adult” lit? This diverse collection of titles explores the stories of characters in their 20s (or nearly there) who are on their way to discovering who they are as adults…

Commemorate Juneteenth by picking up one of these books of history or historical fiction. For more suggested reading, check out our Book Recommendations page.

It is once again the time of year where we celebrate our LGBTQIA selves and community in all its varied splendor. It this column we’ll see members grapple with pregnancy loss, growing up multi-racial and multi-religious, voracious sexual appetites, perfecting our physical body, and making meaning out of our daily lives.