In poet Mona Arshi’s debut novel "Somebody Loves You", Ruby, who was born to Indian parents in England, stopped talking at school. She goes to see various therapists. Her older sister, Rania, is artistic but morbid. The girls’ mother... Read More

"The Dragons of Decagon" is an ambitious fantasy novel for young readers whose principled creatures face challenge after challenge. In Sandra Kelly’s middle grade fantasy novel "The Dragons of Decagon", a community of dragons faces... Read More

"Seeking Shade" is a wonderful short story collection that speaks to the universality of feelings and circumstances. Relationships with others and oneself are the center of Frances Boyle’s meditative short story collection "Seeking... Read More

"Midland" is a resounding, redemptive novel about healing from a tragedy. In Ross Breithaupt’s measured novel "Midland", a young man works to heal following his brother’s suicide. In the 1980s, ten years after his brother jumped to... Read More

Nate returns with new middle school hijinks, puppy love, baseball, and Cheez Doodles in Big Nate: Aloha! Here, the sixth grade know-it-all attempts to woo a fellow classmate, Daisy, with his charm and infinite wisdom, only to strike out... Read More

In Kwon Yeo-sun’s novel "Lemon", the unsolved murder of a high school student reverberates through the years. Hae-on was killed on a summer night in 2002. But for those left behind, this was just the beginning. After the initial shock... Read More

“Health is a capacious category, inextricable from the entire social world,” says Anne Pollock in "Sickening", about how societies’ intricacies and ills are reflected back in the ways health is conceptualized, stratified, and... Read More

"Science and Beyond" combines science and philosophy to argue that a new understanding of the limitations of science is needed to avoid global catastrophe. Focusing on rampant misconceptions about science, researcher and teacher Rolf... Read More