This work of creative nonfiction may be among the year’s best pieces of environmental drama so far. Following the journey of a local nonprofit as it fights to save a unique dune ecosystem, it features both true-to-life recounting of... Read More

Boasting a multitude of fun facts, interactive games, and activities, Maggie Li’s The Amazing Dinosaur Detectives: Facts, Myths and Quirks of the Dinosaur World dives into the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods with humor and... Read More

The name Audubon is synonymous with ornithology, but it’s the man behind the famous wildlife paintings that’s revealed in Fabien Grolleau and Jérémie Royer’s beautiful graphic novel, Audubon: On the Wings of the World. The... Read More

The wave of interest in artisanal and fermented foods has made locally crafted cheeses, beers, and pickles a hot commodity at restaurants and farmers markets. Now preserved meats are bleeping bright on food lovers’ radar—those... Read More

Pity the poet who writes of salt ponds and claw marks on beech trees without the requisite natural-world familiarity. Better: pity her reader. There is no doubt that Dede Cummings’s hiking boots have suffered the ravages of Vermont... Read More

There’s a lot to love about the bloodhound couple at the center of this cozy mystery. Michelle Cox’s cozy mystery "A Ring of Truth" brings 1930s Chicago—with its hot jazz, art deco buildings, cigar-chomping gangsters, and big... Read More

"The Axe and the Tree" strives to show the deep connection between the Griffiths, their faith, and the people of Zimbabwe. "The Axe and the Tree", by Stephen Griffiths, is an exhaustive recounting of the author’s parents’ journey... Read More

Family myth and superstition mingle in the Ozarks in the talented new novel "The Legend of the Albino Farm". One part Bridge to Terabithia, one part Bag of Bones, Steve Yates’s novel is full of haunting scenes and stories that blur the... Read More