Cheryl Strayed’s blockbuster Wild marked a formidable shift in the women’s memoir category, essentially taking Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love from a Contiki tour to a blistering bootcamp detox. Somewhere along the marketing way, these ... Read More »
August 26, 2021 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews
The Wolf Mother, the fifth book in the Mothers of Xsan series, follows a grey wolf from newborn pup to pack leader to Nox Gibuu (Wolf Mother). The wolf’s journey begins in the spring when ... Read More »
August 25, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books, Picture Books
If Netflix is looking for a thriller with suspicious deaths, greed, gold, government corruption, a secret underground cave, and an eccentric lead character, it would do well to consider first-time author Paul McKendrick’s brisk and ... Read More »
August 24, 2021 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews
Right now, with NASA flying helicopters on Mars and SpaceX planning new spaceports, off-world exploration is the thing. But for many kids, the airless void beyond Earth’s atmosphere can never quite match the fascination they ... Read More »
August 23, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books
Plenty of picture books teach young children how to share toys, but Hold That Thought! by British Columbian writer Bree Galbraith and Ontario-based illustrator Lynn Scurfield aims to demonstrate how kids can share ideas. The ... Read More »
August 18, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
The passage of time can shroud awareness of past horrors. What then happens when an atrocity is unearthed decades after the fact? Judith McCormack’s latest novel, The Singing Forest, confronts this question. Two Belarusian boys ... Read More »
August 17, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
For more than 60 years, girls have lived in peace on the Hill, an island shaped like a girl resting on her side. Sent by the mysterious Colony, they arrive in boats as infants and ... Read More »
August 16, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
Being human means being made up of countless invisible, uncontrollable processes: muscles contracting, neurons firing, cells dividing. Each of these processes has the potential to go catastrophically wrong, and many of us carry in us ... Read More »
August 11, 2021 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews
Nafiza Azad’s sophomore novel, The Wild Ones, is a powerful, unapologetically feminist YA fantasy. “We have the temerity to be not just women, but women of color,” the eponymous group declares. “We will not be ... Read More »
August 10, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
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