Mary Tabor’s Who By Fire, about a man reckoning with his wife’s death, serves up language so precise and assured that it leaves a reader breathless with its quiet force. There are no loose ends in this intricate story by an... Read More

Saint Francis of Assisi was a complex individual who faced many instances of adversity in his life in Italy. In this children’s book, illustrator Demi delivers a retelling of his story, from his birth in 1182 to his participation in... Read More

In our increasingly digital world, where do newspapers fit in? And what should they provide readers? These are some of the questions journalist Mark Di Ionno sets out to answer in his new novel. The premise of the book is simple: an... Read More

"Transit", by acclaimed French novelist and short story writer Abdourahman Waberi, is a timely and politically relevant novel. Originally published in French in 2003, it is his fourth book to be translated and re-released in English and... Read More

Simple isn’t always easy to pull off; to stand the test of time, a board book needs to have a straightforward message, wide appeal, and entertaining pictures that are fun to look at over and over again. Luckily, John Hutton and Andrea... Read More

"Palace of Gifts" by Kathleen Currieri-Rosson is an allegorical novel that captures the universal search for meaning. The story takes place in a kingdom ruled by the Good Master, who knows and recognizes everyone. Every citizen of the... Read More

C.C. Lea’s The Hunt: Caprian 2 continues the story of Kyle, first introduced in The Lost: Caprian 1. Kyle heads an extended clan of weres, shape shifters, kinetics, telepaths, healers, and seers. The book’s prologue is set in... Read More

Calling Carl Sandburg and other Lincoln scholars “ass-lickers,” “imbeciles,” and “sycophants,” and denigrating all previous biographies, histories, and works on America’s sixteenth president as “bullshit” is not the... Read More