Creativity in all its forms is celebrated and encouraged in this picture book that calls to the artist in all of us. “If you are an artist,” the book asserts, “blue is not just blue,” “you daydream adventure,” and... Read More

Love blooms between a renegade Christian and a jailer’s daughter, but is threatened by controversies, in Jamie Ogle’s invigorating romance novel "Of Love and Treason". In third-century Rome, Iris was blinded in an accident. She longs... Read More

Intentional and poetic, the historical novel "The Girl in the Water" follows a Soviet Union coming-of-age. Joseph Howse’s charming bildungsroman "The Girl in the Water" is set in Ukraine in the 1980s; in it, an observant girl becomes... Read More

A rainy day, a teacher’s headache, and a canceled trip to the zoo spell disaster for the class of Room 4 in this humorous picture book. First, Flynn blows a raspberry; then, twins Ruby and Phoebe start calling one another ugly. One by... Read More

A young girl shows the many ways one can demonstrate love throughout the day in this picture book with a simple but powerful message. “I am loving” is the repeated refrain as the girl goes about her day sharing snacks with new... Read More

The enigmatic political artist who shaped Putin’s regime tells the tale of modern Russia in Giuliano da Empoli’s novel "The Wizard of the Kremlin". An unnamed academic encounters reclusive Baranov, a former theater director,... Read More

A young wolf wakes up on the wrong side of the bed in this story for anyone who has ever had a bad day. A bad night’s sleep is just the beginning of Gory Rory Fangface’s troubles—his family is also out of cereal, he forgot his... Read More

In the romance novel "Bernadette Barrymore", an Irish American woman and an English aristocrat fall in love—and overcome multiple challenges. In Diane Coia-Ramsay’s romance novel "Bernadette Barrymore", a woman’s marriage is tested... Read More