A spider-thief, a slave, and a woman with hidden darkness inside team up to save the world in Brenda J. Pierson’s Arabian-inspired fantasy novel "Joythief". Mariq is a pampered princess in Kuriza by day and a gifted spider-thief for... Read More

A group of siblings takes a tour through Grandma’s garden in this charming picture book with a nod to ecology. Blue-lined, sketchlike illustrations form delicate backdrops for large, colorful images of the flora and fauna found in the... Read More

In the mid-nineteenth century, the expanding United States worked to colonize the territory that’s now Arizona. To do so, it turned to the Middle East for expertise, inspiration, and camels. Natalie Koch’s "Arid Empire" shows how... Read More

Lisa Thompson’s memoir "Finding Elevation" is an exhilarating and harrowing chronicle of mountain climbing. Compelled at first by “blind ambition,” Thompson’s climbs ranged from Seattle’s Mount Rainier to treacherous K2, high... Read More

Part personal reflection, part interactive call for action, Tina Strawn’s "Are We Free Yet?" follows the queer Black activist’s search for freedom and details practical methods for self-reflection and healing. The book’s four parts... Read More

"The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein" trace the enigmatic genius’s 1925 tour through Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. Einstein agreed to the extended visit for academic and humanitarian reasons; he was also trying to end an affair... Read More

A Parisian Jewish girl is sent into hiding in the piercing Holocaust novel "At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf". Danielle packed her past away to live as Marie-Jeanne, an orphan and a good Catholic girl. In a French hamlet, she goes to... Read More

A depressed bear finds friendship with a hare in the wordless, emotional illustrated book "Bear". A bear with a cone stuck on his head struggles to free himself in a number of ways, but nothing works. A hare tries to help without... Read More