A spirited young spiritualist rejects confinement in Victoria Mas’s electrifying historical novel The Mad Women’s Ball. At the end of the nineteenth century, otherwise fast-modernizing France still considers anomalous women to be an... Read More

At a time when the West was still wild, an aspiring businessman opened a daring new travelling attraction, with gas balloons capable of carrying humans into the sky. He broke records across the West and, eventually, the world. His feats... Read More

From T-Pain, the adored Grammy-award winner for whom music and drinking have always gone hand in hand, and mixologist Maxwell Britten come "Can I Mix You a Drink?", an instantly nostalgic cocktail guide. While each of the cocktails in... Read More

In this sparkling, hushed story about making spaces for less glamorous feelings, too, a boy understands and respects his sadness enough to create a place for it to peacefully exist. Visualized as a cozy haunt, decked out with flowers and... Read More

Pops of color and creatures with quizzical expressions make this story about how all is connected a visual and meditative delight. A child is cautioned not to disturb a butterfly that’s feasting on a flower; they’re warned that if... Read More

A gentle boy encounters a lonely fawn while he’s traipsing through the woods he loves. He “whispers into soft velvet, ‘I’ll carry you home.’” His mother cautions him that he’ll have free Alba, once she’s strong enough to... Read More

This gorgeous illustrated book sings to every adult’s inner child. It pairs dreamlike art with trilling reminiscences of childhood joys and growing pains, painted in the vibrant colors of the wide, wild world. A girl settles on a stack... Read More

A father wrangles with his impending grief in a steampunk, Wild West alternate universe in Lavie Tidhar’s dazzling novel "The Escapement". There was once a boy so beloved that his father delighted in every memory they shared, from... Read More