Crissa-Jean Chappell‘s new YA novel, Sun Don’t Shine, is at once a lyrical coming of age story and mesmerizing thriller that will leave you breathless as it follows Reece, a resilient sixteen-year-old girl who’s been on the run with her…
A novel of resources and exploitation, of protest and compromise, of dreams and sacrifice, Rachel Heng‘s The Great Reclamation follows Ah Boon from boyhood—when his discovery of plentiful fish around mysterious islands shores up his fishing village—through World War II, Japanese…
Dance Theatre of Harlem: A History, A Movement, A Celebration, captures the iconic company’s fifty-year history. Written by Judy Tyrus, a dancer with the company for twenty-two years, and Paul Novosel, a company pianist for ten years—both of whom became…
In The Bone Spindle (Razorbill, January 2022), debut novelist Leslie Vedder takes the fairytale we all know as Sleeping Beauty, and turns it completely on its head. In this imaginative retelling, not only does the damsel save the prince from…
The Long Lost Jules is an immersive royal mystery braiding a long-lost descendant of Queen Katharine Parr, espionage, and love. Amy’s life of quiet solitude as a London private banker is upended by the appearance of Leo, an Oxford don….
“My mother did not move from the bungalow’s doorway. Her apron, stained with baby burp and breakfast grease, seemed to pull down at her narrow shoulders. She brushed a dark sheaf of hair away from her face and boosted my…