A girl born with an uncommon gift faces ostracization and exploitation in the thrilling historical novel The Midwife’s Touch. For women in China’s family, pale hair is a foreboding sign. It hints to a magical inheritance stretching... Read More

In Trang Thanh Tran’s horror novel "She Is a Haunting", a woman discovers that the house her father is restoring is haunted. Jade and her sister Lily travel to Vietnam to spend the summer with their estranged father. Jade has ulterior... Read More

Part personal reflection, part interactive call for action, Tina Strawn’s "Are We Free Yet?" follows the queer Black activist’s search for freedom and details practical methods for self-reflection and healing. The book’s four parts... Read More

Onomatopoeic lines and bright bursting colors relay the story of a little beaver who wants to do more than merely chomp wood. She loves the rhythms of the world and cherishes her forest neighbors—but she also dreams in color and yearns... Read More

The US splinters apart in "Divided We Fall", a dystopian political thriller about political divisions run amok. In Carl Berryman’s future-set dystopian political thriller "Divided We Fall", the United States is in the midst of another... Read More

Haunting and surreal, this fantasy tale for young readers follows four siblings on a melancholy trip to visit their ailing mother. On the way, they stop to gather flowers; they enter into a mysterious palace that threatens to hold them... Read More

One night, the moon crashes to Earth, shattering into pieces across the mountain where Luna and Poppa live. With the help of the forest animals—and a few far-flung birds—Luna and Poppa repair the moon, leaving their mark before... Read More

The magic system of Jamie Pacton’s delightful, haunting fantasy novel "The Vermilion Emporium" pays tribute to the Radium Girls, who met tragic ends. Quinta is an orphan who fears she will never live up to her mother’s magical life.... Read More