In this punny picture book about lessons learned from a passive friend, a canine is befuddled by the girl he sees at the park each day, immobile on a bench as the world moves around her. She seems as indifferent to him as she is to the... Read More

A popular middle school student navigates family betrayal and a crush on another girl in Melanie Florence’s heartfelt novel "Jazz Davies Skips a Beat". Jazz struggles with feelings of abandonment and loneliness after her mother leaves... Read More

In Sam K MacKinnon’s tender novel "The Body Riddle", a transmasculine illustrator struggles with discrimination and self-doubt as they grow into a better version of themselves. Lex is stuck. Their freelance work has dried up, their... Read More

Brianna Lambert’s holistic spiritual guidebook "Created to Play" is about spiritual formation via playfulness. Rooted in Christian scripture, Lambert’s book leads overworked, overwhelmed believers to discover how their lives might... Read More

Robert B. Marks’s comprehensive natural history text Deep Time in Mono Basin concerns a sensitive lake ecosystem in northeastern California. The Mono Lake Basin, at the edge of the Sierra Nevada, serves a vital ecological role as one... Read More

Budding entomologists and science lovers will delight in this whimsical story about a girl with an uncommon interest. Encouraged by her entomologist mother, Lydia studies, collects, and draws every kind of bug, from the stinky to the... Read More

Exploring humanity’s relationship with, and dependence upon, technology, Trevor Paglen’s prescient science text "How to See Like a Machine", which is written from an industry insider’s perspective, overviews generative AI to expose... Read More

Jennifer Newens’s tiki cocktail guide "Thursday Night Tiki Lounge" includes drinks that are sweet, sour, strong, sometimes spicy, and mostly rum-based alongside gorgeous photographs. The book begins with a short history of tiki’s... Read More