A distinctive urban fantasy novel, Cadwell Turnbull’s "No Gods, No Monsters" is an operatic story involving monsters, magic, and myth. The stage is set when Laina receives a flash drive containing footage of a Boston cop killing a... Read More

In Christopher de Vinck’s novel "Mr. Nicholas", a hardened newspaperman’s life is rocked by a small boy’s love and an encounter with a mysterious old man. On his way to interview a beekeeper, Jim sees Anna’s car clinging to the... Read More

Wanjikũ Wa Ngũgĩ’s dreamlike coming-of-age novel "Seasons in Hippoland" is about the power of storytelling. Mumbi grows up in Victoriana, a country populated by freedom fighters and generals and oppressed by a succession of men in... Read More

Brad Kessler’s compelling and compassionate novel "North" follows Sahro, a young Somali woman who’s forced to flee to Canada to avoid deportation from the US. Detoured by a snowstorm, she becomes the troubled secret guest of a small... Read More

In Jo Watson’s endearing novel "Big Boned", a talented artist’s ideas about her self-worth bloom after she moves to Cape Town. After her parents divorce, Lori transfers to Bay Water High. Her mother, in her distracted grief, rebrands... Read More

Canaries are carried around the world in this informative tale with stunning illustrations. In gilded, folk art style, the early reader focuses on a miners’ canary, who revels in his days off from singing in the dark. When a bird... Read More

Lori Benton’s wrenching second novel in the Kindred series probes the wounds of the US’s racist past to prove that love and God conquer all. Seona is a former slave who lives in Boston with her son, Gabriel. Gabriel’s father, Ian,... Read More

A psycholinguist and a Czech immigrant to Canada, Julie Sedivy lost her first language, so much so that her “Czech heritage began to feel more and more like a vestigial organ.” She is not alone in this experience: Generation 1.5... Read More