It’s encouraging to see a children’s book focused so specifically on the value of kindness, and one that gives so many definitions of what that term can mean. In the picture book What Does it Mean to Be Kind?, author Rana DiOrio has... Read More

Those looking for a meaningful story forged against the backdrop of a relevant social construct will enjoy going on this adventure. In "The Right Wrong Thing", a novel by Ellen Kirschman, police psychologist Dr. Dot Meyerhoff discovers... Read More

This brilliant thriller centers on an abducted teen who’s not the “average” victim. Take nearly everything that’s ever been written (fictionally or not) about what happens to kidnapped girls (they often end up dead) and toss it... Read More

A rollicking pace, complex characters, skillful turns of phrase, and evocative imagery make this book enjoyable. Carter Wilson’s "The Comfort of Black" is a superior thriller full of unpredictable twists. Themes of the repetition of... Read More

Amabelle Desir belongs to herself, or so she responds to the wealthy Spanish family that adopts her shortly after she watches her parents drown. Such is Amabelle’s measured tone in the face of disaster. As the narrator of Edwidge... Read More

Creepy and fascinating, this compilation of unforgettable stories defies explanation. Supernatural phenomena and fireside legend haunt the pages of this spooky history text. Richard Southall’s "Haunted Plantations of the South"... Read More

We don’t need the Supreme Court to tell us that all books are created equal, even those with preexisting conditions. Books also have the right to pursue happiness which means they dream of being acclaimed works of intelligence,... Read More

Jefferson Long Soldier returns from two tours in Iraq, whole in body but wounded in soul and with the deep-seated conviction that Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, which he carried with him, saved his life.... Read More