A Possibility of Whales

In her latest middle-grade novel, Victoria, B.C.–author Karen Rivers (The Encyclopedia of Me; Waiting to Dive) delivers a contemporary coming-of-age story fused with otherworldly marine elements. The protagonists in A Possibility of Whales are 12-year-old ... Read More »

March 5, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ They Say Blue

By Jillian Tamaki

With her first picture book, Jillian Tamaki displays a mastery of the form along with a sensitive understanding of the imaginative life of a small child. Tamaki is best known as the illustrator of the ... Read More »

March 1, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Putting Trials on Trial: Sexual Assault and the Failure of the Legal Profession

By Elaine Craig

Sexual assault victims contemplate the legal system with foreboding, their instincts for self-preservation sharpened by the experience of sexual assault itself. The punishing cross-examinations of victims in sexual assault trials are well known. Progressive changes ... Read More »

March 1, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Seb and the Sun

By Jami Gigot

Back in 2011, disgraced former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly made a baffling on-air argument for the existence of God: “Tide goes in, tide goes out,” he said to his guest, an outspoken atheist. “You ... Read More »

February 26, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Boy and the Blue Moon

By Ashley Crowley (ill.); Sara O’Leary

February 26, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Comedian

By Clem Martini

Prolific novelist, playwright, and screenwriter Clem Martini focuses on his beloved theatre world – the milieu in which he has spent much of his professional life – with this clever first-person novel about classical Roman ... Read More »

February 26, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

After the War: Surviving PTSD and Changing Mental Health Culture

By Adam Montgomery; Stéphane Grenier

The body of the little girl lies bunched on the ground, her arms splayed forward. A few feet away is the bloated body of a man who could be her father or possibly her grandfather. ... Read More »

February 22, 2018 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

A Girl Like That

By Tanaz Bhathena

Tanaz Bhathena’s debut novel begins with a car crash. Teenagers Zarin and Porus are killed on a highway in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Their ghosts linger above the wreckage, where they watch family members react to ... Read More »

February 22, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore

By Kim Fu

When Kim Fu’s debut novel, For Today I Am a Boy, appeared in 2014, it was met with acclaim and awards, as much for its story – about a transgender Chinese-Canadian boy named Peter fighting ... Read More »

February 15, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Journey of Little Charlie

By Christopher Paul Curtis

Christopher Paul Curtis’s latest book is a companion to both his Newbery Honor–winner Elijah of Buxton and its follow-up, The Madman of Piney Woods. Both of these earlier books take place in Buxton, the real-life ... Read More »

February 15, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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