The girls of Bunk 9 are fun and informative as they explain the mysteries—and debunk the myths—of growing from a girl to a woman. Girls on the cusp of puberty will find a wealth of information and answers to top-of-mind questions in... Read More

"Eden" is an atmosphere-rich, thoroughly satisfying story of family connections. Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg’s "Eden" is an inviting and cozy family saga, the perfect book to settle in to. Being a widow is tough enough, but even tougher... Read More

Silverberg’s science fiction stands head and shoulders above other works in the genre. The short stories in Robert Silverberg’s "First-Person Singularities" are inventive, sublime, and endlessly entertaining. All eighteen pieces are... Read More

This food study forwards a fascinating human history of a region like no other. Gregory McNamee’s fascinating Tortillas, Tiswin & T-Bones: A Food History of the Southwest is a wonderfully absorbing foodie saga that drills down to... Read More

On one level, the book is a classic murder mystery; on a deeper level, it echoes humanity at its most primal. Nature may be red in tooth and claw, but in Wajdi Mouawad’s outstanding novel, "Anima", it’s humans who are claw-deep in... Read More

Don Quixote and Candide Seek Truth, Justice, and El Dorado in the Digital Age is fanciful, intelligent entertainment, better sipped than gulped to enjoy the full effect. The picaresque novel gets a fresh spin in Stefan Soto’s... Read More

Absorbing, memorable, and moving, "Echo of the Past" is a fully imagined tale of lives caught in the jaws of history. The tragic and entwined histories of twentieth-century Russia and Germany are brought poignantly to life in in Polina... Read More

"Dreams of Re-Creation in Jamaica" is valuable for bringing a little-known aspect of WWII to public awareness. Even World War II buffs who think they’ve read it all will encounter fresh revelations in this tale of Jews who fled the... Read More