Tense and descriptive, Eva Jurczyk’s mystery novel "6:40 to Montreal" throws strangers together on a halted train to locate an elusive murderer. Agatha is a novelist who is struggling to write her next book. As a gift, her partner... 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
Jerome Charyn’s bracing biographical novel is about Maria Callas’s transformation from a New York daughter of Greek immigrants to a world-famous opera soprano. When she’s a teenager, Maria’s ambitious mother brings her to Athens.... Read More
Well-to-do but emotionally adrift East Coasters grapple with unsatisfying marriages, generational divides, and family secrets in Jennifer Anne Moses’s short story collection You’ve Told Me Before. In one story, a seventy-year-old... Read More
Janis A. Fairbanks’s reverential family memoir recounts her Native American childhood in Minnesota, wherein love outweighed poverty. Fairbanks belongs to the Fond du Lac band of the Lake Superior Chippewa people. She grew up the fourth... Read More
This new addition to the Can You Do This? series guides children through a soothing bedtime ritual, helping them to bid farewell to the day and settle in to sleep. Children are encouraged to fluff their pillows, stretch like a starfish,... Read More
Thomas Ortiz’s "Why We Struggle to Go Green" is a pressing exposé on the state of the world’s carbon economy. Examining what can be done to curb the rate of carbon emissions, including relying less on fossil fuels and more on wind,... Read More