In his new book "Faster", Neal Bascomb retraces the story of an underdog racing team. Made up of a driver banned from all the top European teams because of his Jewish heritage; an ambitious American heiress who wanted to make her mark in... Read More

Meet Sophie Kowalevski, a girl who loved numbers, math, and solving equations, in this inspiring children’s biography based on a real-life legend. Notes and calculations dance across the pages in fanciful patterns and ciphers, and... Read More

In Susan M. Gaines’s intricate and informative novel "Accidentals", a twenty-three-year-old, Gabriel, takes an unexpected voyage with his mother, Lili, back to her native Uruguay. To do this, Gabriel quits his well-paying yet... Read More

Rob Davis’s "The Book of Forks" is the brilliant and bizarre final volume of a graphic novel trilogy. Castro is writing "The Book of Forks", which he hopes will explain to the masses the strange origins and mechanics of his world.... Read More

Mark Kurlansky’s "Salmon" makes the species an ecological poster child and a microcosm of the environmental challenges we face. More than an environmental book about overfishing, the text includes a comprehensive natural and cultural... Read More

In Linda Sue Park’s insightful novel "Prairie Lotus", an Asian American girl and her father face prejudice in the 1880s Midwest. Fourteen-year-old Hanna wants to make a friend, earn her diploma, and make dresses for her father’s... Read More

A lonely, stubborn teenager struggles to adjust to life in America in Juliana Delgado Lopera’s gripping novel, "Fiebre Tropical". Francisca’s life is upended when her recently divorced mother drags her family from Colombia to... Read More

Look forward to gorging on wit, food history, and strong opinions in Jay Rayner’s Last Supper, an entertaining, bon mots-studded consideration of the feast that the British journalist threw for a lucky circle of loved ones following... Read More