Jessica Anne Bratt is a branch manager at Grand Rapids, Michigan, Public Library. She and three other librarians recently launched an initiative called Libraries4BlackLives, pledging support for the Black Lives Matter movement and hosting... Read More
Teacher and award-winning playwright Brenda Faye Collie introduces feisty high-school junior Loresha in Almost A Senior, the first volume of a planned trilogy. As the newly elected student-body president at fictional Major Horris High... Read More
As a small business, we’ve been very fortunate (so far) to have been able to weather the Covid-19 pandemic without horrific consequences. Like you, we’ve had to be light on our feet and roll with some unexpected challenges. But a... Read More
The man who invented it hated it and wouldn’t have one in his house; alarmists predicted it would ruin our eyes, corrupt our morals, and probably rot our teeth. The great educator and philosopher Robert Hutchins, tongue firmly in... Read More
Facts / Mission and genres: Founded over thirty-five years ago, “New World Library publishes books and audios that inspire and challenge us to improve the quality of our lives and our world. The ultimate goal of the company is a... Read More
No world conflict incites as much raw passion as the one between Israelis and Palestinians. We watch Palestinian civilians die in the ongoing Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip and, even in the comfort of the United States, can fly into... Read More
Pureland / Zarrar Said /
Global Collective Publishers /
Hardcover $24.95 (304pp) /
978-1-73440-190-5 /
Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / In Zarrar Said’s epic novel Pureland, a servant turned physicist wrestles with science,... Read More
“Look. It’s empty out there, & cold. / Cold enough to reconcile / Even a father, even a son.” This epigraph from the poet Larry Levis launches this novel, set in northern Michigan. With prose at once lyrical and plainspoken,... Read More