A spunky girl saves her town’s night sky in Katherine Child’s wonder-filled fantasy novel "The Notted Island". The rest of the world has been visited by long-awaited Colour, but Last Island remains in black and white. To complicate... Read More

Framed through the metaphor of broken glass, Sara Ella’s lush fantasy novel "Glass Across the Sea" is a breathtaking story of love and redemption. Long ago in Allumeria, the benevolent Lamplighter gave humanity a miraculous lantern.... Read More

A middle school student daydreams and grows into her friendships and family relationships in the fun, goodhearted novel "The Scott Fenwick Diaries". Featuring bunnies, boys, and b’nai mitzvah, Kristin Nilsen’s entertaining... Read More

Both violent and feeling, "Of Wind and Wolves" is an intricate historical novel about warfare and love. Saturated with breathtaking cultural details, J. M. Elliott’s historical novel "Of Wind and Wolves" is a passionate, violent tale... Read More

Rebecca Anderson’s romance novel "Whispers of Shadowbrook House" is a haunting yet hopeful story of redemption and love. Pearl, a governess, loves Shadowbrook House, the manor that became her home after she was orphaned. Pearl also... Read More

Unflinching condemnations of past wrongdoings combine with critiques of contemporary missteps by those in power in the assertive political science critique "Surviving Canadian Chaos". Geneviève Gagné and Richard Girard’s bilingual... Read More

Set during the Great Depression, Terry Lee Caruthers’s historical novel "Red and Me" is a bittersweet story about a spunky girl and her bighearted hound. From the moment ten-year-old Marlene sees a skittish abandoned stray whose red... Read More

In Kady Ambrose’s fantasy novel All that Shimmers, an orphaned nursemaid yearns for love against the backdrop of World War I and the influenza epidemic. Vanessa knows she is fortunate to work as a nursemaid for vacationing families at... Read More