Kirkus Reviews

CASTAWAY ON THE ISLE OF DEVILS

Sixteen-year-old Alice Drinkard finally gets to share an adventure with her fat...

TO WALK HUMBLY

It’s 1952, and a project of so-called “Urban Renewal” is in full swing in Bronz...

DEAD OF NIGHT

Thirty years ago, Dani Duprie, having spotted an unknown woman giving her the o...

GET DRESSED!

Canales spotlights 10 distinct historical events or periods, among them the Gre...

PROXY WAR

Alex Mercer’s childhood has been far from idyllic. Orphaned as a child in south...

THE TALE OF MR. CROCODILE TAKES TEA

The author returns to the world of anthropomorphic animals, this time in a tran...

DISPATCHES FROM THE COUCH

The author suffered sexual abuse at the hands of Mr. Jay, a next-door neighbor ...

ONE IN FOUR

Comeback Kids features seven actors whose careers were cut short by their addic...

THE SILVERSMITH'S PUZZLE

After exposing clever killers in colonial India, at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fa...

SPEAK TO ME OF HOME

Rafaela grows up in a palatial house in San Juan, but when her father loses his...

DEATH ON THE ISLAND

Reid’s atmospheric fiction debut creates suspense through a trio of murders, ea...

OPPENHEIMER AND THE ATOMIC BOMB

Though significantly shorter than the prize-winning American Prometheus (2005),...

ATANA AND THE JADE MERMAID

The opener’s understated, cleanly drawn art and straightforward storytelling co...

SKIN AND BONES

In truth, it’s quite a while before Mike takes center stage because half of the...

MALCOLM LIVES!

Born Malcolm Little in Nebraska in 1925, he grew up in a household that openly ...

UNDER ONE RAINBOW

Three young Black friends mingle amid the crowd, “our hearts…full of love / as ...

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