Lies about Black People / How to Combat Racist Stereotypes and Why It Matters / Omekongo Dibinga / Michael Eric Dyson, contributor / Prometheus / Hardcover $26.95 (232pp) / 978-1-63388-878-4 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Lies... Read More

The Last Pomegranate Tree / Bachtyar Ali / Kareem Abdulrahman, translator / Archipelago Books / Softcover $22.00 (400pp) / 978-1-953861-40-5 / In Bachtyar Ali’s novel The Last Pomegranate Tree, a man’s search for truth leads to... Read More

This Is Not the Jess Show / Anna Carey / Quirk Books / Hardcover $18.99 (304pp) / 978-1-68369-197-6 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Anna Carey’s young adult novel This is Not the Jess Show starts in a familiar fashion, with a... Read More

King of the World / The Life of Louis XIV / Philip Mansel / University of Chicago Press / Hardcover $35.00 (608pp) / 978-0-226-69089-6 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / France’s Louis XIV, known as “The Sun King,” has long... Read More

Stand Up! Be an Upstander and Make a Difference / Wendy L. Moss / Magination Press / Hardcover $14.99 (112pp) / 978-1-4338-2963-5 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Psychologist Wendy L. Moss’s Stand Up! is designed to help teach... Read More

Mr. Penguin and the Fortress of Secrets / Alex T. Smith / Peachtree Publishing Company / Hardcover $16.95 (288pp) / 978-1-68263-130-0 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / When hundreds of hamsters go missing, only a penguin, a ninja... Read More

Why Do Computers Know So Much? Jennifer Shand Daniele Fabbri, illustrator Flowerpot Press Hardcover $8.99 (20pp) 978-1-4867-0384-5 Technology is an ever-increasing influence on young people’s lives, and it’s likely to continue into... Read More