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The ethics of juvenile life-without-parole sentences, a signing at Dearborn’s Green Brain Comics for the Spanish language edition of the graphic novel Frizzy, and a new biography about the life and influence of Michigan’s own, Madonna.

The latest on the United Auto Workers contract negotiations as the strike continues into week two. A Lansing-set novel explores the crossroads of technology, female empowerment and murder. A Flint community book club's selection and a rabbi's advice on caring for the elderly.

West Michigan's bad air day, Annisa Gray's new novel, and Lansing's potential as a destination town.

Today, we broke down how DTE cut its operations budget just months before the ice storm. Then, we heard about why Michigan may soon become a haven for those fleeing the effects of climate change elsewhere. Plus, why EVs pay less in road use taxes, and we ended by revisiting our conversation with Mattawan-based debut novelist Maria Dong

Southwest Michigan writer Maria Dong’s debut novel “Liar, Dreamer, Thief,” is a page-turning fantastical thriller. Her book is listed as a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Goodreads and Overdrive.

Detroit writer Kelsey Ronan’s debut novel poses rich questions about how we carry the collective histories of the places and people we come from.

Octavia Butler's 1993 book, Parable of the Sower draws readers into a 2024 America ripped apart by poverty, corporate greed, and climate calamity — as a teenage girl leads a rag-tag group of followers through a scary world. Two of Butler's most famous fans, Toshi Reagon and her mother Bernice Johnson Reagon have adapted Parable of the Sower into an opera, premiering in Michigan this weekend.

Today, we return to one of the most anticipated YA reads of the year. Firekeeper’s Daughter by Michigan’s Angeline Boulley is at once a a ripping thriller and a complex story of a girl finding her way in two cultures. Since our conversation in February, it hit the New York Times best-seller list.

An auto accident leaves a little girl with a shattered leg. She spends the next year bedridden in a body cast, wondering if she'll ever be back in school…

It’s been about ten years since Peter Ho Davies came out with his first novel, The Welsh Girl. It was long-listed for the 2007 Man Booker Prize. Now,…