Traumas can be escaped via acceptance in the heart-stopping novel "These Things Happen", about cycles of abuse and addiction. In Michael Eon’s novel "These Things Happen", a recovering alcoholic struggles to help his troubled older... Read More

The historical novel "A Tale of Two Maidens" covers the last days of Joan of Arc’s campaign with spirited flourishes. In Anne Echols’s rousing historical novel "A Tale of Two Maidens", a girl escapes an arranged marriage by joining... Read More

Mike Rothschild’s "Jewish Space Lasers" is a cutting exposé of centuries’-worth of antisemitic scapegoating, often done with one influential family at its center. “Where myth and mystique meet outsized wealth and great historical... Read More

Taras Grescoe’s investigative book "The Lost Supper" elevates the quest to eat sustainably into a jet-stetting journey to nine international destinations to learn ancient foodways and acquire traditional and Indigenous ingredients. An... Read More

Simultaneously heartwrenching and comical, Thomas Reed’s novel "Pocketful of Poseys" follows a family from the death of their matriarch to their journey to scatter her ashes. Cinny Posey, for all her upper-class panache, is an... Read More

Bright colors and multiple techniques populate the illustrations of this rhyming picture book about embracing your true colors. Tired of being dreary and drab, Henry the hermit crab rebrands himself as Fabulous Crab, attaching corals,... Read More

In Hiromi Kawakami’s short story collection "Dragon Palace", bizarre encounters guide lonely people onto new paths. In these stories, troubled lives are forever changed by supernatural forces. One man claims that he was once an... Read More

Grayscale illustrations with touches of color contrast light and shadow to add ambiance to this soothing story about a child and the monster who they are convinced is in their attic. The more the child thinks about it, the bigger and... Read More