Iman Mersal’s biography explores the troubled, unfulfilled life of Egyptian writer Enayat al-Zayyat. In 1963, twenty-six-year-old Enayat al-Zayyat committed suicide using sleeping pills. Enayat had finished one novel and was working on... Read More

In Anders Sparring’s humorous chapter book "The Pinchers and the Diamond Heist", the sole redeeming member of a family of bandits is a scrupulous boy who can’t seem to lie. Theo’s parents and sister have a penchant for thievery.... Read More

Available in both English and Spanish, this stylized picture book adds some comic book flair to its story of four friends fighting to save their home. Known as the Wild Ones, the diverse friends bond over their love of monsters; they... Read More

Tony Jones’s meditative memoir "The God of Wild Places" is about leaving the ministry but remaining alive to spirituality through outdoor adventures in Minnesota and further afield. It was Jones’s childhood ambition to become a... Read More

In Zalika Reid-Benta’s fantasy novel "River Mumma", a woman without a sense of direction reconnects to her heritage while on a quest. Alicia thought that, when she finished graduate school in New York, an opportunity in publishing... Read More

Moving through the ambiguities of language—English, Spanish, and Paraguay’s Indigenous Guaraní—the grin of a big cat shadowing his every unstealthy step through North and South American habitats and fixed ideas of manhood, Diego... Read More

A brooding, magic-wielding elf barges into a librarian’s secrets as she investigates her mother’s mysterious death in Amy Kuivalainen’s novel "Of Starlight and Midnight". After a violent war, elvish brothers Søren and Aramis are... Read More

In Darcie Little Badger’s compassionate novel "Sheine Lende", memories live on through love. Aided by their ghost dog, Nellie, and their ancestral ability to awaken deceased animals from Below, Shane works with her mother, Lorenza, to... Read More