Since the early 1980s, documentary filmmaker Kathryn Ferguson has crossed the border between the United States and Mexico to tell stories, and she recounts those experiences in "The Haunting of the Mexican Border". She writes about the... Read More

It’s encouraging to see a children’s book focused so specifically on the value of kindness, and one that gives so many definitions of what that term can mean. In the picture book What Does it Mean to Be Kind?, author Rana DiOrio has... Read More

This book takes a unique approach to a World War II memoir, combining not only the stories of a father and son, but both men’s years apart writing about the subject. When the Nazis invaded Belgium early in the war, Otto Schrag was... Read More

Photographs that demonstrate various taijiquan techniques and movements provide a needed visual representation of this physical activity. In The Mind Inside Tai Chi: Sustaining a Joyful Heart, Henry Zhuang provides an overview of... Read More

In the early 1960s, Larry Dunlap made a choice plenty of others have dreamed about—moving out to California to join his friends in a singing group. In Night People, he recounts the early days of trying to make it, when the dreams of... Read More

Hopkinson gives her characters various levels of reliability, rooting magical realism in reality to create a surreal collection of stories. "Falling in Love with Hominids" collects eighteen short stories by Nalo Hopkinson and... Read More

Kravitz’s canine narrator describes the events around him without understanding their full impact, offering a new perspective on the Holocaust. With "The Jewish Dog", Asher Kravitz succeeds in the difficult task of finding a new... Read More

When Barbara Amaya was eleven, she ran away from her suburban Virginia home, where she had been sexually assaulted by both her father and her brother. Her early teen years soon became a nightmare of prostitution, drug addiction, jail... Read More