Tamara Dean’s introspective memoir-in-essays "Shelter and Storm" is about sustainable living in a Wisconsin farming community. Pursuing a “new beginning,” Dean left the city and purchased a small farm in a southwest Wisconsin... Read More

In his fascinating travelogue "The Wild Dark", Craig Childs goes on a quest to reclaim dark nights. Childs remembers the mixture of awe and fear he felt under a Colorado night sky when he was five years old. Since then, he’s taken... Read More

A fascinating history of the nineteenth-century frenzy surrounding an exotic flower, "The Lost Orchid" is about Victorian imperialism, ecological devastation, and climate change. The “Queen of the Orchids” is rare and beautiful, with... Read More

Anastasia Mostacci’s delightful spiritual guide "Flower Magic" is about enhancing dialogues between humans and nature. As a child in her grandmother’s garden, Mostacci learned how flowers personify the highest qualities inherent in... Read More

Mycologist Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian’s book "Forest Euphoria" demonstrates that queerness is inherent in the natural world’s form and function. Growing up in the foothills of New York’s Taconic Mountains, Kaishian knew early on... Read More

Made up of scientific facts, photographs, and questions about life on the Svalbard Archipelago, "Way Up North Where the Kittiwakes Play" is a lovely alphabet book. Juli-Ann Gasper’s "Way Up North Where the Kittiwakes Play" is an... Read More