Woylies, jerboas, and other creatures populate Tracey Hecht’s winsome Nocturnals companion The Nocturnals Explore: Unique Adaptations of Nighttime Animals. Dawn, a red fox, invites her friends Tobin the pangolin and Bismark the sugar... Read More

A Kiowa woman returns to her Oklahoma reservation in D. M. Rowell’s ominous novel "Never Name the Dead". Summoned home by an unusual phone call, Mud takes leave from her Silicon Valley job to meet her grandfather, James. James is a... Read More

An African teenager comes of age between countries and cultures in Ebele Chizea’s engrossing young adult novel "Aquarian Dawn". In the 1960s, Ada moves to Pennsylvania from Nabuka, a country riven by civil war and genocide. Her mother,... Read More

A historic Michigan wildfire inspires Linda Gruenberg’s sensitive novel Blazes & Brimstone, in which a boy teams up with his family during a crisis. In October of 1871, a forest fire encroaches upon eleven-year-old Lyle’s... Read More

Human Rights Watch lawyer Reed Brody’s "To Catch a Dictator" is about bringing an elusive criminal to trial for his war crimes. Hissène Habré’s eight-year despotic reign of Chad was marked by political massacres, torture, and rape.... Read More

"Bone Necklace" is a captivating historical novel in which men are troubled by their wartime losses. Julia Sullivan’s piercing historical novel "Bone Necklace" revisits the 1877 Nez Perce War through the personal stories of people on... Read More

In an eerie world in radical need of course correction, a Christian convert stands up against a man bent on world domination in this apocalyptic thriller. In Jeremy Jones’s apocalyptic thriller 3 ½ Years, a recent Christian convert is... Read More

The memoir "American Journey" details a celebrated painter’s reinventions and enduring passions. Italian American painter Marco Sassone’s eloquent memoir "American Journey" traces his personal and career highlights. Born in Tuscany... Read More