Sandy Winterbottom’s "The Two-Headed Whale" intertwines her engrossing 2016 Antarctica travel account with the story of a whaling ship deckhand in the early 1950s. Winterbottom spent six weeks on a “sleek, beautiful, hand-built—and... Read More

In Mónica Ojeda’s horror novel, six artists in Barcelona are connected to an infamous horror video game, "Nefando". Unfolding through a prism of perspectives, the story switches between inhabiting the consciousnesses of roommates... Read More

The fraught journeys of refugees—both along the way and long after arrival—are revealed through a girl and three bears in this touching picture book. At the suggestion of her bat friend, a girl takes in three traveling bears, the... Read More

In their exciting speculative book "How We Ended Racism", Justin Williams and Shelly Tygielski envision a future in which racism is unknown. Born of the need to do more than just talk about their despair and outrage over COVID-19 and the... Read More

In Kathleen Fine’s thriller "Girl on Trial", a teenager is prosecuted for manslaughter. Emily is sixteen. On top of her more ordinary concerns, her mother, Debbie, is an alcoholic; she’s developing an addiction to alcohol herself;... Read More

In the emotive, empathetic memoir "We Used to Dance", a family has to let go of one of its beloved members. Debbie Chein Morris’s loving memoir We Used To Dance is about the emotional and relational difficulties of caring for a... Read More

A child treks across the Mexican desert with their mother, guided by the moon as they make their way to their father and to freedom. In poetic prose, the child muses on the moon, likening themselves and their journey to the celestial... Read More

With a dizzying menagerie of connections, scandals, and misremembered histories that become clearer as the book progresses, "The Palisades" is a dark tale about the follies of lifelong pity. A glitz-obsessed caregiver is mired in... Read More