In 2009, journalist Euna Lee traveled to South Korea and China to make a documentary about North Korean defectors. However, her p

Jill Bialosky’s sister Kim took her own life at age 21, shattering meaning for family and friends.

Sharing the Road is a thin

When 8-year-old Noah confronts an overwhelming problem, he runs away from home to a nearby forest and discovers a magical toy shop and

In 1919 India, 15-year-old Rosalind, who is British, learns about Gandhi and India’s desire for independence from Britain. 

Elizabeth Hay, winner of the Giller Prize for her first novel, Late Nights on Air, is an even better writer in

Many Calvinists were surprised to read in Time magazine that "The New Calvinism" was one of the “10 Ideas Cha

Eleven-year-old Minni and her twin sister, Keira, are daughters of interracial parents. Minni is light-skinned, while Keira is da

In 1890, when Dr.

Heather Sellers recounts a life twisted by prosopagnosia, a neurological disorder that keeps her from recognizing people’s faces

In 1660, Bethia and Caleb meet on their native island, Martha’s Vineyard, and strike up a clandestine friendship.

Hoping to help rebuild war-torn Bosnia, Kathryn Bolkovac became a “rent-a-cop” for DynCorp, “global leader in the bu

Six-year-old Martha’s life irrevocably changes when she is taken from her Cat Lake First Nation community in northern Ontario an

Originating in Japan, manga is a comic book style loved the world over.

Michelle LeBeau is growing up in her grandparents’ home in Deerhorn, Wis., hoping that her war-veteran father and her Japanese m

During Abby Johnson’s eight years with Planned Parenthood, she “was leading an unexamined life, filled with inconsistencie

Debbie Macomber helps readers see with fresh eyes the people whom God has placed in their path and “to realize how each has shap

At Your Baptism is a lovely board book that explai

Thirteen-year-old Gabriella, a Gentile, loves literature. But the political climate of 1932 Berlin is not conducive to books that

A metaphor is a powerful literary tool that brings readers to a deeper level of understanding.

Brian Greene is our generation's Carl Sagan: a scientific genius who happens to have a gift for analogy and explanation.

In 1968, 11-year-old Delphine and her younger sisters visit Cecile, their derelict mother. When Cecile sends them to a summer day

A substitute teacher wanders into an elementary-school classroom, tells a series of dazzling, illuminating, heartbreaking falseho