A kitten with a sweet tooth is eager to taste the delicacies she’s put aside—but others reached her donut, cheesecake, and chocolate before her! Pull back the flaps by each colorful concoction to reveal the culprits, from a snacking... Read More

"No Reading Allowed" is a laugh-out-loud exploration of the absurd world of homonyms. Disparate illustrations are paired with bits of text that sound identical when read aloud, as with a portrait of Sir Francis Bacon by a sunny seaside... Read More

A boy visits his grandmother across the stars in this future-set galactic adventure. Starting at a space station that’s littered with inventive aliens of every size and shape, the boy hops on a spaceship headed to Earth, where... Read More

The harsh realities of immigration are filtered through a man’s experiences in Gaëlle Josse’s novel, "The Last Days of Ellis Island". Ellis Island, the legendary point of entry for millions of American immigrants, is set to shut its... Read More

Alan Rose’s literary novel "As If Death Summoned" is about grief and community in the time of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The book’s unnamed narrator has returned to the US from Australia, where he spent a decade with his partner, Gray,... Read More

“If it were followed by spring or summer, I would love autumn unreservedly,” writes Horatio Clare. Instead, autumn, for all its glory, warns the Welsh-born writer that winter will soon engulf Britain and Wales in gales, sleet, and... Read More

John Glenn, a prominent representative of the Greatest Generation, gets a dimensional treatment in Alice L. George’s biography, "The Last American Hero". While many Americans think of astronaut and senator John Glenn as “a bit of a... Read More

Regarded as the first Indigenous novel published in Canada, "Hunter with Harpoon" contains Markoosie Patsauq’s story of an Inuit boy’s treacherous coming-of-age in its original Inuktitut, as well as new English and French... Read More