In Donna Barba Higuera’s distinctive novel "Alebrijes", an impoverished boy defies a realm of fantastical totalitarianism. Leandro is a crafty, compassionate thirteen-year-old who lives with his younger sister, Gabi, outside of... Read More
"Running Out of Time" forwards a compelling, targeted set of intricate recommendations for improving wildfire readiness. Placing contemporary forest management and wildfire response practices under a microscope, David L. Auchterlonie and... Read More
"The Nine Lives of Bianca Moon" is a wry satirical novel—a comedy of errors in which anthropomorphized animals live, die, and solve murders with the help of spirits. In Delas Heras’s mystery novel "The Nine Lives of Bianca Moon", a... Read More
In Laura Frantz’s eloquent Georgian romance novel "The Rose and the Thistle", an English lady goes into exile during the Jacobite uprising and has a fateful encounter with a Scottish earl. Blythe, the duke of Northumbria’s only... Read More
“Mass extinction and social collapse” are “a hard set of lemons to be making lemonade out of,” environmental activist Andrew Boyd admits. "I Want a Better Catastrophe" is his inventive, no-nonsense manual of constructive and... Read More
The temperate rain forest of the North Pacific coast is so valuable an ecosystem that it has been dubbed “the Amazon of the North.” It holds the world’s tallest trees—“carbon-capturing machines.” In "Canopy of Titans", Paul... Read More
The magic system of Jamie Pacton’s delightful, haunting fantasy novel "The Vermilion Emporium" pays tribute to the Radium Girls, who met tragic ends. Quinta is an orphan who fears she will never live up to her mother’s magical life.... Read More