For an Einstein-haired grandfather and a child in galoshes, a seaside storm represents an opening for play acting. Against a smudged landscape that’s enlivened by sweeps of color, the pair, armed with trowels and noise-making items,... Read More

Sally Howard examines the value and devaluation of unpaid housework in "The Home Stretch". Though more and more women are entering the work force, responsibility for domestic chores—cooking, cleaning, childcare, and other family... Read More

Grace Karskens’s engrossing history "People of the River" illuminates Australia’s distant past. The book opens in deep history, describing the topography and course of the Hawkesbury-Nepean River, a waterway that curves like a giant... Read More

Capturing the intensity of a search for missing children, "The Begonia Killer" interjects an element of romance into its propulsive mystery. Jeff Bond’s mystery novel "The Begonia Killer" combines an urgent search for missing children... Read More

History mutes women; it also depends on them. This paradox is at the heart of a "A Ghost in the Throat", an extraordinary literary memoir that finds life in buried spaces. In her childhood, Doireann Ní Ghríofa got in a tiff over her... Read More

Lyndsey Ellis’s thoughtful multigenerational novel "Bone Broth" is set during the days of the Ferguson protests. Justine and Wesley moved to the suburbs to escape the traps set for residents of the Pruitt-Igoe projects. But decades... Read More

Anika looks forward to visiting her grandparents each Sunday: she gets dressed up, receives lots of hugs, and helps in their warm kitchen. But today, Anika makes a confession: she doesn’t think that she’s brave. Her grandfather uses... Read More

Prepare to blast off to the stars—and with the knowledge of the equipment necessary to get back to Earth—with this eye-catching board book that reveals the mechanics behind the magic of going into space. Cutout forms reveal the... Read More