Meticulously researched and plotted, the novel threads the Blackstone family seamlessly through the narrative of the Civil War and the preceding conditions. Alvin S. Yusin’s historical novel "When Cotton Was King" is a... Read More

In this enchanting introduction to some of the most celebrated ballets of all time, tiny dancers will meet Princess Odette and Prince Siegfried from Swan Lake, Princess Aurora from Sleeping Beauty, and half a dozen others, while the... Read More

From Columbus’s journey in 1492 to seventeenth-century slave ships, the infamous Titanic, and present-day ocean-dwelling communities, the terrible majesty of the sea is celebrated through a collection of poems penned by a bevy of... Read More

Kowalski’s emotionally raw descriptions of her struggles will strike a familiar and comforting chord with other would-be parents. What if one of the secrets to becoming a mother is learning not to force parenthood into a predetermined... Read More

Smart and sensual, You Can’t Buy Love Like That captures a woman coming into her own in a time of tremendous social change. Carol E. Anderson’s You Can’t Buy Love Like That: Growing Up Gay in the Sixties is an immediately engaging... Read More

Brutal honesty wins out over artifice in this story of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Sometimes, despite the best preparations we make: levees break, defenses fall. Such vulnerabilities are an overarching theme of C. Morgan... Read More

This is a beautifully written ode to the inherent magic of books and reading. Books are portals to other worlds. In "The Wild Book", a young boy learns about the power of stories when he explores his uncle’s enchanted library of... Read More

Stories have stories, and when these stories are about stories like To Kill a Mockingbird or Frankenstein or Lolita or Charlotte’s Web or another classic, beloved novel, those stories take on great meaning. Of Infinite Jest, in an... Read More