This charming picture book for all ages celebrates life on four wheels in lovely watercolor style. A parade of campers is introduced, each with its own personality and attributes: Bob the Boler cruises down an autumnal road, cutting a... Read More

A Latina girl sleuths on Capitol Hill to help her congressman friend in Kitty Felde’s entertaining, civic-minded mystery novel "Snake in the Grass". Fina is a California congressman’s daughter who is used to meeting her father’s... Read More

Black students and their white teacher brave persecution in Wilfred Lupano’s moving, enlightening graphic novel "Surrounded". In 1832, Prudence Crandall’s decision to admit Black girls to her Connecticut boarding school draws the ire... Read More

Celebrating the seductive lines of classic designs, Dominic Bradbury’s coffee table book "Mid-Century Modern Designers" is sure to please aesthetes and home decorators alike. Their palettes “colorful and joyful” and their designs... Read More

Nathalie Cooke’s culinary history text "Tastes and Traditions" explores menus as strategic documents—much more than simple bills of fare. Menus, it says, do not always present their wares in a straightforward way; some go off the... Read More

This cosmic counting book is an inviting introduction to the solar system. Covering the sun and each of the nine planets—Pluto included—the book anthropomorphizes various elements of outer space as it walks children through numbers... Read More

In J. T. Falco’s atmospheric thriller "Blood on the Vine", a seamy side of idyllic Napa Valley is unearthed. Lana, a seasoned FBI agent in the San Francisco field office, navigates uncertain motives and personal demons as she... Read More

A decadent horror story (for the oyster) narrated with awe and gusto, Andreas Ammer’s "Portrait of an Oyster" is must for all who find their joy on the half shell. Once “a cheap form of nourishment” twice consumed to near... Read More