In Irena Karafilly’s haunting novel "Tunes for Dancing Bears", a woman gives birth to a stillborn child and struggles with the shock and grief that follows. In September 1991, Lydia delivers a full-term baby in a Montreal hospital.... Read More

Set among people whose worship is based on sacred reciprocity with the earth, K. M. Huber’s rich novel "Call of the Owl Woman" follows as a powerful girl embraces her destiny. Patya comes from a long line of medicine women, but she... Read More

In Marcella Pixley’s aching novel-in-verse "Neshama", a lonely, gifted girl navigates middle school tensions and family secrets with some supernatural help. For Anna, who records ghost poems in her notebook and is ostracized at school,... Read More

Mary Noé’s keyhole true crime book The Man Who Shot J.P. Morgan is about false identities, radical politics, and the prewar tensions of the early twentieth-century US. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 16, 1906, Leone Krembs... Read More

Violence undoes a young couple’s love in Alan Govenar’s wrenching autobiographical novel "Come Round Right". When they meet during their freshman year at Ohio State, Adriana is a revelation to Boston-born Aaron. The daughter of a... Read More

Centered by radiant parent-child relationships, Sarah Yahm’s exquisite novel "Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation" is about chronic illness and defiant love. Louise and Leon meet at a friend’s Shabbat dinner. She’s just fled sitting... Read More

A bird who can’t fly learns to do so much more in this quirky picture book about the power of being different. Nelly is left behind when the other birds migrate, but she’s not one to sit and wait; she sails seas, scales mountains,... Read More