"Bobby and Boo" is straightforward, educational, and fun, with engaging characters who learn to count in Chinese alongside their audience. In Kathy de Bruin’s Bobby and Boo Learn to Count in Chinese Too, a boy and his cat go about... Read More

A carefully drawn, interconnected cast of special agents and hired killers make "Sanction" a veritable chess game of intrigue. "Sanction" by William Hunter is a brisk international thriller set in a world where everyone’s on the run.... Read More

This alternate world—sharpening the positive, the grotesque, and the ridiculous—can be both wonderful and fascinating. Lisa Pell’s science fiction novel "Dystortions: Purple Haze" has an intriguing premise that combines an eerily... Read More