Luna was the best dog a boy could ask for, brought home from the farmer’s market when the narrator was six. She taught him patience, openness in friendships, kindness, support, and love. Losing her devastated him to the extent that he... Read More

This awe-inducing ecological meditation in picture book form invites readers on a “never-ending journey through time and space.” Its ethereal, luxuriant illustrations overlay ghostly images of trees and people atop verdant landscapes... Read More

A luminous novel told in snippets, Susannah M. Smith’s "The Alchemy of Paradise" considers how best to live in the face of loss. An unnamed museum curator looks back on her idyllic childhood, wherein her father was an architect. While... Read More

Linda Cracknell’s captivating memoir concerns her inherited personal connection to the waters of coastal Scotland and England. As an inspired Christmas present in 2015, Cracknell and her siblings gave their somewhat housebound, elderly... Read More