Randall Fuller’s history book "Bright Circle" reveals the often-overlooked women at the heart of Transcendentalism. Focusing on the lives and works of a handful of extraordinary minds—Mary Moody Emerson, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody,... Read More

This inspiring picture book biography of environmental activist Rachel Carson will stir the inner conservationist in all readers. Born on a family farm in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Rachel grows up close to nature. When her dream of... Read More

Neil Taylor’s thriller "Anticipation" unravels a high-tech mystery in an unsettling near-future scenario. Riya is a math and machine-learning savant who lost her technology genius father in a plane accident. When she learns that his... Read More

In Alex Mullarky’s novel "The Edge of the Silver Sea", a city girl uprooted by her parents’ dreams tries to find her way home. Upon Blair’s first glimpse of her new home, Roscoe, from the ferry, she is stunned by its terrain, which... Read More

The lyrical, hard-hitting essays in Catherine Coleman Flowers’s collection "Holy Ground" synthesize history, science, and faith. The recipient of a MacArthur “Genius Grant” for her environmental activism, Flowers spent decades... Read More

Based on Dac Trung Tran’s childhood in Vietnam, this picture book illustrates the invisible hand of a mother’s love guiding her son’s steps. A child wakes early; his mother has already left for work, leaving him a note listing what... Read More

The history of the Kurdish people’s struggle for self-government is at the center of Nicole F. Watts’s riveting book "Republic of Dreams". The modern countries of the Middle East were created when the Age of Empires came to an end... Read More

In "The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told", Keith Richotte Jr. examines the legal history behind the federal government’s assertions of authority over almost six hundred tribal nations. This book exposes the fascinating, paradoxical way... Read More