Narrating Russia’s eighteenth-century push toward the Bering Strait from the perspective of Laurentz, a captain’s son, this illuminating picture book brings history to life via beautiful realist illustrations that focus on wide, wild... Read More

First couching printed books, and libraries, as the apotheosis of human curiosity and learning, this enlightening picture book focuses on the Nazi regime’s efforts to squelch such wide knowledge via the burning of books. Such horrors... Read More

In the vivid historical novel "Dancing on the Brink of the World", a man comes into his own in a place teeming with frontier potential and multicultural influences. In Marianne T. Rafter’s intriguing historical novel "Dancing on the... Read More

The religious treatise "Creation, Life, and Purpose" is rigorous in its analyses of thorny biblical topics and apparent contradictions between faith and science. Mike A. Bills’s compelling religious treatise "Creation, Life, and... Read More

Narrated by a mouse pup whose mother’s special day is fast approaching, this heartwarming story is about trying to find the perfect present for the person you love. The young mouse considers a pine cone, a flower, a feather, and a bit... Read More

In this imagination-awakening, sympathetic picture book about homesickness and becoming your own heroine, Ren is crushed when she learns that her family is going to emigrate, leaving her grandmother, whose story times are a highlight of... Read More

This sympathetic, energetic storybook-length graphic novel focuses on a bright hero with possible attention deficits: for Sid, getting out of the house is no easy feat. Though Sid is encouraged to get ready for the park, their efforts... Read More

Nou, a Hmong girl, loves her home, though some people are determined to make her family feel unwelcome. Following an act of vandalism, Nou reflects on the racism that they, and other Hmong people in their community, face. She begins to... Read More