"Open for Interpretation" is a memoir about how a medical doctor found comfort in the ancient science of astrology. Alicia Blando’s memoir "Open for Interpretation" covers her unconventional combination of a medical career with finding... Read More

The thoughts, feelings, and actions that go into adoption are explored in the novel "The Earthquake Child", which glories in human faults and virtues. Elayne Klasson’s novel "The Earthquake Child" concerns adoption, addiction,... Read More

In this biographical picture book, a girl loves all creatures—even busy, tickly spiders. Drawing on happy memories of her bucolic childhood and her tapestry-weaving mother, she becomes a writer, a sketch artist, and a sculptor. At... Read More

Two baby creatures on quite different sleep schedules hear stories of each other long before they’re able to meet. When they finally encounter each other beneath a moonlit sky, their connection is instant. Their nocturnal and diurnal... Read More

In Ronya Othmann’s captivating novel "The Summers", a German Yazidi girl comes of age in a time of political crisis. Syria is “found on maps, globes, and official documents,” but Leyla, who spends summers there with her... Read More

Memory, family, and generational trauma guide Marina Jarre’s steps in her Holocaust memoir "Return to Latvia". Jarre was young when her parents separated. She left Latvia and grew up in Italy with her Italian mother; she maintained no... Read More

Amused, sometimes annoyed, and always evolving, the land beneath an English village observes the habits of the generations who settle it in Tom Cox’s irresistible novel "Villager". The land beneath Underhill has seen it all: pagan... Read More

In the delightful, enthralling memoir "Justice Is Served", Leslie Karst describes her nine-month endeavor to plan an elegant, four-course dinner for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her husband Marty. When Karst’s father,... Read More