The prime meridian, though not a “real thing,” rules the life of everyone on the planet; it’s the place at which the world’s longitude is set at zero degrees, giving humans the ability to standardize the measures of both... Read More

"My Jewish Year" is an invaluable text for understanding how contemporary people work to find personal meaning in inherited traditions. "My Jewish Year" is an amusing, intelligent, and often incandescent approach to modern religious... Read More

"Dragonwatch" is the first follow-up volume to Brandon Mull’s best-selling Fablehaven series. Siblings Kendra and Seth Sorenson live with their grandparents on a farm in Connecticut, but theirs is no ordinary pastoral life. Ever since... Read More

The subject matter in itself is daunting, even frightening, but MacGibbon’s courage and comedy make "Fierce, Funny, and Female" a winner. Being funny is a survival skill. Marti MacGibbon’s incredible memoir "Fierce, Funny, and... Read More

Ancestral voices come through clearly in this work that will engage students of period histories. In matter-of-fact prose, Diana Walstad’s Family History (1860–1950) of a Doctor’s Daughter follows the author’s ancestors as they... Read More

This is an engaging thriller focused on a manhunt, pedophilia, and the state of the modern Catholic Church. In "Justified", justice comes from the sharpened end of a crucifix—but could also put the world’s Catholics in danger. Louis... Read More