A disgraced writer fails to confront or acknowledge his crimes in Tova Reich’s discomfiting novel "Camp Jeff". Jeffrey Epstein (not that one) founded Camp Jeff to rehabilitate people like Gershon, a high-profile author brought down by... Read More
Sally Symes’s colorful, child-friendly reference text "First Big Book of How" compiles dozens of scientific questions on topics ranging from human memory to space telescopes and dinosaur extinction. The questions are siphoned into six... Read More
A college student and her friends navigate a complicated web of relationships in the graphic novel "How Could You", a fond, realistic view of early adulthood. Molly is depressed after a breakup email from Olene, who’s away in Europe... Read More
In A.J. West’s historical novel "The Betrayal of Thomas True", harsh moral laws and intolerance imperil the lives of gay men in Georgian London. Handsome and earnest, Thomas True travels to London in 1715. He yearns for a better life... Read More
Reporter Jen Stout’s "Night Train to Odesa" is a heartbreaking memoir about the Ukrainian people’s fight to survive a relentless war. Offered a journalism scholarship in Moscow, Stout arrived in Russia during Putin’s regime. When... Read More
Cynthia Blakeley’s poignant memoir "The Innermost House" explores her dysfunctional upbringing and family life in working-class Massachusetts. Born in 1958, Blakeley grew up along the shores of Cape Cod, a longstanding summer tourist... Read More
A mouse’s simple yet magical adventures are brought to life in Claire Lebourg’s cozy, charming children’s book "A Day with Mousse". Mousse is content to while his days away enjoying the outdoors around his beachfront home and... Read More
In Renée Schaeffer’s distinctive novel "Ageless", an immortal woman struggles through centuries of tremendous social, scientific, and political changes. Naissa is born into a loving family in 1850, but she loses them to shellfish... Read More