US Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern’s insightful environmental history "Landing the Paris Climate Agreement" covers how the groundbreaking global pact came to be, explains its significance, and outlines the next steps.... Read More
Sandra Tyler’s intimate and affecting memoir "The Night Garden of My Mother" is about caring for her aged mother as she slid into frailty and dementia. Nestled within this fractured daily life of emergencies and interruptions, Tyler... Read More
Featuring two hundred magnificent photographs, Ian Wilson-Navarro’s "Dry Tortugas" reveals a marine sanctuary at the edge of the Florida Keys. Wilson-Navarro has a lifelong attachment to the seven remote islands and coral reefs of the... Read More
Young lovers run up against the limits of their abilities to control their own destinies in Johannes Anyuru’s melancholy novel "Ixelles". Ruth should know a lie when she hears one: she lies for a living, helping brands and politicians... Read More
A magenta alpaca with contrasting teal eyeshadow stands out against bookish backdrops in this whimsical picture book that sneaks educational animal facts into its colorful chaos. Children will learn that alpacas are sheared once a year,... Read More
An Armenian child of refugees muses on ancestral stories as vehicles of connection and identity in this moving picture book. Though far from the places her ancestors called home, she embraces the traditions they passed down to her, such... Read More
A poem written by US Poet Laureate Ada Limón at NASA’s request to accompany their Europa Clipper spacecraft on its trip to Jupiter’s moon Europa is given the picture book treatment in this title for anyone who wonders at the... Read More
Scholar Jordan D. Rosenblum’s fascinating text "Forbidden" is a history of how the pig became the litmus test for Jewish identity. In accordance with biblical dietary laws, the pig is only one non-kosher animal out of many. Still, it... Read More