Wes Nisker’s memoir "The Big Bang, the Buddha, and the Baby Boom" covers his search for spiritual meaning during a period of great economic, technological, and social change. Born during World War II and brought up as the only Jewish... Read More

A man under an inexplicable “curse” hopes to leave a worthy legacy behind him in Michael Thompson’s novel "How to Be Remembered". For most children, a birthday is a time to celebrate. For Tommy, it’s a time to be forgotten: at... Read More

Members of the animal kingdom—toucans, elephants, and humans among them—all share the same bedtime ritual in this heartfelt picture book. The illustrations are simple, devoid of backgrounds to focus solely on the mothers and their... Read More

The cast’s exaggerated facial expressions amp up the silly factor in the empathetic picture book introducing Ruby, a little girl who’s more than a little clumsy. Personally, she’s delighted to learn that there’s a medical... Read More

In Sarit Yishai-Levi’s sprawling historical novel "The Woman Beyond the Sea", three generations of women consider what it means to love and the power of knowing your history. Although its chapters are narrated by a rotating cast, the... Read More

A young woman is trapped in a recurring loop of loves gained and lost in different places and eras in the surreal graphic novel "Love Everlasting". Joan, a pretty young woman living sometime in the 1950s, works as the secretary to her... Read More

Rachel Sarah’s "Climate Champions" profiles fifteen women who are fighting against climate change from every avenue of science activism. Covering journalists, professors, conservation biologists, and researchers—many of them from... Read More

A girl languishes in her living room, bored silly with her indoor day. Then a magpie flits onto her window sill and initiates some unexpected play. At its prompting, the girl begins naming what she sees, from the bird to a tree to a... Read More