A sixth grader navigates life’s hard knocks with wit, some wisdom, and experience in Big Nate: Nailed It!, the latest collection of the long-running syndicated comic strip. Nate, seeking to better his fortune, decides he needs a good... Read More

Spirited Clarice returns in Lauren Childs’s chapter book "Clarice Bean, Scram!", encountering a stray dog whose arrival inspires warm capers. Clarice—a curious, naïve, and high-strung girl—wants nothing quite so much as her older... Read More

An enticing visitor spells doom—or a new beginning—for a distinguished but troubled family line in Marie Hélène Poitras’s novel "Sing, Nightingale". The Berthoumieux men have been caught in an endless cycle of control, lust,... Read More

An elder care worker struggles with her daughter’s choices in Kim Hye-jin’s moving novel "Concerning My Daughter". A mother raises her child, instills good values, and models appropriate behavior: for the novel’s unnamed narrator,... Read More

A Black woman rebels against racism and class, finding her voice, in Kimberly Garrett Brown’s novel Cora’s Kitchen. In 1928, Cora James is an aspiring writer who works as a librarian in New York. She is aware of the privileged... Read More

Gemma Dale outlines strategies for thriving in a remote or hybrid workplace in "How to Work Remotely". Following a global crisis that revealed that many jobs could be performed remotely, some workers relished the opportunity to return to... Read More

Influenced by Persian culture, "The Bruising of Qilwa" is a stunning fantasy novella that confronts questions of belonging: to a culture, a family, and to yourself. Nonbinary blood magic practitioner Firuz might be considered one of the... Read More

Jonathan T. Bailey’s evocative, candid memoir "When I Was Red Clay" explores spirituality, heritage, and the lives and landscapes we choose to inhabit. Bailey grew up in a large Mormon family in rural Utah. His parents’ marriage was... Read More