It all started with a visit to a garden run by local college students; seeing the colorful heirloom tomatoes, Charles Mann planted his own and began pondering how tomatoes are emblematic of New World species that spread around the globe.... Read More

In this award-winning fictionalized autobiography, eighty-nine-year-old writer and educator Marguerite Andersen shares her struggles with the choices she made when love for her children came into conflict with her longing for freedom,... Read More

An abused wife with a small, strange child; real estate agents with plenty to hide; a pregnant cop with a complicated love life; a shadowy stalker, and several gruesome murders make this third book in Sofie Sarenbrandt’s Emma Sköld... Read More

In this unusual offering by one of Japan’s greatest novelists, a nineteen-year-old has run away from his Tokyo home and is walking through an endless pine forest in a “fog of unsettling anxiety,” accompanied only by familiar... Read More

NBM Publishing continues its popular and critically acclaimed “Louvre Collection” series of graphic novels with "Cruising through the Louvre", an inventive offering by David Prudhomme. Other entries in the Louvre series have focused... Read More

James Joyce’s life, like much of his work, can be something of a mystery, a puzzle to untangle. Alfonso Zapico gives a thorough and masterful pictorial retelling of Joyce’s life in James Joyce: Portrait of a Dubliner: A Graphic... Read More

"Choose Your Days" is a story about finding wonderment and joy. When Corky is born, Old Bear gives her the keys to her days and a list to mark her dreams and deeds. Her life speeds by and as she is nearing the end she goes to Old Bear... Read More

"Goldilocks and the Three Polar Bears" is a simple story about a difficult topic. A little girl moves with her father to Alaska, where he works on an oil rig. As she and her father fly over the rig she is very excited to see three polar... Read More