Rabbit and Robot : the Sleepover
The Obituary Writer
“It is a rare novelist who can summon the creative nerve to plumb the depths of grief, but that's just what Ann Hood does here with such compassion and grace. The Obituary Writer is an unflinching exploration of loss and the love that somehow remains, one that both wounds and heals. This is a deeply […]
A Tale For the Time Being
“Magnificent . . . brings together a Japanese girl’s diary and a transplanted American novelist to meditate on everything from bullying to the nature of conscience and the meaning of life. . . . The novel’s seamless web of language, metaphor, and meaning can’t be disentangled from its powerful emotional impact: These are characters we […]
Eighty Days : Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-making Race Around the World
Publishers Weekly Two pioneering women hurtle across the globe—and into a changing future—in this stimulating true-life adventure story. Historian Goodman (The Sun and the Moon) follows the 1889 voyages of Nellie Bly, a New York World reporter who embarked on a headline-grabbing assignment to circumnavigate the world in a record-setting 75 days, emulating Jules Verne’s […]
Sticks and Stones : Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy
The New York Times These are not simple or satisfying stories, but Ms. Bazelon tells them with cleareyed compassion—even for the bullies…this authoritative and important book should not only be read by educators and parents alike, but should also be taught in law schools and journalism schools…
You're So Invited : Panic Less, Play More, and Get Your Party On
From her rural Missouri beginnings decorating tables with cherry-tree branches to her current and much-anticipated dinners and parties that always include a "cherry on the top" surprise for her guests, Cheryl Najafi teaches others to break the rules of "proper" entertaining.
Look Up!: : Henrietta Leavitt, Pioneering Woman Astronomer
Publishers Weekly Burleigh (George Bellows: Painter with a Punch!) investigates a woman astronomer who made a significant discovery in the 1900s when most women in her field “were human ‘computers.’ Their job was to record. And measure. And calculate. The women were expected to ‘work, not think.’” Henrietta Leavitt didn’t comply. Working at the Harvard […]
The Striker
“Fans of the Isaac Bell series will note the same exciting storytelling and vivid early twentieth-century setting, but they’ll also note something different: even though it’s set only four years earlier than the first Bell novel (2008’s The Chase), the book features a much different Isaac: younger, more impetuous, less calmly analytical . . . […]
Calculated In Death
“Robb excels.†—New York Journal of Books
The Storyteller
Some stories live forever . . . Sage Singer is a baker. She works through the night, preparing the day’s breads and pastries, trying to escape a reality of loneliness, bad memories, and the shadow of her mother’s death. When Josef Weber, an elderly man in Sage’s grief support group, begins stopping by the bakery, […]