The winkingly endearing stories of Nancy McKinley’s "St. Christopher on Pluto" function like a scrapbook, capturing life in a small Pennsylvania town through connected anecdotes that span decades. Before their neighborhood Halloween... Read More

Continuing her inventive reimagining of Beauty and the Beast, Brigid Kemmerer blends magic, romance, and the growing specter of war in "A Heart So Fierce and Broken". With the curse broken and the enchantress Lilith defeated, Prince Rhen... Read More

Three whimbrels with downy fluff feathers who’re just old enough to embark on their first migration get separated when wild winds and rain from a hurricane blow one of them off course. Based on the true story of a tiny whimbrel tracked... Read More

In 1917, Maria Bochkareva commanded the Women’s Battalion of Death, a unit in the Russian army that fought against invading Germany. In Amber Lough’s novel "Open Fire", this episode in women’s military history is the piercing... Read More

Delight in knowing that all the things you could possibly need, for all the eventualities you could possibly imagine, are right with you. "Just in Case You Want to Fly" is humorous and heartwarming, with rhythmic, rhyming verses.... Read More

In fifteen stories that mine different forms of torment, Sadie Hoagland gathers lost innocence, altered lives, and harsh memories—sometimes with elegiac, bald realism, and sometimes with eerie hyperbole and gruesome images.... Read More

Michael Shapiro interviewed thirty-two luminaries from the arts for "The Creative Spark". The book’s subjects include well-known and obscure personalities, with chefs, scientists, and musicians among them. Filmmaker Francis Ford... Read More

"Travels with Sushi in the Land of the Mind" is an intense and dramatic story in which curious children go on a magical adventure and confront powerful moral questions. Eduard Shyfrian’s religious allegory for young readers, "Travels... Read More