Christopher Kilham’s "The Lotus and the Bud" is an enlightening guide to the ancient practice of cannabis-infused yoga and its profound benefits for the body, mind, and spirit. Kilham reveals that, according to Hindu legend, the god... Read More

In this gorgeous story about claiming home where we are loved, Lily’s grandma proposes a game to ease the pain of moving: they’ll find ten beautiful sights to celebrate along the way. Though at first Lily’s vision is obscured by... Read More

In Mameve Medwed’s novel "Minus Me", after receiving devastating news about her health, a woman decides to leave her husband detailed directions on how to live the rest of his life without her. Annie lives in a small town in Maine,... Read More

The story of how the Jesuits began usually focuses on Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, but Jon Sweeney’s fascinating biography adds a third name: Peter Faber. Faber was born in 1506 and grew up in a French hamlet as the child of... Read More

A girl lives with her grandparent in the back room of a sleepy grocer in this subtle wordless tale about how acceptance makes neighborhoods brighter. The detailed illustrations show each day starting like those before it: arranging... Read More

A boy becomes an unwitting caregiver as he navigates puberty in Jaap Robben’s coming-of-age novel "Summer Brother". When Brian is thirteen, his disabled older brother, Lucien, comes to live with him and their uncaring, impoverished... Read More

This upbeat, rhyming counting story features a smiling shepherd and cheerful sheep—the littlest of whom gets distracted on her way up the hill. While racing lizards, spinning spiders, and croaking frogs are a source of fascination for... Read More

Melanie Finn’s novel "The Hare" interrogates the complicated, often messy aesthetics of modern womanhood. Rosie is guileless, yearning, and eighteen when she submits a delicate self-portrait as part of a lark application to Parsons;... Read More