Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s shimmering essay collection about fantastic creatures and plants, "World of Wonders", is shot through with memories of her peripatetic life and observations about race, motherhood, and environmental issues. Fumi... Read More

In the mystery novel "Disappeared and Found", a young woman looks for answers about her past and ends up finding more than she bargained for. Kerry Reis’s mystery novel "Disappeared and Found" involves an adoption story that might... Read More

Trevor Naylor’s "Cairo Inside Out", created in collaboration with photographer Doriana Dimitrova, began with the desire to capture the unique quality of Cairo’s afternoon light, but wound up accomplishing so much more. It reveals the... Read More

The real question posed by Terence Lester’s thoughtful, inspirational Christian book "I See You" is whether we are willing to see ourselves in the faces of the poor and forgotten. Lester’s work succeeds both at comforting the... Read More

The varied work of a Japanese manga artist-turned-painter is reproduced in the beautiful full-color book "The Art of Baron Yoshimoto". Yoshimoto’s career in manga began in 1959, and he made a name for himself in that field during the... Read More

Nancy Au’s exquisite short story collection "Spider Love Song and Other Stories" focuses on survivors—refugees, orphans, widows, single mothers, and village elders—who are caught between old world Chinese values and heritages and... Read More

Charles Davis’s eccentric, droll historical novel "The Measure of the World" has the establishment of the metric system at its core, and it proves perilous to seek standardization when most regard surveying with suspicion.... Read More

"Trafficking" rethinks the common, often ineffective, notions of how to achieve health to bring hope to those in need of relief. Robert Buckingham’s "Trafficking" explores the roots of patterns of damage in the body and compellingly... Read More