British suffragettes fight for women’s equality in Brigitte Dale’s gripping historical novel "The Good Daughters". In 1912, after compromising her “virtue” in secret, Charlotte heads to Cambridge to study at England’s first... Read More

In this interactive, rhyming picture book that plays snippets of classical music from composers including Gustav Holst, Johannes Brahms, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as it goes, a big mouse family in a cozy, tchotchke-packed den prepares... Read More

In Russia, in a time of increased persecution, Jewish communities heard stories about America, with its “sweet air to breathe and wide open space.” A brave few boarded boats, promising to send for their loved ones when they were... Read More

Feeling lonely, “at exactly 7:26—a pretty number, a pretty hour—Re mounted a beam of light and sailed into space,” traveling at the “speed of dreams” in search of something cozy. On the Moon, Re finds not only a place to... Read More

A writer searches for her vanished cousin in "The Year of the Wind", Karina Pacheco Medrano’s unforgettable novel about the personal and generational costs of political chaos. As a girl in Peru, Nina thrilled in stories of mythical... Read More

Women’s instincts and memories are alchemical in A. J. Ashworth’s unnerving speculative collection "Maybe the Birds". In one tale, a school shooting survivor carves mementos mori for the lost; her relationship fractures with the... Read More

A half-submerged island is the setting of a love story “not meant for land” in "When Water Became Blue", Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette’s sweetly wanton novel about women’s desire. Brought to shore by her partner and child, Anaïs, a... Read More

The world transforms around a strange, charismatic girl who was trained to keep her eyes on the skies in the bizarre, wondrous novel "The High Heaven". Orphaned when the cult she was raised in went out to meet alien angels and instead... Read More