Dutch Girl / Audrey Hepburn and World War II / Robert Matzen / GoodKnight Books / Hardcover $27.95 (400pp) / 978-1-73227-353-5 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / Audrey Hepburn, with her fresh innocence, gamine ways,... Read More

The ironic fact that so many powerful and successful contemporary women refuse to identify as feminists—the same feminist movement that did so much to help these women achieve their empowered status in the first place—points to... Read More

Let’s take a moment to look back at the twentieth century in order to appreciate the stunning changes wrought by the two great wars. “Appreciate” may be the wrong word in solemn remembrance of the Holocaust, but from the standpoint... Read More

A Piglet Named Mercy / Kate DiCamilloChris Van Dusen, illustrator / Candlewick Press / Hardcover $18.99 (32pp) / 978-0-7636-7753-4 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / Fans of the Mercy Watson easy chapter series will... Read More

Mira’s Curly Hair / Maryam al SerkalRebeca Luciani, illustrator / Lantana Publishing / Hardcover $17.99 (32pp) / 978-1-911373-61-2 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / For anyone who has ever wished for straighter,... Read More

It’s not your imagination—you’ve been hearing and reading a whole lot more about autism in the past few years. The reason is because the medical industry didn’t have a clue about the disease until quite recently. Which points to... Read More

We thought you could use a dose of good news about the environment, so we’re pleased to introduce Leigh Calvez, a citizen naturalist here to offer us a report from the whale front. The author of The Breath of a Whale: The Science and... Read More

Zero Bomb / M. T. Hill / Titan Books / Softcover $14.95 (304pp) / 978-1-78909-001-7 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / Even a surveillance state can’t see everything. M. T. Hill’s Zero Bomb is set in a near-future... Read More