Mina is nervous about starting at a new kindergarten; she doesn’t speak the same language as her classmates and teacher, and she is quiet at first. While she learns English, Mina and her classmates find connection in the universal... Read More

The bond between a mother and her daughter is explored in ways both familiar and novel in this stunning watercolor picture book highlighting Inuit culture. “Do you love me?” a little girl asks her mother, a simple question that leads... Read More

An undocumented teenager is charged with manslaughter and works to remake her life in Mona Alvarado Frazier’s searing novel "The Garden of Second Chances". At seventeen, Juana is sent to a Southern California juvenile correctional... Read More

Rooted in Chinese folklore, this story follows a young boy who uses creativity and courage to save his village. A strange fog rolls through Qiqi’s village, taking many of the village’s children with it, so Qiqi starts making clay... Read More

In Ken Sparling’s meditative, quizzical novel "Not Anywhere, Just Not", a woman searches for meaning after her husband’s mysterious disappearance. An aging couple leads a quiet life, referring to themselves as “the boy and the... Read More

An aging Israeli academic reckons with his family’s crimes—and his own—in Agur Schiff’s novel Professor Schiff’s Guilt. Professor Schiff is in no way proud of the fact that his ancestor made his fortune as a slave trader. But... Read More

At sixty and retired, Marianne Bohr and her husband felt fit and ready for adventure. Thus, they planned to hike the famed, daunting Grande Randonnée 20. "The Twenty" covers their 124-mile trek along the spine of Corsica, which... Read More

Triumphant and affecting, the historical novel "What We Leave Behind" follows an immigrant as she faces polio and the distrust of others. In Christine Gallagher Kearney’s tender historical novel "What We Leave Behind", a war bride... Read More