Rebecca Lawton’s powerful and poetic "The Oasis This Time" celebrates water as a precious natural resource. Though its essays focus primarily on water in the western US, the book also explores humanity’s complex relationship with... Read More

Amalie Jahn’s "The Next to Last Mistake" is an insightful story about love and friendship. Tess Goodwin is happy with her life as a farm girl in Iowa. She is content with her cows, her chess club, and most importantly, her best friend,... Read More

It’s impossible to see inside someone else’s mind to achieve true empathy, but Barbara Moran and Karl Williams’s "Hello, Stranger" comes close. Born in the early 1950s, Barbara Moran felt out of place and lonely for the first few... Read More

Among the strands that shape a person’s identity, family may be one of the most influential. Sergei Lebedev delves into one such family in "The Goose Fritz", an impressive tangle of branches in a single ancestral tree. Kirill has... Read More

Nick Thorkelson tackles the formidable task of distilling the life and work of a respected modern philosopher into a well-paced graphic biography in "Herbert Marcuse, Philosopher of Utopia". Born in Germany, Marcuse was a World War I... Read More

Co-founder of the Sierra Club, John Muir is best known in environmentalist circles. Julie Bertagna and William Goldsmith delightfully illuminate his life in their graphic novel "Wildheart". From his modest beginnings in Scotland, Muir... Read More

Share the magic of world-renowned painter and ornithologist John James Audubon in this lively board book filled with soft colors and gently flowing rhymes. Young nature lovers will delight in identifying wings, beaks, eggs, and nests... Read More

Full of “girls who don’t apologize for who they are,” Mathangi Subramanian’s A People’s History of Heaven proves heaven isn’t about a distant perfection. Here, Heaven is a Bangalore slum where people are bound together by... Read More