Fully illustrated and packed with interesting details that shed light on the vanished Gilded Age, "Cigar Box Lithographs" is a delight at every turn. Charles J. Humber’s "Cigar Box Lithographs" is a highly entertaining illustrated book... Read More

"Far-Fetched and Highly Plausible" is a fun and fast science fiction thriller that questions the future of technology. Leandro Faria’s "Far-Fetched and Highly Plausible" is an action-packed science fiction novel that explores... Read More

"Selectively Lawless" is a rollicking biography of a boundary-testing man. Bombastic and good-natured, Asa Dunnington’s biography of his hell-raising uncle Emmett Long, "Selectively Lawless", reads like an Old West tall tale that you... Read More

To be ten in America is to be mystified—the world is so complicated, tension-filled, callous, and distressing that the allure of a virtual life on a screen is nearly impossible to resist. What can we do for that child? What tools can... Read More

"Owen and Eleanor Make Things Up" is the second in a series of books for young readers starring cheeky Eleanor and her neighbor and sidekick Owen, both second graders. In this installment, Eleanor has a school assignment to write a true... Read More

Is the legend of the four neophyte climbers who, all in one day, summited Denali unharnessed and unroped, inadequately dressed, using primitive equipment and lugging a fourteen-foot-tall, twenty-five-pound tree trunk up treacherous... Read More

"Mallko and Dad" is the tender, honest, and life-affirming personal account of a father and his boy, who has Down syndrome. "Mallko and Dad" strikes quickly and with searing frankness, as Gusti writes: “Sometimes having kids is like... Read More

Jennie Liu’s "Girls on the Line" is a gut-wrenching story of sisterhood and perseverance. Early 2000s China, in the throes of family planning policies and massive industrialization, isn’t kind to orphaned girls like Luli and Yun, who... Read More