Outcasts with magical abilities find love and friendship in Angel Martinez’s "Mage on the Hill". Toby Jones’s inability to control his magical powers is killing him. Desperate for help, he turns to the magical guild of Montchanin,... Read More

Parenting without punishment, threats, rewards, or bribery seemed like a fantasy until Wendy Thomas Russell enrolled in Ty and Linda Hatfield’s Parenting from the Heart course, which draws from Adlerian psychology and its offshoots. In... Read More

Steven Petrivelli and Sean Dillon’s charming "Sweetie" is a delightful tale about a self-made superhero told through dynamic and unique art. In a world filled to the brim with superheroes, headstrong Maggie wants nothing more than to... Read More

Adam Popescu’s "Nima" is a heroine’s journey wherein the call to adventure is shaped by feminism as a choice. Set against the backdrop of Mount Everest, this portrait of a young Sherpa woman is a breathlessly climbing, thrillingly... Read More

Both a memoir and an exploration of a mother-daughter bond, "The Goodbye Diaries" is a moving story told through two voices: those of a then-teenaged daughter and her terminally ill mother. Using both of their journals as source... Read More

With our national parks under threat, books such as this one are more welcome than ever, coming as a reminder of what we stand to lose when short-sighted policies remove the protections placed around America’s sacred, wild places.... Read More

Danish scientist Rikke Schmidt Kjaergaard started to feel unwell on a New Year’s Day walk with her family. After a cascade of increasingly violent symptoms, the thirty-eight-year-old was rushed to the hospital. Her heart stopped and... Read More

Karin Anderson’s "Before Us Like a Land of Dreams" is a narrative extravaganza that ponders the bristled roots of ancestry, unbroken by time or place, and the muddled truths and fallacies of family history that inform who we believe we... Read More