Only human beings have the power to determine if their period on Earth will have dark implications or light ones, warns this urgent ecological history text. Bruce Glass’s ecological history "The Anthropocene Epoch" concerns... Read More

In Sébastien Japrisot’s taut mystery novel "The Sleeping Car Murders", a woman’s corpse is found on a train that just arrived in Paris. The train originated in Marseilles, and the woman appears to have been strangled in the sleeping... Read More

Being Human Is Hard is a healing self-help book that equips people to choose to forgive. Christy Heacock’s narrative self-book Being Human Is Hard conveys the power and possibility of forgiveness. Forgiveness, according to the book, is... Read More

Family, identity, and loyalty are at stake in Jennifer Gold’s historical novel "Names in a Jar", a coming-of-age story set during the Holocaust. Lina Krawitz wants to be a storyteller and writer, but when her mother dies while giving... Read More

In Carl de Souza’s novel "Kaya Days", a simple errand leads a teenager into a days-long odyssey. Santee leaves her house one afternoon to bring her brother, Ram, home from school, only to be told he is missing. Her search puts her in... Read More

Urban bird lovers will love Rosemary Mosco’s Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching, an exuberant, insightful, and enchanting book that shows appreciation for the natural world. It may even appeal to nature-loving teenagers—if they can... Read More

Set in a small town, the charming mystery novel "A Mountain of Evidence" centers on a fugitive whose vulnerability becomes her strength. In Amy O. Lewis’s thriller A Mountain of Evidence, a woman on the run from one complicated... Read More

"The Long Winding Road of Harry Raymond" vivifies and contextualizes a pivotal turn-of-the-century crime. Patrick Jenning’s riveting "The Long Winding Road of Harry Raymond" is a combination regional history, true crime, and biography... Read More