"The Seed Apple" is written with a delightful mix of modernity, ancient history, and lore. Sheldon Greene’s "The Seed Apple" is the multicontinental story of a family whose improbable history crosses barriers of time and religion.... Read More
A unique portrait of a time and place populated by fearless people, this reimagination of an uncommon woman is powerful. Elizabeth McCourt Tabor was a nineteenth-century legend who married a silver magnate and gained notoriety for her... Read More
Somewhere between feelings of latent crisis and ennui, Maribeth Klein has a heart attack. Only she doesn’t realize that it is a heart attack—not until the emergency room attendants roll her into surgery and away from any sense that... Read More
Featuring clear, well-written, and concise arguments, this book is ideal for both climate-change believers and skeptics. There are many explanations available of how global warming works, but few are as clear, comprehensive, and visually... Read More
You are hereby advised not to imagine or assume anything about this book based on its title, such is its unexpected, extraordinary wit and erudition. *Queer’*s overarching goal is to dispassionately explore how contemporary views of... Read More
In "Triple Love Score", sometimes life gives you what you want but not always in the form you expected. Brandi Megan Granett mixes romance, poetry, and Scrabble in the charming "Triple Love Score". Through realistic characters who face... Read More
This survivor’s story is less about enduring than it is about living vibrantly. Annette Libeskind Berkovits’s The Unlikeliest of Places is an incandescent biographical tribute to the author’s father, Nachman Libeskind, an eternally... Read More
This genre-defying spectacle of color, form, and humor looks like an art book but acts the part of a playful, kid-friendly graphic novel masquerading as a field guide to animals. A conservationist and maestro of modernism and... Read More