Gentility wears a burglar’s mask in "The Gentleman and the Thief", a proper romance set in the criminal underworld of Victorian London. Hollis coasts on his good name while supporting himself as a penny dreadful author. Ana, a... Read More

In Lisa DeSelm’s feminist young adult take on Pinocchio, a girl who became real through enchantment comes into her own and fights for her community’s well being. Seven years ago, Piro was fashioned from wood and spoken to life under... Read More

Enough with kindness and gentleness: this book calls people on their bullsh*t. Jodie Eckleberry-Hunt’s self-help book issues a wake-up call to those who are fed up. As a therapist and a person, Eckleberry-Hunt once faced an impossible... Read More

Cathy Gohlke examines spousal abuse and restored faith in "Night Bird Calling", an engrossing novel about a woman’s flight to rural Appalachia. In 1941, just after her mother’s death, Lilliana overhears her husband Gerald conspiring... Read More

Garments as holy relics, crime scene evidence, and archives that signal absent bodies: in Laura Levitt’s eloquent, moving, meditative book "The Objects That Remain", things stand in for human witnesses to trauma. Years after being... Read More

Direct, brash, and ribald, Australian chef Shannon Martinez is food’s punk rock aunt, unfussy and enviably hip. Her latest cookbook, Vegan With Bite, is a discursive, personal romp that emphasizes food for “eaties,” not... Read More

Monty is a blue, wide-eyed donkey who’s content with his life on the farm, among other loving animals. But someone left the gate open today, and Monty is tempted to wander. Curious by nature, he follows the examples set by a moose and... Read More

When Ava sees an advertisement for the circus, her mother uses her excitement to get some help around the house. Then, Ava dons her headdress—and her invisible cat, Squishy, dons his top hat—and the family heads to the big top. A... Read More