"My Jewish Year" is an invaluable text for understanding how contemporary people work to find personal meaning in inherited traditions. "My Jewish Year" is an amusing, intelligent, and often incandescent approach to modern religious... Read More

For a book about nuclear waste cleanup, paradox and irony figure prominently—"Atomic Geography" is an intelligent, probing, and strangely poetic read. Environmental engineer Melvin Adams spent more than two decades working at the... Read More

Luke Healy weaves the mesmerizing but disparate tales of two expeditions to the Arctic a hundred years ago, and a modern-day college professor facing a scandal, in his stunning debut graphic novel, "How to Survive in the North".... Read More

This is serious and appealing historical fiction, both vivid and fresh. Amsterdam and colonial New Amsterdam come alive in Judith K. White’s vivid historical novel, "The Rise of Dirck Becker". In the final volume of White’s Amsterdam... Read More

Renowned naturalist and lepidopterist Robert Michael Pyle showcases five decades of personal essays that together untangle and illumine the mysteries of nature and being. "Through a Green Lens" offers hauntingly beautiful macro and micro... Read More

At its heart, "Right of Capture" explores the various ways that human weaknesses can be exploited. Genetic evolution, corporate interests, and politics collide in Isadora Deese’s "Right of Capture". Focusing on two remarkable siblings,... Read More

"Envoy of Jerusalem" is a captivating work of historical fiction. Helena P. Schrader’s Envoy of Jerusalem: Balian d’Ibelin and the Third Crusade is a detailed work of historical fiction that offers insight into the religious politics... Read More

"Tricks Every Boy Can Do" offers a meditation on how family both molds and transforms us. The contentious relationship between two identical brothers takes center stage in Paul Buchanan’s "Tricks Every Boy Can Do". People are defined... Read More