The Catholic Church gets so much bad press these days that this epistolary biography of Cardinal Mindszenty, a Hungarian priest who dedicated his life to advocating for religious freedom behind the Iron Curtain, will come as a welcome... Read More

Memoirs dealing with immigration and the prevailing belief that people can better their lives and the lives of their children are often sentimental and hold the sympathy of the reader with vivid, emotional descriptions of events.... Read More

“I was raised in two different worlds,” Masako Kimura Streling writes in "I Thought the Sun Was God", “one held my paternal grandfather as a remnant of the Satsuma Samurai and his son, while the other held my father and my mother,... Read More

Former lawyer Ward Jones has made good use of his private and corporate legal expertise in his fifth novel, "The Way Up". Against a backdrop of courtrooms, lawsuits, and the legal maneuvering needed to create an oil and gas exploration... Read More

It’s a lesson in playground manners for Fink, a mischievous mink who causes trouble by cutting in line for the swing and telling a lie when the teacher scolds him for his naughtiness. Later, Fink hops off the seesaw, which causes the... Read More

It’s 1970, and eleven-year-old Jack Bucher just can’t win. All he really cares about in life is baseball, and his family’s upcoming move to Mexico is going to mess up his plans. To make matters worse, his best friend is killed in a... Read More

A wordless narrative of epic proportions follows a family’s survival as rising tides threaten and then consume their home. Stunning, full-bleed illustrations convey all we need to know about their ordeal: that they make it through the... Read More

An especially lyrical departure from the Dane Hans Christian Andersen’s story told by an East Indian writer and based on the extraordinary artwork of a late Iranian illustrator. Only in fairy tales are we assured of happy endings borne... Read More