Abigail Rose Clarke’s body, mind, and spirit guidebook is about navigating perilous times with wisdom, comfort, and grace. Writing through a chaotic time, Clarke argues that it is possible to experience the world in a whole new way.... Read More

A chance encounter alters the course of a man’s life in Gustave Flaubert’s freshly translated novel "Sentimental Education". Weak-willed, self-centered Frédéric has just graduated from school. On the boat ride home, the sight of a... Read More

Through the social justice-themed essays of "The Jail Is Everywhere", activists work against the expansion and normalization of jails. After decades of massive expansion in the United States’s carceral system, most counties now host at... Read More

Music helps a family to heal their broken bonds, moving past hurt silences, in the lovely novel "Water Music". A summer holiday on Cape Cod tests a family’s wills and loyalties in Marcia Peck’s tender novel "Water Music". In 1956,... Read More

Part memoir, part biography, part found poetry, the moving work in "Next Time You Come Home" reveals the daily moments that make up a life. Lisa Dordal’s engaging and emotive cross-genre collection "Next Time You Come Home" transforms... Read More

The unconditional love between pets and their people is honored in this picture book about a resilient champion pony—a tale inspired by a true story. Whenever Posey’s kids get too tall for her, she is passed along to the next child;... Read More

Peter W. Fong’s "Rowing to Baikal" covers his rowing trip down the Selenge River, from its headwaters in Mongolia to Lake Baikal in Russia. Along the way, he assesses the health of the river’s ecosystem and the potential impact of... Read More

Botanist Juliet C. Stromberg’s engaging, effervescent memoir covers the ecological restoration of an abandoned four-acre farm in south Phoenix. In a twenty-year effort, Stromberg and her partner Matt created a verdant oasis on what had... Read More