Based on a true story, this touching picture book demonstrates that hate can always be overcome by love and community—and suggests some age-appropriate methods for being part of the solution. When a lesbian couple’s home is... Read More

"Voices for the Islands" traces the history of conservation efforts in British Columbia, recounting the brave and assiduous work of everyday people toward maintaining a healthy planet. The Salish Sea, Shelia Harrington notes, is home to... Read More

Drawing on oral history, photographs, and letters, Darius and Catherine Brubeck revisit their inauguration of a fertile jazz music launchpad in South Africa during and after apartheid in "Playing the Changes". The book’s vibrant... Read More

In Anne Leigh Parrish’s historical novel "The Hedgerow", an enigmatic woman’s professional goals clash with postwar American culture. Circumstances compel Edith to take a room in Henry’s lavish home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.... Read More

In Ann McMan’s romance novel "The Black Bird of Chernobyl", a misanthropic mortician meets her match in her new bubbly community outreach colleague. Lilah runs her family’s mortuary and prefers to stay in the morgue over interacting... Read More

Atsuhiro Yoshida’s novel "Goodnight Tokyo" delves into the nighttime activities of a disparate group of Tokyoites. For her latest assignment as a prop procurer for film sets, Mitsuki must secure loquats off-season. Enlisting Matsui’s... Read More

Powerful and informative, Rena Steinzor’s "American Apocalypse" examines the history, motives, and momentum of six powerful groups aligned with the far right: corporations, the Tea Party, the Federalist Society, Fox News, white... Read More

In Yasmin Zaher’s novel "The Coin", an immigrant navigates a bizarre sociopolitical web of glamour, obsession, filth, and tragedy. After both her parents are killed in a quotidian accident, a wealthy woman leaves Palestine and fitfully... Read More