An encouraging writer’s workbook with a bevy of suggestions to get one’s creative juices flowing, "The One Week Writing Workshop" is a helpful, exercise-laden guide. Karin Adams’s personalized storytellers’ guide "The One Week... Read More

A girl comes into her inherited power by taking great risks in the mystical novel "Memories of Lucinda Eco". In Scott T. Barnes’s powerful fantasy novel "Memories of Lucinda Eco", a teenager encounters dark magic and fights to protect... Read More

A troubled prosecutor reconsiders her definition of justice in Simone Buchholz’s thriller "The Kitchen". During a sweltering Hamburg summer, garbage bags filled with body parts keep turning up in the bay. Riley, the public prosecutor,... Read More

A grieving son reconstructs his dying father’s painful life story in Feurat Alani’s historical novel "I Remember Fallujah". Rami has always been a secretive father, spending long hours working and refusing to indulge the curiosity of... Read More

A story of a family’s resilience and individuality, "Becoming Hungarian" is an affecting memoir that’s flush with political and historical insights. Erika Reich Giles’s memoir "Becoming Hungarian" chronicles her parents’... Read More

Narrated with Carpenter’s characteristic humor, the memoir-in-essays "Paris Lost and Found" addresses French bureaucracy, scenery, and joie de vivre, but also the distinctive challenges of living between two countries. Set against the... Read More

Dreamy watercolors and charming animal characters make this primer on collective action accessible and engaging for children. A sheep searches for a way to share her dream of a better world with her friends even though she is unable to... Read More

S. L. Roman’s historical novel "One Year, One Night" is centered by a teenager’s World War II diary. In 1960, Annie returns to Millside for a World War II commemoration that a famous actress is expected to attend. While there, she... Read More