Bob Eckstein selects cartoons whose themes are critics and criticism in the collection Everyone’s a Critic. Eckstein, whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and MAD Magazine, has picked a perfect topic: in the... Read More

For many small towns around the world, World War I was a seismic event, and the Canadian town of Merritt in British Columbia’s Nicola Valley is a prime example. A town that even today only has a few thousand residents lost forty-four... Read More

Megan C. Hayes’s "The Serenity Passport" celebrates the simple, fun, and often quirky ways that people in cultures across the globe carve out peaceful, centered spaces for themselves. Making untranslatable words and concepts... Read More

Michael Powell’s adventurer’s guide How to Send Smoke Signals, Pluck a Chicken, & Build an Igloo runs the gamut of outdoorsy skills. Seeking to transform nature novices into people who are equipped, confident, and resourceful in... Read More

“The sky above us holds limitless wonder,” astrophysicist and television producer Sarah Barker declares. Technology may have made it easier to spot and understand heavenly bodies, but it will never explain away their magic. Barker... Read More

Sharon Risher and Sherri Wood Emmons’s "For Such a Time as This" is about an individual, her family, and the tragedy that changes them. On June 17, 2015, a white supremacist murdered members of a Bible study group inside the Emanuel... Read More

Nikola Tesla was an accomplished scientist and inventor as well as an enigmatic technological dreamer, as shown in Amy M. O’Quinn’s thorough biography "Nikola Tesla for Kids". The book moves from Tesla’s youth in modern-day Croatia... Read More

Laura James’s inventive mystery Fabio, The World’s Greatest Flamingo Detective is packed with clues, talented animals, and colorful imagery. Fabio goes to the Hotel Royal to get a refreshing glass of pink lemonade with his friend and... Read More