“Small, determined” Su-Kyoung lives in a lovely village beneath a mountain. Her people fish each day for the food they need, taking no more than that from the nearby stream. Then a visitor calls their practices into question,... Read More

Bird-watching, meditations on wildlife, and a move to Northern Greece animate Julian Hoffman’s poetic memoir "Lifelines", about the varied meanings of shelter and survival on a changing planet. Weary of commuting to hectic London,... 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

South African scholar Julia Martin’s mesmerizing and evocative memoir covers sponge diving from an anthropological perspective. While on sabbatical, Martin traveled to the Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean Sea to study Porifera, whose... 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

About the abiding love of two young men across lifetimes, January Sun’s fantastical graphic novel "The Reaper and the Waiting" is steeped in Chinese culture, mythology, and history. Dwelling in the liminal space between life and death,... Read More