Sonderbooks Book Reviews

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May 2, 2026

Another delightful cozy fantasy novel from Heather Fawcett, Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter features a young widow running a cat shelter in 1920s Montreal who discovers an illegal magic shop in her basement.

Happy Reading!

—Sondra Eklund

Nonfiction

Toilets of the World

written by Patrick Kinsella
and Lonely Planet editors

Sacred Belonging

by Kat Armas

Children's Nonfiction

Goldfinches

by Mary Oliver
art by Melissa Sweet

Smash, Crash, Topple, Roll!

by Catherine Thimmesh
illustrated by Shanda McCloskey

Fiction

Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter

by Heather Fawcett

Harriet Tubman
Live in Concert

by Bob the Drag Queen
read by the Author

Children's Fiction

Orris and Timble
Star Stories

by Kate DiCamillo
illustrated by Carmen Mok

Halfway to Somewhere

by Jose Pimienta

Old Favorites

The Man Who Counted

by Malba Tahan

Teen Fiction

The Brightness Between Us

by Eliot Schrefer

Silenced Voices

by Pablo Leon

Teen Nonfiction

Stealing Little Moon

by Dan SaSuWeh Jones
read by Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Trans History

by Alex L. Combs and Andrew Eakett
read by a full cast

Picture Books

While We're Here

written by Anne Wynter
illustrated by Micha Archer

Two Artists, Grandad and Me

by Charnelle Pinkney Barlow