Cherry, 36, had always been plus-sized, but also had always been confident. She grew up in a household of large women – her mother as well as her four sisters – who unapologetically embraced who they were and how they looked.

But Cherry — like ev...

This witty book for upper-elementary readers combines both science and language arts to introduce readers to some unusual creatures in symbiotic relationships.

Bulion explores various associations between organisms, asking:

“Protection, n...

This story is set in a future universe a lot like ours with some remarkable exceptions. For one thing, physics was controlled by actual machinery, called the “skunkworks,” which regulated the very precise interactions of matter, energy, and force. A secret group of highly specialized engineers was charged with safeguarding the machinery’s integrity, since even a minor change ...

Pablo Casals was born in December 1876 and grew up in Catalonia, an area in the northeast part of Spain, where he learned to love music from his father, who was the church organist. But when Pablo first heard the cello, he knew that was the instrument h...

This is the third and last book in a series featuring Cal Hooper, retired after 25 years with the Chicago Police Department and single since his wife Donna left him. Several years ago he bought a fixer-upper home in the [fictional] village of Ardnakelty in the west of Ireland.

He has slowly built a place for himself among his neighbors, working his way inside “the int...