Meena resents that books consume her home. They’re on every surface; they fill up cupboards, closets, and sinks. In rebellion, Meena decides that she hates to read. But curiosity nestles inside of her nonetheless—as she discovers... Read More

Sheri Brenden’s "Break Point" covers the politics and legal moves involved in the creation of women’s athletics programs. Peggy Brenden and Toni St. Pierre were raised in an era when people believed that girls neither had the... Read More

The Chinese diaspora meets culinary ingenuity in "Have You Eaten Yet?", Cheuk Kwan’s robust food travelogue and social history of Chinese restaurants. Kwan, whose documentary Chinese Restaurants spanned five continents, revisits the... Read More

People known for their involvement with the occult take up the mantle of defending England during wartime in the entertaining historical novel "The Witches of World War II". Doreen Dominy, a witch who also happens to work at England’s... Read More

Dutch journalist Pieter van Os’s "Hiding in Plain Sight" is the biography of Mala Rivka Kizel, the only person in her Orthodox Jewish family to survive the Holocaust, which she did by passing as a gentile in Poland and Germany. Born in... Read More

A spider-thief, a slave, and a woman with hidden darkness inside team up to save the world in Brenda J. Pierson’s Arabian-inspired fantasy novel "Joythief". Mariq is a pampered princess in Kuriza by day and a gifted spider-thief for... Read More

A group of siblings takes a tour through Grandma’s garden in this charming picture book with a nod to ecology. Blue-lined, sketchlike illustrations form delicate backdrops for large, colorful images of the flora and fauna found in the... Read More

In the mid-nineteenth century, the expanding United States worked to colonize the territory that’s now Arizona. To do so, it turned to the Middle East for expertise, inspiration, and camels. Natalie Koch’s "Arid Empire" shows how... Read More