Learn about kindness, sharing, listening, and how to be “buff” from the animals, both large and small, of the East African savanna. Songs, chants, rhymes, dance, and lots of dung beetle jokes will have hands clapping, feet tapping,... Read More

With a mind of her own and a desire to make the world a better place, Gloria Steinem, the equal rights activist and feminist extraordinaire, imagines, wishes, questions, learns, listens, watches, dreams, and speaks in this colorful... Read More

Buddhism is the backdrop for metaphysical excitement in "Karma Police", a graphic novel that casts monks as thoughtful enforcers. Their goal? To ease suffering without violence, if possible—but if needed, to destroy evil spirits that... Read More

California was in the death grip of a drought when endurance athlete Heather “Anish” Anderson set out to hike the 2,600-mile Pacific Crest Trail faster than any other hiker ever had. To do so, she would have to walk at least forty... Read More

With the importance of a free press and the rule of law rightly in the national conversation, Dan Bernstein’s "Justice in Plain Sight" is a timely release, detailing a California paper’s Supreme Court battles over the press and... Read More

In Becky Citra’s historical young adult mystery, "Murder at the St. Alice", Charlotte ventures from her home in British Columbia to the St. Alice, a Canadian resort hotel. Too poor to be a guest, Charlotte hopes to find work in the St.... Read More

"Mallko and Dad" is the tender, honest, and life-affirming personal account of a father and his boy, who has Down syndrome. "Mallko and Dad" strikes quickly and with searing frankness, as Gusti writes: “Sometimes having kids is like... Read More

Ian Roberts’s historical novel, "A Land Apart", mixes history and art to comment on how technology changes societies. In New France in 1634, somewhere along the banks of the Great Lakes, Totiri, an Iroquois war chief, trades with... Read More