Friendly, informative, and backed by both professional and personal insight, this book truly captures the benefit of animals in our daily lives. In the heartwarming and engaging Dog As My Doctor, Cat As My Nurse, animal-human health and... Read More

Yasmeen raises uncomfortable reminders of how close to home racism lives. "Yasmeen Haddad Loves Joanasi Maqaittik" follows a well-intentioned teacher who arrives in an isolated Inuit community, determined to make a difference in her... Read More

Julie Maroh examines relationships of every sort in the fictional graphic novel "Body Music". Across a variety of settings and characters, French author Maroh turns her eye to love—its physical aspects, which seem to have inspired the... Read More

Don Quixote and Candide Seek Truth, Justice, and El Dorado in the Digital Age is fanciful, intelligent entertainment, better sipped than gulped to enjoy the full effect. The picaresque novel gets a fresh spin in Stefan Soto’s... Read More

Sympathy is created for these disparate and complex characters in a way that is worth savoring. Set in the late 1990s, Heather Bell Adams’s Marantha Road takes a seemingly standard setup of Southern poverty literature and burnishes it... Read More

Mounting tensions make this psychological thriller hard to put down. Sarah Stovell’s "Exquisite" is a dark, sensual, and twisted character study, rife with murky motivations and sinister revelations. Best-selling author Bo Luxton has... Read More

Organized into roughly contiguous “lectures,” "Facing Gaia" is an unusual and academic examination of climate change and humanity’s place in nature. In contrast to many other emotional, urgent, and even panicky examples of... Read More

In this sweet romance, author Kate Watson explores family, obligations, and the weight of the past. "Seeking Mansfield" is about one young girl’s journey to discover her own desires after suppressing them for so long. Sixteen-year-old... Read More