"The Mountain Goddess" is an engaging, vivid work of impressive scope, with elements from fantasy, Buddhism, and Indian culture. Shelley Schanfield’s "The Mountain Goddess" presents a fantasy version of ancient India that chronicles a... Read More

Though the focus is on anger, the information provided in this book is helpful in understanding the full range of human emotions. "Healing the Angry Brain" by Ronald Potter-Efron is a remarkable examination of emotional response in the... Read More

This is an accomplished kid’s-eye-level look at Germany, including its food, recreation, education, and family life. Despite being one of the major powers in Europe, Germany is largely unknown to many American children—a situation... Read More

This is a layered dystopia—feminist, violent, and blunt, it will engross its readerships. There are hints that women in the time before the plague had choices, but Etta of Nowhere—who goes by Eddy when she’s on the road... Read More

In this spirited account of a walk through the Alps, inspiration carries through. “One discovers a whole new level of solitude on the inside of a cloud five thousand miles from home,” writes Jonathan Arlan in "Mountain Lines", an... Read More

The universe’s most elusive truths and mysteries are primarily pursued by scientists—a dogged contingent of highly educated, inquisitive minds dead set on understanding how things work. (More than a few poets share these traits.)... Read More

The gentle nudge to pause, listen, look for deeper meaning or humor—especially at the worst of times—is ever present in Sue Scalf’s poetry. But her blood runs plenty hot, and that opposition between the thoughtful and the... Read More

Twins Sean and Dillon Kirrell, age seventeen, have an unusual hobby: drawing a strange, otherworldly train station that came to them in a vision ten years ago. Soon a mysterious man named Carver appears, telling the Kirrell brothers that... Read More