Children/Young Adult
Esfir Is Alive
Esfir Manevich, a pre-teen child, lives in Kobrin (then in Poland, now Belarus) in 1936. When she is bullied in…
Anna and the Swallow Man
This is the author’s first book. Anna and the Swallow Man is a dark and beautiful novel about the complexities…
Loving vs. Virginia
Editors' choice
Racial relations in the United States are fraught today, but segregation experienced by African Americans in the not-so-distant past was…
Book of the Night: The Black Musketeers
In what is sure to be the first installment of a new series, Oliver Pötzsch takes readers on a wild adventure…
Kings of the Boyne
I have to confess that before reading this story I knew nothing of the events it re-tells—but I decided to…
Escape from the Past: At Witches’ End
Imagine playing a virtual computer game in which once you clicked on “Master Level,” you would instantly be transported to…
The Lost Girl of Astor Street
When Piper Sail’s best friend, Lydia, goes missing in 1920s Chicago, Piper refuses to leave the investigation entirely in the…
Tyrants and Traitors
Niklas is a teenage Israeli shepherd who runs afoul of the wretched Philistines. Before long he finds a daunting destiny…
Dreaming the Enemy
Editors' choice
Dreaming the Enemy starts when 19-year-old Johnny Shoebridge, an Australian country boy from a hard-working, traditional community, returns from Vietnam.…
Anton and Cecil: Cats Aloft
Cat brothers Anton and Cecil are headed home after an adventure involving a missing mouse, when they arrive in Chicago…
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