In the sumptuous and atmospheric historical novel "The Lady of the Cliffs", the past has far-reaching consequences for a woman coming into her destiny. Vengeance and the resolve to stop further harm drive teenage cousins in Rebecca... Read More

The complex fantasy novel "Enok and the Womb of Gods" is set in an early world wherein serpents roam the earth and humanity is in its infancy. A. SkoroBogaty’s religious fantasy novel "Enok and the Womb of Gods" imagines a primordial... Read More

Aaron Gilbreath knows that you cannot understand California without understanding its interior. Thus, his travelogue "The Heart of California" explores the misunderstood, troubled, and lovely San Joaquin Valley in search of illumination.... Read More

Garments as holy relics, crime scene evidence, and archives that signal absent bodies: in Laura Levitt’s eloquent, moving, meditative book "The Objects That Remain", things stand in for human witnesses to trauma. Years after being... Read More

Everyone is worried about Ladybug, whose teacher asked her class to draw elephants. What Ladybug turned in was a mass of dark swirls. The doctor checks her hearing, and concerned adults watch her play, but no one thinks to ask Ladybug... Read More

In Makenzy Orcel’s "The Immortals", a grieving woman vents her feelings on death and loss. A Haitian sex worker cajoles her client, a writer, into recording the life of her protégé, who was killed in the 2010 earthquake. Despite the... Read More

In rhyming text and with indomitable cheer, this picture book wanders through the wonders of the animal kingdom. A freckled and bespectacled girl is the audience’s guide, introducing creatures close to home, like mice and cats, and... Read More

In Antarctica, ice stretches “as far as the eye can see,” but don’t let the stark landscape fool you: the southernmost continent is teeming with life. Encounter giant forests of algae beneath the waterline, and meet creatures... Read More