Clear language and thorough explanations make this book widely accessible, especially for the adoptive and foster parents of traumatized children. Children who experience abuse, neglect, or other traumas during their formative years... Read More

This is the welcome kind of parenting book that sugarcoats nothing. Oh, Baby! True Stories About Conception, Adoption, Surrogacy, Pregnancy, Labor, and Love features twenty-three brief essays for parents. Edited by Lee Gutkind and Alice... Read More

This must-read teaches parents how to embrace self-directed play as a joyous necessity for children. In Creating A Beautiful Mess: Ten Essential Play Experiences For A Joyous Childhood, early-childhood educator Ann Gadzikowski examines... Read More

With its vibrant, sophisticated prose style, this is a necessary historical novel in Gulag literature. Sergei Lebedev’s "Oblivion", translated by Antonina W. Bouis, creates a searing historical narrative that begins in a dacha and ends... Read More

Half romance, half meditation on global affairs, "Juventud" examines how the past can affect the present and how memory can be fallible. Vanessa Blakeslee presents a stirring coming-of-age tale in her evocative debut, "Juventud". In a... Read More

A brilliant and profound tale of one young man’s search for identity, and the stories we tell ourselves. Brooklyn novelist Ben Nadler returns with a fabular coming-of-age novel that is both a love song to New York City and a Jewish... Read More

Peter Rupert Lighte is a natural storyteller, and "Host of Memories" collects short stories from throughout his life to form a memoir. Some of the childhood memories are as simple as searching for supplies for a family gathering or... Read More

With both humor and grace, Aiyer and Gupta teach a lesson on gratefulness through the story of a rat who gives a hungry man a dry stick to make a fire and is given a piece of toasted bread as thanks. This is the first in a series of... Read More