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BIG SISTER, LONG COATThe day is supposed to be fantastic, but nothing goes as planned. First, the sun beats down and it’s unbearably hot—“legs-stick-to-the-seat...
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THE SIXTH LEVELTraditional leadership culture, per the authors, has stressed power, profit, and competition. While this approach can yield short-term gains,...
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WHEN TWO STARS COLLIDEEighteen-year-old Cinder Kato, who has Japanese and Scottish ancestry, performs music incognito on a popular video-sharing platform under the...
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DEAD DOG ROADAfter earning a master’s degree in counseling, debut author Black took a job at a center for abused children. Seeing firsthand the dilapidated...
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THE CLUBJaxson is an eighth grader who loves playing the trumpet. He’s an only child with a humorously overconfident best friend named Logan. Jax...
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A WILD WINDY NIGHTHardly has Ricky’s mom ushered the little one to bed and pulled up the covers than, with a “Whoosh-Whoosh-Ka-whoosh,” the howling wind blows the...
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THE FRAGILITY OF LIGHTEverything’s looking up for Joshua Fitzpatrick and Sylvia “Sunny” Zielinski. The two, who hit it off in college, get married the summer after...
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FIRE AND DALMATIANLily Dreyfus is a successful adoption coordinator at Bassettville, New Jersey’s Forever Friends Animal Shelter, but she moonlights as an amateur...
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THE UNIFORMWhen readers meet Alfie Baliato, the central character of this poignant, powerful novel, it’s 1968. He and his fellow New York City police...
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SONS OF CHINATOWNJournalist Wong, author of Yellow Journalist: Dispatches From Asian America , first visited his father’s rural village in Guangdong province in...
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BABY BABY BABYWhen a baby starts to cry in the back seat, Mommy pulls over to figure out what’s going on. But after checking the diaper, the mirror, and the...
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THE EXILED QUEENOn her 10th birthday, Princess Andrada of Kerta is ordered by the father she’s never met to begin a traditional boy’s education—her late...
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THE ZOO-CHOO TRAINAs the sun sets, a brown-skinned child with curly black hair, acting as the conductor of the titular Zoo-Choo train, ushers each of a zoo’s...
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HAIR ON FIREIn “A Ghost Story,” one of the pieces in this quirky collection, a married man goes on his yearly solo retreat to a remote beach community to...
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FENIX AND THE FIREWORK FLIERSThe Silver Birch Forest animals begin gathering to celebrate the solstice. The highlight of the celebration is the “Firework Fliers, a squad of...
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THE OCEAN INSIDE MEWhen Shore arrived at the prison where he would serve for three years, he was a self-described “small little Brown thing, surrounded by large,...
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GREEN WORLDThe only child of Holocaust survivors, Ephraim grew up with a volatile, controlling father whose anger blighted her life. Both parents, deeply...
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CYBERCHICKS IN LOVEIn Australia, in the year 1998, Barb and her friends have been crushing on German actor Siegfried P. Hinkelheimer. When they can’t get their...
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WORRIES BIG AND SMALLYoung children have many questions; here are some answers to help alleviate fears and embarrassment. This book tackles a slew of “what ifs,”...
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WUHANThe global responses to the Covid-19 pandemic will be debated for many years, but this book provides a granular account of how it started. Yang,...
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THE REAL GATSBYRathbun grew up knowing very little about her maternal grandfather, George Gordon Moore—at best, she had access to “sketchy details” about the...
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF ENGLANDAs the author points out, England has been claimed as historical model of capitalism by both Adam Smith and Karl Marx, though each, of course,...
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INSIDE THE MIRRORJaya and Kamlesh Malhotra are both following dual tracks, Jaya studying medicine while exploring her interest in painting and Kamlesh studying...
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THE CATS' MUSEUMIn 1729, Catherine the Great hears mice in the basement of her beloved Hermitage Museum, which holds a vast art collection. The next day, she...
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BLANKOnce upon a time, Pippa Jones was a big name in the book world. Her debut novel was a smash and was made into a movie. But since then, she...
