A whimsical memento mori, Julia Ridley Smith’s essay collection "The Sum of Trifles" sifts through the stuff of an inheritance in search of peace. When Smith’s parents died, they left behind a home full of antiques, trinkets, and... Read More

A haunting fairy tale about the worlds built by simple acts of generosity, this picture book follows a girl and her seven imaginary horses—some of whom are blessed with gifts like homes, and dreams, and shades of being, but one of whom... Read More

This nature- and community-centered self-help activity book for youngsters introduces gratitude as a continual, life-giving practice. It suggests that being grateful can begin the moment you wake up, and can extend into each moment of... Read More

A young lawyer of shifting identities is presented with a transformative case in Judith McCormack’s devastating, poetic novel "The Singing Forest". Even before WWII began in earnest, Belarusian citizens disappeared into the Minsk... Read More

Indigenous populations are targeted by wanton forces in Cherie Dimaline’s startling dystopian novel "Hunting by Stars". In the desolate near future, people are unable to dream. It’s a fatal condition that only Indigenous people seem... Read More

"This Blood Means Life" is a resplendent and intoxicating fairy tale that mixes pagan magic and the feminine divine into stories we only think we know. Four fairy tales are infused with new life in Mindi Meltz’s sensual, affecting... Read More

A dazzling graphic novel about the power of a child’s imagination, "Nothing" shows that worlds exist in what’s unsaid. Every day is an adventure for those with boundless imaginations, as a boy shows in Michael Molinet’s exciting... Read More

A lost girl sets off on an adventure to help her new forest-dwelling friends in this magical tale. A girl chases her lizard friends into the rain forest and finds herself on a series of magical adventures in Ronald Meade’s early reader... Read More