"Shopomania" is Paul Berton’s satirical dive into the history and psychology of modern consumerism. Making the case that people’s innate desire to obtain more land, food, and materials is the main driver of human advancement,... Read More

Kingsley the dog decides the time has come for him to own a human, but he has trouble finding the right one in this picture book about the unconditional love between pets and their people. Whimsical details tucked into the pencil and... Read More

Laura Burges’s soothing children’s guide to Buddhist meditation, "Zen for Kids", shares how Zen practices can improve lives. Beginning with Siddhartha Gautama’s biography, this introduction to Zen Buddhism includes Asian folktales,... Read More

Drawing on historical records and imaginative recreations, "By Water" is the graphic biography of a leading figure of the Radical Reformation. In the early sixteenth century, Felix Manz, a Swiss Anabaptist, protested against the baptism... Read More

In Shay Galloway’s novel "The Valley of Sage and Juniper", sisters struggle for independence and to keep their family’s ranch. Isaiah and Genesis were so named by their devout mother, Addie. Isaiah is defiant yet mystical, with the... Read More

Rachel Sarah’s "Climate Champions" profiles fifteen women who are fighting against climate change from every avenue of science activism. Covering journalists, professors, conservation biologists, and researchers—many of them from... Read More

Filled with dramatic, often violent, seventeenth-century court and clergy intrigues, Bronwen McShea’s "La Duchesse" is meticulous—the “first fully researched modern biography of Vignerot.” Vignerot would have been a minor rural... Read More

Though Charles Darwin is the more celebrated founder of theories of evolution and natural selection, his brilliant colleague Alfred Russel Wallace worked out these ideas, too. James T. Costa’s entertaining illustrated biography marks... Read More