Cool tones of rippling waves and weathered wood contrast with patches of orange and pink in the splashy illustrations of this story about working together and never giving up. Gus wants to swim and refuses to accept his best friend... Read More

In "Good Morning, I Love You", clinical psychologist Shauna Shapiro proffers a three-month plan for cultivating gratitude and mindfulness through autobiographical writing. While enduring a messy divorce, Shapiro learned to say “Good... Read More

In Betty G. Yee’s historical novel "Gold Mountain", a young Chinese girl poses as her brother, going to work on a US railroad in his place. Ling Fan’s father is in prison for a crime he did not commit, and her aunt is plotting Ling... Read More

A book about flying that includes “all the different ways of defying gravity that have been discovered by humans over the centuries and by other animals over millions of years,” Richard Dawkins’s "Flights of Fancy" also includes... Read More

In Robert McGill’s speculative novel, complex social problems are met with an innovative, controversial technology that bursts onto the black market scene. After eighteen-year-old Regan decides to kill herself, she orders a toxic... Read More

Dani Baker is the dreamer and planner behind the Enchanted Edible Forest, three acres in New York that were cultivated over a decade to grow more organic, edible plants. "The Home-Scale Forest Garden" brings these permaculture gardening... Read More

Jennifer Dance’s based-in-truth novel "Gone but Still Here" follows a tragedy-scarred multiracial family as one of its members is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Mary feels herself slipping. Despite her career as a published... Read More

The third installment of the Vera Kelly mystery series, Rosalie Knecht’s "Vera Kelly Lost and Found" hits close to home as Vera travels the length and breadth of Southern California, fighting to recover her girlfriend and their future... Read More