Moving and suspenseful, "The Photographer of Mauthausen" is a based-in-truth story of survival in a Nazi concentration camp. Francisco, a Spanish photographer, is imprisoned by the Nazis because of his communist beliefs. So are many of... Read More

The feckless Sloot returns in "Now Before the Dark", the third book in Sam Hooker’s Very Serious Darkness series. Once an accountant for gangsters, and a former ghost who’s been transfigured into a demon, Sloot endures farcical... Read More

Childhood friends separated by death reunite in Kate Hazel Hall’s supernatural novel "From Darkness". Ari and Alex once played in the Australian wilds. Then Alex drowned, and Ari blamed herself. Years later, a snakebite should have... Read More

A farmer turned religious leader prepares for the rapture in Lin Enger’s novel "American Gospel". Amid the uncertainty and turmoil of President Nixon’s resignation, Enoch knows one thing for certain: Jesus will return in fourteen... Read More

Mirado is from Afghanistan; he was sent to safety while his father stayed to fight a war. Now, he’s a favorite performer for a traveling circus, playing his father’s flute. But the flute is starting to crack. Around Mirado, night... Read More

This latest title from Caldecott Honor winner Carson Ellis is surrealistic and dreamy, tripping through a room of partial objects while the half moon shines in through the window just before bedtime. A halved vase of flowers drips... Read More

From the first snowfall of the year to the sprouting of spring, "Snow Days" walks through the magic of winter in charming rhyming couplets. Meticulous paper and fabric cutouts form illustrations that seem to leap off of the page, with... Read More

Julián and his new friend Marisol are important players in a wedding. When an accident ruins Marisol’s dress, Julián improvises a solution to save the big day. Watercolor and ink illustrations invite lingering over details, like an... Read More