The stories that make up Octavio Solis’s "Retablos" are as taut, riveting, and immersive as the sunrise in a red rock desert. Be forewarned—they’re addictive. Retablos are brightly painted scenes on flattened pieces of metal... Read More

A captivating fantasy thriller rife with magic and intrigue, Christelle Dabos’s A Winter’s Promise is an exhilarating venture into a world of floating cities, illusions, and lies, where appearances and honeyed words mask a multitude... Read More

A terrifying vision of future warfare in the vein of Tom Clancy’s and Michael Crichton’s novels, Brian Nelson’s "The Last Sword Maker" follows a horrific outbreak in Tibet that proves to be a targeted weapons test—one that... Read More

The story behind the iconic image of Rosie the Riveter unfolds in rhyming verse and colorful illustrations that convey the strength, bravery, diversity, and patriotism of the hardworking women on the home front during World War II. The... Read More

In Karina Yan Glaser’s "The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden", the thoroughly charming Vanderbeeker children return, and they’re up to their same, always well-intentioned antics. The Vanderbeekers love the other tenants with whom... Read More

"Buddhism for Western Children" is a dreamlike literary novel that journeys into the psyche of cult living from the perspective of a child. Daniel’s parents, Ray and Cleary, bring him to Avadhoot Master King Ivanovich’s farm in Maine... Read More

A child struggles to understand the violence and social injustice they see on the news and in the community around them in a timely story that addresses racism, civic responsibility, and the concept of whiteness. Mixed media collages and... Read More

Dopamine has a lot to answer for. First discovered in 1957, it is variously known as “the pleasure molecule” and “the reward circuit.” In "The Molecule of More", an excellent work of wide-ranging popular science, Daniel Z.... Read More