Public relations specialist Colette A.M. Phillips’s insightful business book "The Includers" is about making workplaces more inclusive and equitable. An immigrant from Antigua, Phillips began a PR firm in Boston. At the time, white men... Read More

A sleepy mishap with a favorite toy leads a little penguin on a frantic search in this cheeky picture book. The little penguin takes his pink teddy bear, Mikki Olsen, everywhere with him; an ill-placed “sticky icky fish” fixes Mikki... Read More

In Aurora Ascher’s erotic fantasy novel "Sanctuary of the Shadow", a girl fights for the right to live life as her authentic self. A Water Elemental with the ability to see the future and the sole survivor of the genocide against her... Read More

Marcia A. Zug’s detailed social history You’ll Do covers the evolution of marriage via its economic and cultural motivators. Though the book examines other non-romantic motivations for love, such as colonists marrying Indigenous... Read More

A girl befriends an orphaned monster in the graphic novel "In Utero". Despite her protests, Hailey is dropped off at a holiday camp in an old, near-abandoned shopping mall. As other children discover strange jelly objects, Hailey wanders... Read More

Bernardo loves the birdsong that heralds dawn; he wishes he could sing rather than croak. After trying and failing to be like the birds he admires, Bernardo slumps back to his pond, defeated—until a friend reminds him that he’s part... Read More

A girl looking to recover her stolen memories and magical abilities possesses a map that leads to an object that could save a boy’s betrothed in Laurel Black’s adventure-filled fantasy novel "Lost Kingdom", in which two quests... Read More

Patrick Wohl’s page-turning political history "Down Ballot" covers a suburban Chicago election that drew wide attention because of the candidates’ stances on abortion. In 1990, Illinois House of Representatives incumbent Penny Pullen... Read More