Monty is a blue, wide-eyed donkey who’s content with his life on the farm, among other loving animals. But someone left the gate open today, and Monty is tempted to wander. Curious by nature, he follows the examples set by a moose and... Read More

In Makenzy Orcel’s "The Immortals", a grieving woman vents her feelings on death and loss. A Haitian sex worker cajoles her client, a writer, into recording the life of her protégé, who was killed in the 2010 earthquake. Despite the... Read More

From one winter to the next, Aggataa, a young Inuit girl, develops appreciation for nature with the help of her grandmother in the Canadian North. When she meets the small, disheveled raven her grandmother saved last winter, Aggataa dubs... Read More

Julia Zarankin’s memoir is a moving, and often hilarious, account of how she—a type A, perfectionistic, and nature-avoidant novice—became a bona fide “bird nerd,” transforming her life in the process. Zarankin’s story begins... Read More

Claire B. Willis and Marnie Crawford Samuelson’s "Opening to Grief" is a companion for people facing loss. Grief is a pressing force that often drives people to isolate or close themselves off to new experiences, but “grief and love... Read More

In this whimsical love letter to love itself, lyrical rhymes and exquisite watercolor illustrations paint an inclusive, educational portrait of the countless ways that humans and animals convey affection. A variety of cultures, ages, and... Read More

The feckless Sloot returns in "Now Before the Dark", the third book in Sam Hooker’s Very Serious Darkness series. Once an accountant for gangsters, and a former ghost who’s been transfigured into a demon, Sloot endures farcical... Read More

Alan Rose’s literary novel "As If Death Summoned" is about grief and community in the time of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The book’s unnamed narrator has returned to the US from Australia, where he spent a decade with his partner, Gray,... Read More