About the history and cultivation of apple trees, Priyanka Kumar’s informative, lively nature book emphasizes the importance of reconnecting with the natural world. Inspired by her family’s adventures foraging for wild fruit along... Read More

Efforts to increase voter turnout in Black communities are at the heart of the revealing political science text "Party at the Ballot Box". In 2020, COVID-19 and police brutality against Black communities necessitated Baltimore,... Read More

A girl encounters Yokai, creatures from Japanese folklore, in Jem Yoshioka’s spirited graphic novel "Folk Remedy". Maple works with her mother at the family’s apothecary in a remote town in Japan. Influenced by her friend Kunio,... Read More

The life and career of a prominent business and political figure is depicted in the graphic biography Elon Musk: American Oligarch. Elon Musk was born in South Africa, where his father and mother, Errol and Maye, had a relationship... Read More

A fourth grader adopts a creative way to remedy the gulf between how she feels inside and how others perceive her in Julie A. Swanson’s insightful novel "North of Tomboy". No one in Jess’s Northern Michigan rural family, church, or... Read More

In Gary Jackson’s stories-in-poems, superhumans of color navigate violence, visibility, and legacies in the fractured US. Rather than battling traditional villains, Jackson’s superheroes—the Invincible Woman, the Telepath, and the... Read More

"Meridian Rising" is Paul Burch’s inventive, entertaining historical novel about influential American singer and musician Jimmie Rodgers. Rodgers, with his distinctive “blues yodeling” style, influenced American blues, folk, and... Read More

One of Europe’s most visited centers is illuminated in Cynthia Paces’s erudite history book "Prague". Prague, Franz Kafka’s birthplace, has been called “the mistress of all Bohemia.” Here, this riverside site of political... Read More