"Refugium" is a brutal, thrilling novel about what it takes to become an apex predator. In Eric Nicholas’s thrilling novel "Refugium", a volcanic eruption casts the future of life on earth in doubt. The story is set more than 74,000... Read More

With guidance for overcoming trauma and finding peace within, "Secrets of Your Majestic Heart" is a holistic guide to self-healing. Catia Carrier’s spiritual self-help book is about identifying, understanding, and recovering from... Read More

Two high school students take tentative steps toward a relationship in Moosopp’s romantic graphic novel "Daybreak". Marcus and Cog are classmates from different friend groups who pass each other in the halls and around campus. Marcus... Read More

Laws regarding classroom science curricula are examined in Alexander and Harold Gouzoules’s deft history book The Hundred Years’ Trial. The Gouzouleses’ scientific and legal expertise informs this fascinating history, which moves... Read More

“The Texas grid is a land flowing with milk, honey, and countless ways to die” in Lyndsey Lewellen’s exciting novel "The Crier Stone", in which a girl works to save the corrupt city she escaped. In a post-apocalyptic wasteland,... Read More

Jane Kurtz’s touching memoir in verse "Oh Give Me a Home" is about belonging and sisterhood. In Maji, Ethiopia, young Kurtz and her family laid down roots after her father helped the community build a waterwheel. As a child, Kurtz... Read More

"Feed Us with Trees" is Elspeth Hay’s measured, engrossing exploration of nut trees as significant food sources, connecting sweeping concepts in world history, environmental studies, and agronomy. Unpacking food myths, the book... Read More

Delicate and detailed colored pencil illustrations enrich this meditative picture book that encourages appreciation of, and responsibility toward, nature. A child canoes down a jungle stream; shadowy deer trek through a misty forest.... Read More