Jane Marshall’s remarkable memoir "Searching for Happy Valley" unveils just what it is that makes a place “happy,” showing why the answer is so important for humanity and the planet. Marshall—feeling a gap within herself, longing... Read More

Vasily Eroshenko uses simple tales to explore powerful, complex morals in "The Narrow Cage and Other Modern Fairy Tales". Storytellers have long used fairy tales and children’s stories as a means of delivering radical, even subversive... Read More

In Akbar Hussain’s crime thriller "Truth Is a Flightless Bird", a man races to rescue a pregnant woman from Nairobi’s violent underworld. Nice would do anything for her unborn child, including smuggling drugs into Nairobi. Nice’s... Read More

Chris Dombrowski’s poetic memoir "The River You Touch" captures the natural beauty and drama of Montana. Dombrowski was nineteen when he moved from central Michigan to Missoula, Montana. He was enticed there by the writing of fellow... Read More

In Mushroom Foraging & Feasting, Victoria Romanoff shares tips, recipes, and charming anecdotes from her experiences collecting mushrooms. Though she found her first mushroom at four, Romanoff’s official foray into mushroom... Read More

Have you ever tried to breed storks, frogs, or beavers? Derek Gow has. An aspiring zoologist and a frustrated farmer, Gow turned his obsession with animals into a rewilding project on his three-hundred-acre British farm. A man of action,... Read More

Ken Kalfus’s novel "2 A.M. in Little America" takes a disturbing plunge into a troubled future. Before the US descended into violent chaos, Ron—fresh out of high school, indistinctive, and without a taste for factions or... Read More

Millions of years of evolution led to remarkable animal adaptations—adaptations that, as UK broadcaster and wildlife documentarian Patrick Aryee demonstrates in his enjoyable, informative book, scientists draw inspiration from,... Read More