Complemented by charming illustrations, "Smalltown City and the Spirit of City Hall" is Nancy Pearson’s illuminating chapter book about an edifying field trip that continues through a terrifying storm. Though they don’t know it when... Read More

A mother works to improve her government and her family in the revealing novel "Owls, Doughnuts, and Democracy". A woman with political ambitions teams up with a knowledgeable octogenarian to effect change in Jason A. N. Taylor’s... Read More

On the path to wisdom, traumas turn into hope in the thought-provoking domestic novel "The Inconvenient Unraveling of Gemma Sinclair". In Meg Myers Morgan’s visceral novel "The Inconvenient Unraveling of Gemma Sinclair", a woman’s... Read More

Love is a potent force in the surprising novel "Secrets at the Aviary Inn", in which unearthed secrets lead to new beginnings. A woman explores her family background in "Secrets at the Aviary Inn", MaryAnn Clarke’s engaging novel about... Read More

Following a sisters’ search to understand their mother’s death, "When People Leave" is a stirring novel. In Leslie A. Rasmussen’s domestic novel "When People Leave", family members learn valuable lessons about their relationships.... Read More

Focused but episodic, the novel The Things They Didn’t See is about the sharp realities surrounding grief. In Angela Shaeffer’s heartrending novel The Things They Didn’t See, a family navigates the serious fallout of a boy’s... Read More

Be Steadwell’s novel "Chocolate Chip City" is about gentrification and protest. It is also a hymn to Black love, Black queerness, and Black spirit that pulses with the joy of existence. The Jones sisters—Ella, Jasmine, and... Read More

Family, loyalty, and forgiveness are at the center of Leslie Gray Streeter’s humorous novel "Family and Other Calamities". Dawn, a self-made Black journalist, is the founder of the online entertainment publication Glitter. Her hard... Read More