"Birds of Wonder" is an absorbing, often disturbing mystery in which no one seems truly trustworthy by the end. When a beautiful and audacious teenager is found dead in a sleepy college town, everyone is under suspicion—from her foster... Read More

Farming runs in the family for Trina Moyles: her great-grandmother emigrated from Ireland to Saskatchewan in 1925 and took over the running of the family’s farm when her husband and son left to fight in the Second World War. Women’s... Read More

Dorje Dolma’s fascinating memoir, "Yak Girl", concentrates on a childhood in Nepal. Though marked by hardships, her story is filled with hope and strength. The remote district of Dolpo had no electricity or running water, no... Read More

Friendly, informative, and backed by both professional and personal insight, this book truly captures the benefit of animals in our daily lives. In the heartwarming and engaging Dog As My Doctor, Cat As My Nurse, animal-human health and... Read More

Yasmeen raises uncomfortable reminders of how close to home racism lives. "Yasmeen Haddad Loves Joanasi Maqaittik" follows a well-intentioned teacher who arrives in an isolated Inuit community, determined to make a difference in her... Read More

Julie Maroh examines relationships of every sort in the fictional graphic novel "Body Music". Across a variety of settings and characters, French author Maroh turns her eye to love—its physical aspects, which seem to have inspired the... Read More

Don Quixote and Candide Seek Truth, Justice, and El Dorado in the Digital Age is fanciful, intelligent entertainment, better sipped than gulped to enjoy the full effect. The picaresque novel gets a fresh spin in Stefan Soto’s... Read More

Sympathy is created for these disparate and complex characters in a way that is worth savoring. Set in the late 1990s, Heather Bell Adams’s Marantha Road takes a seemingly standard setup of Southern poverty literature and burnishes it... Read More