"Wild Flower" is a sweet, clever quickstep with characters who feel like longtime friends. "Wild Flower", by Abbie Williams, casts a satisfying spell of romance, suspense, and the supernatural. Jillian Davis and her niece, Camille, share... Read More

For middle-grade readers, Geraldine Mills’s "Gold" is an adventurous postapocalyptic novel about two brothers discovering the world around them—and by extension, their own past. Twin brothers Starn and Esper live in a world covered... Read More

"101 Places to Pray Before You Die" will guide you to places that can revitalize your spiritual life and nourish your soul with beauty. Calling the book his “Catholic bucket list,” Thomas J. Craughwell, in 101 Places to Pray Before... Read More

An appealing voice parses through history to demonstrate how the author eventually returned to Islam. How to Be a Muslim: An American Story details Haroon Moghul’s journey from nonbelief to faith. With capacious wit and impassioned... Read More

Davis ensures that Calomiris will not slip quietly into obscurity, instead preserving her uncomfortable part in the Red Scare. "Undercover Girl" is the biography of Angela Calomiris, a Greenwich Village lesbian who worked with the FBI... Read More

Time-travel troubles complicate a budding teen romance in this enjoyable debut. Gwen Cole’s "Cold Summer" intertwines a budding teen romance with time travel, a nice mix that follows the rules of its universe. Kale Jackson started time... Read More

Comprehensive and scholarly, "Finding Feminism" is best for the seasoned millennial feminist or for the new one truly committed to the cause. Alison Dahl Crossley’s Finding Feminism: Millennial Activists and the Unfinished Gender... Read More

Belas Rift is a richly imaginative and unique fantasy story of friendship and kindness winning out over greed and selfishness. Stephan von Clinkerhoffen’s The Hidden City of Chelldrah-ham: Belas Rift is an enjoyable fantasy adventure... Read More