This colorful, sturdy picture book not only gives lessons on polar bears and maternal love, but covers the water cycle as well. Snowy is a very smart bear who knows how to fish, slide down icebergs, and appreciate the arctic sky. But he... Read More

Mad poets. Gay men. Hilarious alcoholics … They all worked at Pickwick and would soon become my extended family. In this humorous and moving memoir, the author charts her journey from summer clerk at the legendary Pickwick Bookshop in... Read More

The 2006 winner of the prestigious Iowa Short Fiction Award, this debut collection mines a neglected niche of literary territory—working-class Eastern Kentucky—in much the same way that Alice Munro explored rural Canada, with the... Read More

Eleven-year-old Mariangela had been asking for a piano for as long as she can remember. She wants one just like her cousin Gigi’s. Imagine her shock and disappointment when her Nonna presents her with her grandfather’s old, bulky,... Read More

Loch Ness has its monster and Wisconsin has its Hodag. Although neither has ever been captured, these mythological creatures have spawned wonderful tales and legends. Generations of lumberjacks in the Wisconsin forests have amused... Read More

A paddle across a lake, time to watch rare birds on the water, a frantic attempt to stop a “bad moment” in the woods—through the pages of this delightful book,[i][b][/i][/b] these events on a summer day are the recipe for a young... Read More

A popular young private high school teacher and her lover are found naked and murdered on a bleak Lake Michigan beach just after the summer season has ended. When Ray Elkins, the very literate and easygoing county sheriff, investigates... Read More

“A study at Harvard Medical School evaluating the diets of 16,000 boys and girls aged 9 to 14 years found that those who frequently ate with their parents were 1.5 times more likely to eat the recommended number of servings of fruits... Read More