Joey always felt different. By nine years old, she was ready to tell her family the truth: “I am not a boy.” Though nervous about being rejected or misunderstood, she summoned her courage to reveal herself on Shabbat. Instead, she... Read More

Three Mississippian brothers abandon their Confederate posts, only to encounter fresh miseries on the road home, in Philip Fracassi’s riveting horror novel "Sarafina". Ethan, a twin and the youngest of three brothers, tires of the... Read More

Anna Nerkagi’s subtle but powerful novel "White Moss" captures generational shifts among Siberia’s indigenous Nenets people. Among the Nenets, nomadic reindeer herders in the polar tundra, little is easy. Traditions clash with the... Read More

"She’s Such a Liar" is a powerful feminist tract that reveals the underlying hypocrisy and corruption of traditional approaches to the subject of incest. Susan Osborn’s persuasive feminist tract "She’s Such a Liar" explores the... Read More

Embedded with references to children’s classics, including the works of Lewis Carroll and A. A. Milne, this jaunty, irresistible picture book follows a singsong adventure through the funky-animal-populated wilds. Children will be... Read More

Two adorable gnomes head off for a seaside adventure in this joyous picture book that models appreciation and care for nature. Little Gnouf is so excited to see the ocean that he spends days reading about it before he and Mirabelle... Read More

The poignant short story collection "King the Wonder Dog" is infused with retrospective melancholy. In Eleanor Lerman’s compelling short story collection "King the Wonder Dog", free-spirited artists, musicians, and wanderers of the... Read More

Polly Barton’s insightful stream-of-consciousness novel "What Am I, a Deer?" is about a translator’s search for meaningful connection. An unnamed Japanese translator works at a computer game corporation in Frankfurt. Eccentric in her... Read More