"Shopomania" is Paul Berton’s satirical dive into the history and psychology of modern consumerism. Making the case that people’s innate desire to obtain more land, food, and materials is the main driver of human advancement,... Read More

Kingsley the dog decides the time has come for him to own a human, but he has trouble finding the right one in this picture book about the unconditional love between pets and their people. Whimsical details tucked into the pencil and... Read More

In Sharon Sochil Washington’s "The Blue Is Where God Lives", a Black woman makes discoveries about her family and herself. Eighteen months after her daughter’s murder, Blue is still lost in a haze of grief and guilt, borne of both... Read More

Beth Moore’s moving memoir "All My Knotted-Up Life" concerns the troubles and triumphs of Christian ministry. This confessional, powerful, and testimonial story of Moore’s life begins in her childhood, treating her hardscrabble roots... Read More

Rachel Sarah’s "Climate Champions" profiles fifteen women who are fighting against climate change from every avenue of science activism. Covering journalists, professors, conservation biologists, and researchers—many of them from... Read More

Filled with dramatic, often violent, seventeenth-century court and clergy intrigues, Bronwen McShea’s "La Duchesse" is meticulous—the “first fully researched modern biography of Vignerot.” Vignerot would have been a minor rural... Read More

Though Charles Darwin is the more celebrated founder of theories of evolution and natural selection, his brilliant colleague Alfred Russel Wallace worked out these ideas, too. James T. Costa’s entertaining illustrated biography marks... Read More

Olga Onuch and Henry E. Hale’s "The Zelensky Effect" is part biography of the charismatic president, part sociopolitical history of Ukraine from its 1991 independence to the recent Russian invasion—“more fundamentally about... Read More