The evocative prayers collected in Danielle Dulsky’s Bones & Honey invite contemplation and transformation. Across thirteen sections devoted to archetypes and corresponding themes (the Heathen Queen represents empowerment; the Bone... Read More

First published in Hebrew, this amusing picture book tracks a girl and her father as he valiantly tries to get her to sleep. Having only two legs, Shabbat coming every seven days, and things falling down rather than up are just a few of... 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

Essie Fox’s novel "The Fascination" is a scintillating cabinet of curiosities. Theo—whose mother died in childbirth and whose father is, for him, a question mark—grows up love-deprived, hidden on a country estate whose grandeur... Read More

"The Christmas Book" captures the nostalgia and iconography of Christmas in full-color pictorial splendor. With examples spanning from the tenth through twenty-first centuries, the book focuses most on the United States and Europe. After... Read More

In Shannon Takaoka’s charming novel "The Totally True Story of Gracie Byrne", a struggling girl finds a magical journal that lets her rewrite her own life. In 1987—a period captured via references to music, fashion, and... Read More