This colorful picture book teaches lessons about kindness and slowing down to smell the roses, all in an upbeat read-aloud format. JouJou McVue is a young girl who unintentionally teaches her father a lesson one Saturday morning about... Read More

With an original and compelling story line, this is an unnerving yet engrossing sci-fi story. Three seemingly disparate story lines unfold in "Dark Matters", a science-fiction story that takes place sixty years in the future. Technology... Read More

This is a thorough and in-depth view of the last emperor of Ethiopia, told from the unique vantage point of his great-nephew. The full set of titles of the man known as the last emperor of Ethiopia, whose reign ended in 1974 after nearly... Read More

Reminiscent of stream-of-conscience writing, "shanghai.shanghai.shanghai" is intensely rewarding reading. Alex Kuo’s "shanghai.shanghai.shanghai" starts out straight forwardly enough. Ge is an arts writer for an English-language... Read More

West Africa is brought vividly to life in this enthralling, fast-paced noir. Private investigator Souleymane “Solo” Camara is living in his dead father’s hometown of Bamako, Mali, burdened by, and trying to deal with, ghosts of his... Read More

Humor and a quick wit make Parker’s memoir a pleasant, breezy read. Will Parker shares memories of his lifetime in this mostly lighthearted telling of growing up in his native Australia, and later travels and adventures around the... Read More

This true story of a young American who disappeared during the Spanish Civil War is well researched and engaging. A young college-age man, raised in privilege in New England, believes he’s found true meaning for his life when he begins... Read More

Real-life adventures of a Flying Fortress gunner take us into the lives of WWII air crew. Only a year and a half after his high school graduation, a small town Ohio boy finds himself part of a ten-man crew dropping bombs on the enemy in... Read More