Lisa Thompson’s memoir "Finding Elevation" is an exhilarating and harrowing chronicle of mountain climbing. Compelled at first by “blind ambition,” Thompson’s climbs ranged from Seattle’s Mount Rainier to treacherous K2, high... Read More

"The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein" trace the enigmatic genius’s 1925 tour through Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. Einstein agreed to the extended visit for academic and humanitarian reasons; he was also trying to end an affair... Read More

A depressed bear finds friendship with a hare in the wordless, emotional illustrated book "Bear". A bear with a cone stuck on his head struggles to free himself in a number of ways, but nothing works. A hare tries to help without... Read More

"Slime" is Susanne Wedlich’s lively scientific study that underscores the importance of the slimy life forms and inert viscous interfaces that enervate the biosphere. “Slime” is the catchall phrase for all the slippery, gooey... Read More

In the sixteen sumptuous historical stories of Leah Angstman’s "Shoot the Horses First", outsiders and pioneers face disabilities and prejudice with poise. An orphan shipped from Brooklyn to Illinois hopes to meet the right adoptive... Read More

Chaucer scholar Marion Turner’s experimental work of literary criticism charts a character’s lasting influence on international culture. A character in Geoffrey Chaucer’s fourteenth-century masterpiece The Canterbury Tales, the... Read More

In Astrid Roemer’s novel On a Woman’s Madness, a Black woman struggles to find happiness in a world designed to push her down. Noenka, already a misfit because of her race and family history, becomes a true outcast when she leaves... Read More

The “Cold Rush” is coming, professor Matthew Birkhold heralds, and its quarry is icebergs and the freshwater supplies they could ensure. "Chasing Icebergs", with its affable blend of history and predictions, probes the ins and outs... Read More