A heartwarming, magical middle-grade novel, Sarah Marie A. Jette’s "What the Wind Can Tell You" tackles tough issues with sensitivity. Twelve-year-old Isabelle wants to harness the power of wind for her science fair project. She... Read More

Enriching and evocative, Connie Hampton Connally’s historical "The Songs We Hide" is about the redemptive potency of beauty, love, and music in post-World War II Hungary. It’s 1951, and Stalinist repression rules society. Fear is... Read More

In Lynn Waltz’s Hog Wild: The Battle for Workers’ Rights at the World’s Largest Slaughterhouse, the dangerous and exploitative meat-packing industry receives fresh focus through a fourteen-year campaign to unionize the Smithfield... Read More

Conrad Bishop and Elizabeth Fuller reimagine the search for the grail in Galahad’s Fool, an experimental, labyrinthine work that highlights the all-consuming nature of art. Drawing from decades of experience behind and on the stage,... Read More

Detailed and devastating, Kim Lefèvre’s intimate memoir "White Métisse" introduces American audiences to the brutal lived experiences of biracial children in Vietnam during its years as a French colony. In Lefèvre’s intimate... Read More

Christoph Ribbat’s "In the Restaurant" serves up a fascinating buffet of fare and facts with its panoramic yet intimate look at the enduring concept of serving food to patrons. The book spans centuries and cuisines from the compiled... Read More

Starting with the adventure of a little girl who must find and retrieve her father’s bones from the bottom of the ocean, "The Secret of the Purple Lake" is a series of five compelling stories by Yaba Badoe. Each story has the rhythm... Read More

If Babe Ruth had not captured the public imagination when he did, odds are baseball would never have become the national pastime and the multibillion dollar industry it is today. However, as Edmund F. Wehrle thoroughly details in... Read More