Featuring short but detailed biographies, Nature’s Allies elevates past and present icons of the environmentalist movement. From John Muir to Wangari Muta Maati, this book covers major environmental figures roughly chronologically from... Read More

Let’s say you bought yourself a fancy movie theater back in the 1930s. You probably knew how to make popcorn and tear tickets, but you might not have been prepared to design newspaper ads, often on a daily basis, to get butts into the... Read More

This book will help children appreciate the ocean and the beauty and diversity of the world below the water’s surface. With lush, vibrant illustrations and appealing, friendly characters, Robert Scott Thayer’s "Kobee Manatee... Read More

This contemporary romance has dimension and depth. "Beneath the Stars", Lynn Charles’s wonderful contemporary romance novel, connects the dots between unlikely lovers Sid and Eddie as they try to mesh their lives’ eccentric orbits.... Read More

Satanic rituals, vestments dripping with blood, and a battlefield of corpses. It’s World War I, and the Inquisition is still hard at work protecting the Vatican from the heretics in its midst. This is the rich soil that Tarn... Read More

It’s a fight for resources on one side of Gas Mountain, where residents willing to share and forgive teach an important lesson to kids. A. M. Shah’s "Monster Fart Wars" is a silly and entertaining story for young children who enjoy... Read More

The dramatic sights and sounds of a Sri Lankan monsoon surround Malini and her formidable ox as they struggle to higher ground, in Alma Fullerton’s When The Rain Comes. A fascinating slice of Southeast Asian life, the tempo and... Read More

Friends and family warned them of malaria, dengue fever, and cannibals, but for retired lawyers Dennis James and his wife, Barbara, the lure of learning from indigenous people who still live much as humans had twelve thousand years ago,... Read More