Three young people learn that “when you have friends, you don’t have to do hard things by yourself” in this heartwarming picture book. In Elizabeth Turnbull’s picture book "Janjak and Freda Go to the Citadel", two children take a... Read More

In her memoir "Afterlight", Isa Milman recounts her struggles as the child of Holocaust survivors. Fraught with memories of the Holocaust, modern politics, and long family histories featuring better times, the book articulates a painful... Read More

Andy Zuliani’s haunting and compact debut novel weaves the stories of four troubled people into an unsettling view of the future. The book begins in the close future with Ana and Win, a best friend driver and scrubber pair. Ana, a... Read More

Malia Márquez’s intense multigenerational novel "This Fierce Blood" incorporates magical realism into its story of three women struggling with family and social expectations. In Vermont, Wilhemina marries Norwegian Johannes, rather... Read More

Robert Fromberg’s memoir "How to Walk with Steve" is about how his autistic brother became the stabilizing force in his life. Fromberg and Steve’s parents were artists, and their moods set the tone of their children’s early... Read More

The lush poems of "Songs for Solo Voice" narrate a recovery from a relationship that ended in a painful manner. James R. Whitley’s poetry collection "Songs for Solo Voice" concerns a broken relationship, which is addressed from the... Read More

In the fun and fabulistic picture book "PencilMan", technology is subverted by a sneaky team of information thieves. In father and son team Sean and Darius Ceasar’s whimsical picture book "PencilMan", global glitches might be solved by... Read More

In the epic fantasy novel How to Break An Evil Curse, a princess languishes after an evil sorcerer curses her: if she is touched by sunlight, certain death awaits. Princess Juliana is kept in the dungeon for the first nineteen years of... Read More