Brad Timm’s "America Is Wild!" celebrates the diversity of the US—its sheer size; its range of habitats; its range of plant and animal lives—with fun facts and gorgeous illustrations of nature. “From grizzly bears in Alaska to... Read More

In Jerome Charyn’s engaging novel "Silver Wolves", a teenager is thrust into a leadership role that clashes with his opportunities to build a better life. In the 1950s in New York, Jonah is held in a correctional facility for carrying... Read More

In Victoria Tatum’s timely ensemble novel "More Than Any River", generations of farmers and workers along the Sacramento River cope with formidable threats to their region and way of life. Covering more than a century, this... Read More

Photographer Virginia Mcgee Richards documentary text "The Inner Passage" shows how history altered a region and its people over centuries. The Inner Passage, introduced here as a series of canals and rivers along the coastline of South... Read More

In "Portrait of an Island on Fire", essayist Ariel Saramandi writes about how race, gender, culture, and environmental change drive life in Mauritius, wrestling with the ongoing impact of the country’s past. With righteous anger and... Read More

Art historian Roger Lipsey spent decades studying world art and encountering important pieces around the world. In "Eyes to See", a well-curated and contextualized virtual museum in book form, he highlights works that became meaningful... Read More

In Susan McCarty’s absorbing, nostalgic novel "2008", the lives of a group of estranged high school friends intertwine again fifteen years later. The story begins in 1993, on the night teenage Stevie, her boyfriend Sam, and her best... Read More

Sun Yung Shin and Mélina Mangal’s innovative dual biography Revolutions Are Made of Love, combines paired poems with beautiful illustrations. Activists James and Grace Lee Boggs built a lasting social justice and civil rights movement... Read More