A historically insightful memoir, "The Shochet" trades between humorous and grave descriptions of rural Jewish life in nineteenth-century Ukraine. The engrossing memoir of a Hasidic Jew living under the yoke of Tsarist Russia, volume one... Read More

Three friends interrogate, investigate, and draw conclusions based on their own creative ideas in the children’s mystery novel "The Case of the Missing Cheese". In Lisa C. Mitchell’s cozy children’s mystery novel "The Case of the... Read More

"Asha and Baz Meet Elizebeth Friedman" is an intriguing novel that centers an underlauded woman pioneer in the sciences. In Caroline Fernandez’s adventure novel "Asha and Baz Meet Elizebeth Friedman", best friends travel through time... Read More

Four friends navigate a vibrant, magic-filled world and decide where their priorities lie in the fantasy novel "The Caves of Wonder". Kirsten Marion’s Lucy and Dee fantasy novel "The Caves of Wonder" follows an eclectic group’s quest... Read More

Set in a dystopian near-future, Hilary Zaid’s conspiracy novel "Forget I Told You This" sets itself apart with erudite flair and heartfelt human drama. Amy specializes in writing letters by hand in an age where the act of writing is a... Read More

A child impatiently waits for snow in this tongue-in-cheek picture book about living in the moment. Certain that “nothing is as fun as snow,” a little boy keeps peering out the window, awaiting the expected storm; with his eyes on... Read More

In his memoir "A Fine Line", Graham Zimmerman reflects on the dangers and demands that mountaineering exerts on those who feel its lure. By his mid-thirties, Zimmerman had already been named New Zealand Alpinist of the Year and awarded... Read More

Jessica Hendry Nelson’s probing memoir-in-essays "Joy Rides through the Tunnel of Grief" grapples with divorce, childlessness, sexual orientation, and addiction. With subjects including Nelson’s origin story (wherein her mother’s... Read More