A tender depiction of mourning, "Bigger than a Dream" follows a boy through a day spent with the spirit of his older sister, who died before he was born. Misty illustrations befitting the dreamlike quality of the boy’s adventure... Read More

Anna McGovern’s body, mind, and spirit book "Pottering" is an antidote to the ills of modern living. While many books offer trendy cures to the bustle and stress of modern life that involve going to far-off places or making drastic... Read More

War and politics rip a family apart in Marco Balzano’s historical novel I’m Staying Here. When Mussolini tries to Italianize their German-speaking town in Northern Italy, many of Trina’s neighbors hope that Hitler will invade and... Read More

In Makenzy Orcel’s "The Immortals", a grieving woman vents her feelings on death and loss. A Haitian sex worker cajoles her client, a writer, into recording the life of her protégé, who was killed in the 2010 earthquake. Despite the... Read More

Linda Schweizer’s "Cosmic Odyssey" is a thrilling account of the cosmological discoveries of the past century that “pulls back the curtain” on the brilliant, eccentric scientists who achieved those breakthroughs. This exceptional... Read More

An observant boy measures himself against tiny marvels, like sand on a beach, a cardinal perched on a branch, and his sleeping baby brother. In some senses, he knows, he’s getting big—but not when compared to mountains, yawning... Read More

In a culture that fetishizes male power, the heroine of "A Certain Hunger" is a rapacious, bloodthirsty monster—a perversion of every male fear. Dorothy is a food critic. She has exquisite taste and she hungers for new sensations. So... Read More

Some consider deserts vast expanses of barren wasteland; a politician once called them “kitty litter.” If anything can transform such opinions toward respect and appreciation, this multicultural collection of essays by desert-loving... Read More