Guynn’s collection would be ideal for cultivating a love and appreciation of nature, wildlife, and conservation in elementary and middle-grade students. A curious young girl and a wise old tortoise forge an extraordinary friendship... Read More

The raw honesty in these perfectly timed essays puts a human face on a hugely stigmatized social issue. “Sex is never just about sex,” states writer Sue William Silverman in the foreword to Making Out Like a Virgin: Sex, Desire &... Read More

This book is a must-read for evangelical Christian women working to reconcile their outside work with traditional church teachings. Even in the twenty-first century, the decision to work outside the home can give rise to all kinds of... Read More

This is an engaging and sympathetic tale of families and cultures, and the choices that shape them. Carl Nordgren’s "Worlds Between" is the second in the River of Lakes series, which began with The 53rd Parallel. With dual settings in... Read More

With a conversational voice and hard-won optimism, a cancer survivor shares her spirited story. In Not All Bad Comes to Harm You: Observations of a Cancer Survivor, Janice Mock reflects on the silver linings of having a life-threatening... Read More

Dislocation, family strife, and the desire to escape the familiar are the driving forces in these stories mostly set in an arid landscape. In this prize-winning collection of stories, Sean Bernard explores themes of dislocation and... Read More

Sweetly touching, yet sometimes shocking, this memoir provides a unique view of a child’s daily life in 1950s Singapore. Lee Ali’s Growing Up with Ignorance: Memoirs of a Singaporean Baby Boomer is a simply written, powerful tale of... Read More

The author pulls from his own cadre of experience over two decades of story crafting to offer practical advice. There is nothing more frightening to a stalled writer than a blinking cursor on a blank page. In Playing with Stories: Story... Read More