Odysseus: On the River of Time is a substantial and rewarding tale about ancient Greece’s best known hero. Carl Hare’s Odysseus: On the River of Time is a gripping, epic sequel to The Iliad and The Odyssey. Odysseus, elsewhere... Read More
Celebrating the beauty and magic of Ireland, from its castles, forests, and rainy rivers to modern bus stops and seasides, "Once Upon a Place" is a thrilling compilation of short stories and poems from Eoin Colfer that boasts over a... Read More
No, we won’t find much comfort here, or words pretty for pretty’s sake. Sheila McMullin scores the flesh of her observations and sears them with ponderous, mostly unanswerable questions about pain and anger, consequences, finality.... Read More
Elana K. Arnold’s "What Girls Are Made Of" is realistic fiction at its most touching, following one young girl’s struggles to make her way through the world using a broken frame. Her attempts to free herself from that limitation, and... Read More
Boasting a multitude of fun facts, interactive games, and activities, Maggie Li’s The Amazing Dinosaur Detectives: Facts, Myths and Quirks of the Dinosaur World dives into the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods with humor and... Read More
This patriotic adventure paints a picture of dedicated CIA agents without overlooking the complex moral situations they find themselves in. Priyesh Patel’s "Moralis Aleam" is a political thriller in the classic Clancy style, filled... Read More
Fishere’s novel is a gripping portrait of the tenuous spaces that marginalized populations are made to occupy. Ezzedine C. Fishere’s Embrace on the Brooklyn Bridge traverses the memories and inner struggles of a group of Egyptian... Read More
Sleek, supple, and luxurious, Lola’s wool was envied and admired by all the sheep on the farm—until one day it wasn’t. Using soft edges, watercolors, and simple, warm words, Gemma Merino shares the unlikely story of a sheep who... Read More