In Youssef Rakha’s bold novel "The Dissenters", a son pieces together his mother’s Egyptian story. Following his mother’s death, Nour experiences visions of her in their attic. Piecemeal, he writes to his estranged sister, Shimo,... Read More

Fifty years of progress toward gender equity in sports is highlighted in sports media professor Jane McManus’s smart, persuasive book Fast Track. With insights from athletes and advocates, financiers, commentators, and analysts, the... Read More

A fascinating, multifaceted collection of armchair treks, Linda Cracknell’s travel memoir "Doubling Back" is about revisiting significant places on foot. Cracknell’s walks, undertaken sometimes solo and at other times with... Read More

A little boy’s blanket makes a break for it in this runaway hit of a bedtime story. The boy is ready for bed, but his blanket isn’t; it jumps up, packs a pizza into a bag, and slips out a window into the night. But no one believes... Read More

In Kevin G. Chapman’s mystery novel "Double Takedown", veteran detectives suspect that an open-and-shut murder case was, in fact, a frame job. When a Broadway actor drops dead at a fundraising gala, all the evidence points to his... Read More

An action-packed, heartfelt coming-of-age story, Lee Sanders’s novel "Under the Light of Fireflies" is set during an eventful summer. In the summer of 1981, twelve-year-old Noah expects his biggest concerns to be Little League, his... Read More

In Jamie Ogle’s historical novel "As Sure as the Sea", romance blossoms between a coral diver and a burdened pastor as anti-Christian fervor boils over in Rome. 310 CE is a difficult time for Christians: Emperor Diocletian enacts a... Read More

A world tour comes courtesy of the humble egg in this bright culinary adventure. A is for Avgolemono, a “silky chicken soup” from Greece, and M is for Mote Pillo, hominy “scrambled in a bath of milk” from Ecuador, in this ABCs of... Read More