Tim Newby’s biography of forgotten baseball great Pete Browning, whose Louisville Slugger nickname inspired the bat brand, recounts his athletic feats and troubled life. The repeat batting champion was one of the greatest hitters... Read More

A Japanese Canadian girl exercises her newfound courage in Jennifer Maruno’s historical novel "The Go-Between", about an island summer in domestic service. Sumi and her family live in Vancouver’s Little Yokohama during the 1920s. At... Read More

Franz Nicolay’s riveting book "Band People" is a behind-the-scenes investigation into the internal dynamics of rock bands. Nicolay notes that documentary The Beatles: Get Back was an eye-opener to many because it revealed what he and... Read More

In a dazzling interplay of words and images, B. A. Van Sise’s "On the National Language" conjures the richness of North America’s endangered languages, some of which are spoken by only a handful of elders. There are cultural... Read More

A trans woman guards her secrets and fights dark powers in Margaret Killjoy’s novel "The Sapling Cage". Lorel wants to become a witch, learn to use magic, and travel the world. But she was assigned male at birth, and witches are always... Read More

A poem written by US Poet Laureate Ada Limón at NASA’s request to accompany their Europa Clipper spacecraft on its trip to Jupiter’s moon Europa is given the picture book treatment in this title for anyone who wonders at the... Read More

In Marielle Thompson’s intimate and enlightened historical novel "The Last Witch in Edinburgh", a women’s community entrenched in subtle spell-work and relationships faces misogyny and witch-hunting. In the early 1800s, Nellie, the... Read More

Scholar Jordan D. Rosenblum’s fascinating text "Forbidden" is a history of how the pig became the litmus test for Jewish identity. In accordance with biblical dietary laws, the pig is only one non-kosher animal out of many. Still, it... Read More