A young woman figures out how to belong in Kyle Lucia Wu’s novel "Win Me Something". Willa isn’t passionate about being a nanny, but it beats working at another coffee shop. Her latest charge is Bijou, a precocious nine-year-old next... Read More

Lance Olsen explores the past and potential future of human interaction in his spellbinding novel "Skin Elegies". The twentieth century was filled with grand and intimate tragedies: natural disasters, murders, abuses, accidents. These... Read More

A girl tells the story of how her mother killed her in Lily Hoang’s novel "Underneath". Arlene was only eleven when her mother, Martha, having already killed Arlene’s younger siblings, suffocated her in her own bed. Though Martha was... Read More

A young lawyer of shifting identities is presented with a transformative case in Judith McCormack’s devastating, poetic novel "The Singing Forest". Even before WWII began in earnest, Belarusian citizens disappeared into the Minsk... Read More

"The Blue Butterfly" is a vibrant period novel that reimagines the controversial love story of a classic film star. Leslie Johansen Nack’s absorbing historical novel "The Blue Butterfly" follows Marion, the vulnerable mistress of... Read More

A brother and sister are prompted to discuss environmental care in the wise picture book Sparky’s Electrifying Tale. In Janelle London and Matthew Metz’s picture book Sparky’s Electrifying Tale, siblings and their hamster learn... Read More

"One Pound, Twelve Ounces" is a memoir that covers the terrifying experiences of mothering a premature baby. Written with candor, Melissa Harris’s memoir "One Pound, Twelve Ounces" is both harrowing and joyful in covering at-risk... Read More

"Fifty First Dates after Fifty" is a genuine memoir that recounts a period of trying out new relationships and investigating spirituality. Carolyn Lee Arnold’s unconventional memoir "Fifty First Dates after Fifty" covers her midlife... Read More