As much a tragic romance as it is a war drama, the historical novel "Wild with All Regrets" delves into sensitive topics with grace and tact. In E. L. Deards’s historical novel "Wild with All Regrets", an Irish World War I veteran is... Read More

"Underwater Daughter" is a poetic memoir about transformation and transcendence after abuse. Drawing on a collage of dreams, poems, vignettes, lists, and epigraphs, Antonia Deignan’s unusual memoir "Underwater Daughter" concerns the... Read More

"Shadows We Carry" is an insightful novel that probes the complex, painful question of what it means to be Jewish in a post-Holocaust world. In Meryl Ain’s ravishing historical novel "Shadows We Carry", twin sisters in a Jewish... Read More

Wispy watercolors and black sketchlike lines—hallmarks of the works of author/illustrator team Kobi Yamada and Elise Hurst—burst from the page in this beautiful reminder to find the exceptional in the everyday. A young girl... Read More

In Erica Obey’s clever cozy mystery novel "The Brooklyn North Murder", a librarian teams up with her AI invention to solve a murder in a sleepy college town. Mary Watson is a reference librarian in the rural Hudson Valley, where she... Read More

Sparkles abound in the evening sky of this cheerful picture book about achieving a peaceful goodnight. A sloth and their baby are all smiles in their jungle home, clinging to branches among other happy creatures before retiring to their... Read More

A Parisian Jewish girl is sent into hiding in the piercing Holocaust novel "At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf". Danielle packed her past away to live as Marie-Jeanne, an orphan and a good Catholic girl. In a French hamlet, she goes to... Read More

In the fairy tales and poems of Jane Yolen’s "The Scarlet Circus", there are curious permutations of haunting, mesmerizing love stories. Featuring previously published stories alongside new work and personal commentary, this... Read More