What would we do differently if we knew where we were going? Crackling with detail, Courtney Kersten’s memoir "Daughter in Retrograde" explores her relationship with her mother through the lens of horoscopes, astrology, and other... Read More

Jane Goodall’s research center on the shores of a Tanzanian lake pulsates with the passions, perils, and promises of the 1960s in Dale Peterson’s "The Ghosts of Gombe". The book seeks to solve the mysterious disappearance of a... Read More

Geographer Mark C. Serreze admits that it took him a while to fully understand how human actions cause drastic environmental changes in the Arctic. However, when mounting evidence helped him reach his “epiphany,” he shifted gears... Read More

Edna Lewis earned a reputation as a groundbreaking chef, both for excelling as an African American woman in the New York restaurant scene and for her work popularizing Southern cooking through cookbooks like The Taste of Country Cooking.... Read More

Tom Pelton’s "The Chesapeake in Focus" introduces the complicated story of the region’s environmental restoration. The nation’s largest estuary straddles a wide swath of the eastern coastline, and is impacted by agricultural and... Read More

In Michael Fishwick’s "The White Hare", local legend has it that a woman who dies abandoned by her lover can return in rabbit form to seek revenge. Who this woman might be and who she’s come for is a subject of village debate. Young... Read More

Thirteen-year-old Susan begins Adina Rishe Gewirtz’s "Blue Window" “because Susan is the one who names things.” One long December evening, during the span between day and night that she calls “blue window time,” her family room... Read More

"All Out of Pretty" is a horrifying story about a young girl with nothing left to lose—and what she does in her desperation. Andrea lives a normal life. She worries about school, has plenty of friends, and enjoys the fringe benefits of... Read More