In Linda DeMeulemeester’s historical novel Ephemia Rimaldi, a lonely girl searches for her estranged father. In Canada in the early 1900s, Effy dodges rotten tomatoes and insults on the streets of Toronto alongside her suffragist Aunt... Read More
Hillary Davis’s "French from the Market" is a toothsome cookbook full of robust flavors, sun-dappled photographs, and vibrant recipe introductions. Familiarity with and affection for a French lifestyle “centered on food and the cycle... Read More
Serenella Quarello’s delightful and thoughtful reference text "Extinctopedia" focuses on various animals in danger of disappearing, with suggestions for what can be done to save them. Quarello catalogs more than 150 types of animals,... Read More
In T. L. Simpson’s moving coming-of-age novel "Strong Like You", a high school student in Arkansas struggles to understand what happened to his missing father. When the book begins, Walker’s father is already gone without... Read More
A timely reissue of Charlotte Haldane’s brilliant 1926 dystopian novel, Man’s World is set in a future where individual desires are sacrificed for communal good, women’s roles are prescribed, and genetic makeup is determined by... Read More
Gauzy illustrations complement the fairy-tale feel of this picture book about the magical power of friendship. After moving to a new town, Marvin is lonely. When he receives a fortune from a carnival game that his wish will come true, he... Read More
Melissa Pritchard follows the troubled life of the celebrated yet complex Florence Nightingale in her enthralling novel "Flight of the Wild Swan". Florence Nightingale would never have been happy in the life her mother wanted for her: a... Read More
The master of wordless picture books returns with this moving retelling of Noah’s Ark that speaks to an uncertain future. Long-abandoned structures stretch up from the watery grave of a flooded world as a construction robot, NOA, cares... Read More