THIS JUST IN: New Books

From the winner of The President Joseph R. Biden Lifetime Achievement Award, a spiritual guide to restoring yourself from racial trauma and committing to the long work of dismantling racism.

Inspired by an actual friendship between the French princess and a commoner this story offers a vivid portrait of life inside the palace of Versailles and a touching tale of two friends divided by class and the hunger for equality and freedom.

The story of a dandelion that survives against all odds, ingeniously told through shape poems (also called “concrete poems”) full of visual surprises. When it rains, letters fall from the sky; and when seeds scatter, words FLY!

In this heartfelt picture book, Rosemary Wells celebrates all that parents do with and for their children from the very beginning: talking and walking, feeding and reading, playing and dreaming, and more.

A favorite counting rhyme for generations of children. Learn to count with loving animal families in a sun-drenched meadow-from mother turtle with her one baby to ten little beavers embraced by their doting mother.

Through the eyes of ten-year-old Annemarie, we watch as the Danish Resistance smuggles almost the entire Jewish population of Denmark, across the sea to Sweden. The heroism of an entire nation reminds us that there was pride and human decency in the world

Ada's World War II journey continues in this sequel to The War that Saved My Life. Ada and her brother are forced to move into a cottage with the Lady Thorton and her daughter, Maggie. Life in the crowded home is tense. Then Ruth, a Jewish girl, from Ger

Anticipate, wonder, and rejoice during the sacred days of Advent and Christmas with this elegant keepsake volume of stories, poems, prayers, and art from beloved writers and artists through the centuries.  

Franciscan Lectio is for all those on a spiritual journey who long to see the world more beautifully and deeply and become more attentive and present.

N. T. Wright's For Everyone series has undertaken a tremendous task: to provide guides to all the books of the New Testament, and to include in them his own translation of the entire text.

Tackles head-on the difficulties and joys of family life, especially with a "special needs" child

In spare and simple words, Here: The Dot We Call Home helps children begin to think of themselves as both descendants and ancestors, and to comprehend that people of every place and time share one home, and the task of looking after it. 

A testament to the power of place in our lives that reflects on the idea of home, from the earliest imprint of four walls to the startling discoveries of feeling the strange ease of homes abroad, friends’ homes, and even momentary homes that spark desires

Poems,  tales, small stories with rhythm and blues and grace and bruise and laughter between the lines. A book of cadenced notes on the swirl of miracle and the holy of attentiveness; a book about children and birds, love and grief and everything alive, w