Dark matter, black holes, dark energy: with all this shadowy terminology in play, it’s no wonder when laypeople find cosmology off-putting, so What’s Eating the Universe? illumines the mysteries of quantum physics in a nonthreatening... Read More

In this important picture book for historical fiction collections, Opal grows up in Greenwood, a Black neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma where everyone gathers on Sunday to hear the good word. Today, everyone’s looking forward to the... Read More

Kevin Dann’s "Enchanted New York" is a historical walk down Manhattan’s magical memory lane. Revealing Manhattan to be a site of protracted enchantment, the book’s eight chapters are named for the type of magic and spiritual... Read More

"Ghosts in the Schoolyard" is a chilling must-read investigation of racism in Chicago’s education system. One might think the days of black students fighting for their right to attend quality schools are long gone, but "Ghosts in the... Read More

Absorbing, memorable, and moving, "Echo of the Past" is a fully imagined tale of lives caught in the jaws of history. The tragic and entwined histories of twentieth-century Russia and Germany are brought poignantly to life in in Polina... Read More

This engaging, conversational book dispenses life advice for farmers and others who seek to live close to the earth. *Letter to a Young Farmer *is an accumulation of wisdom with a large dollop of humor and a conversational tone that will... Read More

Delight in the presence of a poet so sane as to make you want to sit at her feet, lean against her knees. And yet, Jean Hollander’s poetry won’t stroke your cheek with comforting missives—her work is commanding, powerful, spare as... Read More

The advice is not sugar-coated—rehab is tough, and life after rehab can be tougher–but beyond the battle, promises the work, is a reclaimed world. Out of The Wreck I Rise: A Literary Companion to Recovery uses the power of some very... Read More