A mother reassures her child of the depths of her love in this stunning picture book that will fast become a bedtime ritual. “I love you like the mighty eagle loves to soar” and “like wolf cubs love to laze” are among the nature... Read More

In Jim Beane’s thrilling novel "The Deadening", two scarred World War I veterans clash on the home front. Hickman and Redd are damaged after the war, though they handle with their wounds in different ways. Hickman works as an itinerant... Read More

In a remote Italian town, an unassuming cobbler is drawn into helping partisans fight against fascists and Nazis in Sacha Naspini’s novel "The Bishop’s Villa". Despite missing several fingers, René is the cobbler of Le Case. He’s... Read More

This picture book biography is the latest in a celebrated series, rooting adult successes in childhood lessons. Growing up, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry struggled in school; he failed his Naval Academy entrance exams and found little career... Read More

In Leslie Gentile’s sensitive novel "Elvis, Me, and the Postcard Winter", a girl’s relationship with her mother is centered. From the Eagle Shores Indian Reserve in Vancouver Island, twelve-year-old Truly settles into life with Andy... Read More

In Ellen Kirschman’s stunning mystery novel "Call Me Carmela", a police psychologist helps a teenager find her birth parents, exposing secrets that endanger everyone involved. Dot, a contract psychologist with the police department,... Read More

Gerald Easter and Mara Vorhees’s "The Last Stand of the Raven Clan" is an engrossing history of the Tlingit-Russian war, its causes, and its impacts on North America. Written from the perspective of the Tlingit, this refreshing... Read More

Phyllis Gobbell’s novel "Prodigal" tells a parabolic story of homecoming in a Southern small town. Connor, a preacher’s son, is cast adrift after becoming an accomplice in the Independence Day shooting of a convenience store clerk.... Read More