A Korean American girl helps her mother prepare to host Thanksgiving in this warm, celebratory picture book about the joy of intermingling cultures. Though the two sides of her family have quite different tastes, the girl hopes to... Read More

A traumatized psychologist’s story is used to illuminate and humanize general therapeutic guidance in the soothing allegorical novel "The Fire That Makes Us". In Shahrzad Jalali’s Jungian allegorical novel "The Fire That Makes Us", a... Read More

An admirable police chief does his best to defend vulnerable migrants in the timely mystery novel "The Nameless Dead". On a Greek island, a police inspector works to solve the murders of Syrian women at a refugee camp in Leta Serafim’s... Read More

Its illustrations reminiscent of children’s film classics, with lovely touches of winter starshine and frost, this cheery Swedish picture book follows a woodcarver as she lovingly crafts a Christmas gift for her granddaughter: a red... Read More

In David Ewald’s riveting science fiction caper "The Thief of That", an anxiety-ridden aspiring novelist is given the chance to travel backward in time. At thirty, underemployed Ravel worries that the opportunities he deserved all... Read More

Tackling the complex issue of climate change, Ani Dasgupta’s "The New Global Possible" offers hopeful solutions. The book’s optimistic introduction sets the stage for six fact-packed chapters documenting the climate crisis.... Read More

David Haynes’s complex short story collection Martha’s Daughter is about the everyday situations and relationships of working-class Black Americans. Set in the metropolitan flatlands of Missouri, the stories are imbued with the... Read More

Imaginative illustrations evoke the gamut of human emotions in this picture book about understanding and expressing feelings. Apt nature metaphors make the complex topic of emotions more digestible; children can borrow the language... Read More