Picture books encouraging wordplay make for fun read-alouds, and Was It a Cat I Saw? is an excellent, inspiring choice for either the home or classroom.
One of the unique strengths of Nell Freudenberger’s writing is how she integrates science in engaging, relevant ways, from the questions posed by climate change to seafloor mining to the struggle of modern medicine in the face of the unknown.
Omar Abed blends the frustrations and responsibilities that come with having a younger sibling with immensely creative wordplay, perfectly matched by Hatem Aly’s exciting, intricate illustrations.
Moving from the dot com era and early tech culture of the 1990s to a highly militarized vision of New York City in the 2040s, Memory Piece traces the ways three women’s lives converge and diverge.
Mixing memoir and reportage, Sarah McCammon documents the growing number of young people who, like her, have left the evangelical fold to navigate a new world.
Michael Norton’s fascinating The Ritual Effect encourages us to experiment with, explore and discover rituals to help transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.
Melancholic and nostalgic, Floating Hotel is an ode to the circumstantial bonds that form among the staff of a luxury space cruiser.
Listeners will be loath to press pause on this entirely unpredictable tale of a Greek island getaway gone wrong.
KT Hoffman’s The Prospects is a perfect baseball romance that overflows with love for the sport and its main characters.
Kristine S. Ervin’s Rabbit Heart is a shattering, rhapsodic true crime memoir that will get inside you.
Kristen Perrin juggles characters and clues with aplomb in the lively and twisty How to Solve Your Own Murder.
Kate Schapira offers a guide to transforming climate angst into collective action in her inspiring Lessons From the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth.
Jim Frangione convincingly endows each of Anton Chekhov’s character’s voices with the emotion—fear, lust, boredom—that makes their destructive choices inevitable.
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