"Throes" is an engrossing memoir in which a family member’s addiction rips apart many lives. Mary Dolor’s gripping memoir, "Throes", finds her grappling with her daughter’s drug addiction. This story of Dolor’s daughter... Read More

“Finally, the poem I will not write.” With such an opener, Adam Falkner dares to let go of his debut collection. Most every image and sentiment to follow feels unburdening, like a rebirth. Falkner’s work has appeared on HBO, NBC,... Read More

Everyone has a story to tell or secret to keep in this one-of-a-kind counting, seek-and-find mystery. Ranging from representing zero to over a billion, the book’s clever illustrations highlight the figures to be counted in a rainbow of... Read More

Challenged to a game of hide and seek, four ladybugs learn a quick lesson in camouflage as they try their best to blend in before a bow tie-wearing beetle can detect them. In this rhythmic and engaging tale on sturdy board book pages,... Read More

In Erin Yun’s enchanting "Pippa Park Raises Her Game", a girl starts a new school and tries to reinvent her image. Pippa’s mom lives in Korea, so her older sister Mina is raising her, though the sisters don’t always get along.... Read More

Heidi Chiavaroli’s thrilling romance "The Tea Chest" asks questions that resonate beyond the immediate needs of its heroines. Emma and Hayley live two hundred years apart, but they are connected through their tenacity and willingness... Read More

Fulfilling the promise that “the last shall be first,” Khristi Lauren Adams’s The Parable of the Brown Girl is a moving call to power for black women and girls. Drawing on biblical stories and Adams’s personal experiences as a... Read More

Stalin: if you’re Russian and of a certain age, his name causes your blood to run Siberian cold. It’s not for nothing that Uncle Joe’s twenty-four-year reign (1929–1953) is frequently called the “other Holocaust”—upwards of... Read More