Something dark is waking up in Shadow Grove, and one teenager has the determination—and the family legacy—that’s necessary to set things right. Monique Snyman’s sinister and satisfying fantasy tale "The Night Weaver" is an... Read More

José M. Hernández’s From Farmworker to Astronaut layers two narratives: first, the saga of Hernández’s trip to the International Space Station, and second, his childhood, early adulthood, and work to qualify to be an astronaut.... Read More

Based on African history, delivered in dramatic style, and intended for middle and high school audiences, "King Shaka" tells the fascinating story of a monarch’s life, diplomatic efforts, military campaigns, and death. From 1816 to... Read More

Bob Eckstein selects cartoons whose themes are critics and criticism in the collection Everyone’s a Critic. Eckstein, whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and MAD Magazine, has picked a perfect topic: in the... Read More

On a ten-day retreat at a Benedictine monastery, Will Johnson explored breathing as a way to sense God. The result is "Breathing as Spiritual Practice", a personal wellness guide that takes an ecumenical view and encourages meditative... Read More

Rabbi Michael Lerner’s "Revolutionary Love" is not so much a book as a manifesto, the public declaration of a political philosophy determined to save people from self-destruction. Encompassing loving criticism of the cultural concerns... Read More

The private, intimate stories of Ashley Wurzbacher’s Happy Like This navigate deciphering oneself with impeccable logic. Unfastening and opening the shell around each narrator’s heart, answers hang over the collection, both banner... Read More

Even when nations and states share geographical boundaries, they are often very different places, writes Mary Soderstrom in "Frenemy Nations". Indeed, the book argues that boundaries are often created in an arbitrary way that ignores... Read More