Robuta

This is the sort of book that stirs one so deeply that it is almost impossible to attempt to convey the impression it leaves. It is the story of today's...

A fictionalized saga of a real-life Hungarian refugee turned cat rescuer.

This girl is ready for a challenge!

In this debut novel from Hungarian-born Mora (the author now lives in Germany), a man who speaks ten languages but has no country to call home wanders the...

A string of narratorial mistakes in this Australian import gives children a chance to gleefully correct the adult reading it aloud.

A ripe, raunchy, romantic collection that laughs in the face of standard notions of female sexuality. Thirty-nine writers and artists, both famous and unknown,...

Nature essay meets true-crime tale.

Exuberant childlike paintings glow and almost run away with this eclectic grouping of 32 nursery rhymes. As the acknowledgements attest, Benjamin gathered...

A publishing professional makes her writing debut with a memoir that details her experiences with postpartum psychosis.

Dilenschneider (Power and Influence; A Briefing for Leaders) here continues his series on the fine arts of wielding power and exercising influence. While the...

An experimental novel weaving a present-day identity crisis around stories of our millennia-old ancestors.

An amusing original story about the journey of a woodcutter's warm but buttonless and shabby coat: it's stolen first by a thief who abandons it in favor of a...

Author Jerry Craft discusses private school, race, and the long and winding road to publishing success

A critical examination of U.S. immigration policies across the centuries as instruments of racism.

Bombay lawyer George Sansi's third case (The Ganja Coast, 1995, etc.) pits him against the unstoppably wealthy and unspeakably corrupt industrialist behind a...

A meditative travelogue through a part of Japan few outsiders ever see.

A very attractive book in four colors about a big fisherman and a little fisherman both of whom lled boats. Delightful text which tells what these fishermen do...

Lennie lives with his mother, who manages the Fairy Land Motel, and hides from his failures at school and friendship behind a cloud of TV fantasies, and though...

In 1944, the lives of a newspaper reporter, a newly ordained minister, Japanese internees, and a Japanese scientist intertwine around a mysterious illness.

A cow comedian seeks out a willing audience for her signature knock-knock joke.

A true-life thriller centers around a defiant woman who spied for Britain.

The saga of an Indian family constantly at odds with one another.

Franks explores themes of resilience, reinvention, and friendship in this nature-based third installment of a fantasy series.

The wonderfully fluent young author of The End of Nature (1989) here softens the lamenting, doomsday tone of that book, counting on impressions of sweet nature...

Polacco returns to the small-town scene of Meteor! (1987) for an affectionate, if stylized, boy-girl story. Peeeeee youuuuuuu, says Heater before the annual...

When Mr. Billingsly leaves the bathwater running and locks himself out of the house, Edward the fish finally gets the vacation he has been longing for. As the...

Nuts the Squirrel explains how mother trees protect seedlings in this picture book.

Tammy Collins feels like a nobody because her father, who left a year ago, hasn't been in touch with her since; her pain and confusion lead to name-calling,...

An expert chronicle of the CIA through the actions of its directors.

Haunting voices from a dark, disgraceful past, which afford a stunning and revelatory panorama of Japan's WW II experience. Counting its aggressions in...

A debut guide advises adults who want to help children eliminate bullying.

A trust-fund reject fights a crush on her hot boss by developing an even bigger crush on an even hotter private investigator.

A brisk and often scintillating discourse on the striking similarities between dreams and movies.

A mother compares her love for her child to the delights of nature they share together.

Constable and Valenzuela use quotes gathered through interviews with members of every sector of Chilean society to present a varied, if somewhat superficial,...

The creators of the sumptuous, if superficial, America: A Patriotic Primer (2002) follow up with a better, look-alike tribute to the achievements of this...

An established author of adult fantasy, who has also written realistic stories and a well received fantasy for young people (Red Wizard, 1990), tells a tale...

Kirkus Reviews talks to James Lee Burke about his new novel Wayfaring Stranger.

The last testament of the legendary filmmaker is a sprawling novel about the zombie apocalypse that dwarfs even his classic movie cycle.

Short poetic stanzas join jewel-toned illustrations to sing the satisfying story of Betty Mae Tiger Jumper. Deep in the Everglades in the 1920s, Seminole...

The guitarist and organist for the Zac Brown Band outlines what to do and not do when you are feeling sick.

A compendium of people, places, and things found in the Star Wars movies.

At first glance, two people could hardly be less alike than that irrepressible inventor, Junior Blossom, and Mad Mary Cantrell, rural equivalent of a bag lady....

In an alternate world where humans and dragons battle over fossil fuels, the tale of one slayer and his bard becomes a celebration of friendship, family,...

Born to extreme poverty in 1985 in war-torn Somalia, Iftin chronicles the extraordinary obstacles he overcame to obtain residency in the United States.

A cumulative story with rhythm, rhyme, and a bopping bunch of percussionists.

After enduring a humiliating incident, Izzy just wants to be left alone.

Inspired by the bright textures and patterns of the landscape on Canada's Prince Edward Island, Kuskin pens a brief poem about a mother capturing its visual...

These titles help young readers unpack the complicated emotions that come with relocating.

The executive editor of the New Yorker tells the stories of three female friends who defied the social conventions of their day to fight for women's rights and...

Chicken is the name Jimmie Little gave himself because of the fears he developed the summer after his father was killed in a mine accident, but readers will...

A precocious 12-year-old spends the summer trying to save her furry companion.

The Die for Me series about an American teenager involved with undead revenants in Paris concludes.

A rhyming picture book highlighting Black girls thriving.

The legends that shaped the mindset of ancient Rome.

Inspector Montalbano has extra difficulty solving a murder with biblical echoes when everyone around him gives him a taste of his own bristly medicine.

Why do humans make blood, if not for thirsty vampires?

An enforcer and a secretary search for a missing student in this explosive noir novel set in 1971 Mexico.

Devoted fans of Turtle in July (1989) will savor each minute spent with this companion collection of chronologically organized poems from the prolific and...

Tan, who made her name with The Joy Luck Club (1989), blends two favorite settings, Shanghai and San Francisco, in a tale that spans generations.

Like the best 18th-century fiction, this witty and wildly inventive novel revels in its implausibilities, and it does so with an attention to character and...

Photographer Diane Arbus (1923-1971) was addicted to danger, sex, and human oddities.

After two collections of stories published in England, Wales native Gebbie sets her first, deceptively loose-limbed novel in a Welsh mining town whose...