In Lavie Tidhar’s clever and amusing novel in short stories "The Three Coffin Problem", a vampire judge and his otherwise unremarkable human sidekick travel through medieval Europe, solving a series of crimes involving the vampire... Read More

Centering an Armenian boy, N. T. McQueen’s outstanding historical novel "Never Hide from the Devil" roils around a genocide, as Turkish forces surround the city of Van. Most of the story takes place over one month in 1915, when the... Read More

In their informative book "Lessons for a Warming Planet", Alejandro Camacho and Brigham Daniels trace the history of environmental regulation in the United States from the colonial period through the early twenty-first century.... Read More

In Israel Moya’s engaging coming-of-age novel "Monarchs in the Wild", an aimless teenage boy living in a place with few options considers life after high school. In a small California town in the 1990s, Cal is about to graduate high... Read More

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