Salvatore A Trancucci III’s Sonny and Teresa begins in postwar Leavenworth, Kansas, where Sebastian “Sonny” Grasso has returned from Army service in Japan to play for the minor league Leavenworth Braves. Teresa is an Iowa-born student nurse at St. Mary’s when a baseball game introduces...

“Sometimes being unschooled is an advantage in art: you have more freedom to unlock your emotions . . . to not know when you’ve crossed a boundary that probably shouldn’t have been there in the first place.” Boundaries fade in Vaulted Night (A Novella of...

Tara Lynn Masih’s The Silent Women is set during World War II, when sixteen-year-old Song Holloway lives with her widowed mother in Andover, Massachusetts, after the Dust Bowl drove them east from Oklahoma. As local farming moves toward civilian wartime labor, Song takes a job...

Little Bear Betty by Betty Pasghetti is a charming picture book that brings children into a delightful woodsy world. This is the story of a little bear named Betty, who's having a little trouble saying the word ‘spaghetti.’ For whatever reason, it keeps coming out...