A young woman is molded by a charismatic friend and a new lover in the fraught coming-of-age novel "A Place for People Like Us". Hannah is determined to succeed at her prestigious business school despite her lack of money and... Read More

Perspective is everything in this fun, sweet picture book about a village that is subjected to mysterious, mischievous acts when the sun goes down and a child giant comes out to play. The villagers wake to find their benches stacked and... Read More

With scathing insights into America’s commodification of tragedies, Ben Wickey’s "More Weight" is a humane, absorbing graphic novel. With dual storylines set in the 1860s and 1690s, this sobering text vivifies the Salem witch trials... Read More

Jewel tone, whimsical illustrations evocative of children’s classics vivify this lovely, surreal introduction to the ballet. In it, two children slip through a hedge to witness bunny rabbits pirouetting and pliéing their ways across... Read More

The end is a new beginning for a young man named in defiance of death in Alain Mabanckou’s otherworldly novel "Dealing with the Dead". On Independence Day for the Republic of the Congo, Liwa, a hotel cook, gets dressed up, receives his... Read More

Eva is nervous about Hanukkah this year, in a new town with her friends so far away. But when the neighbor, Charlie, sees the light from the hanukkiah in her window, it prompts him to reach out. Eva is overjoyed to share holiday treats... Read More

In David Ewald’s riveting science fiction caper "The Thief of That", an anxiety-ridden aspiring novelist is given the chance to travel backward in time. At thirty, underemployed Ravel worries that the opportunities he deserved all... Read More

Minty, born enslaved in 1822, is impossible to contain: “she / is soil, seed, root, tree, / stem, flower, air, breeze, / stream, river, waves, sea, / Sun, moon, a planetary jubilee.” As a child, she has visions of the Promised Land;... Read More