Joanne Anton’s "Sexus Botanicus" is an often playful, beautiful science book loaded with fascinating, substantive information about plants’ reproductive lives. Featuring clear, succinct prose and gorgeous color sketches, the book... Read More

If there were such a thing as a list of do’s and don’ts for a hired assassin, “Don’t get involved with the target” would probably be at the top of the “don’ts” column. Linda L. Richards’s propulsive novel "Dead West"... Read More

In "A Nimble Arc", art historian and educator Emilie Boone shifts focus from photographer James Van Der Zee’s renowned Harlem Renaissance work to his role in documenting and advancing “quotidian” Black American life. Van Der Zee... Read More

A law professor dodges assassins, a bomb, and an ancient curse during a search for hidden treasure in John F. Dobbyn’s novel "Deadly Depths". Following his mentor’s strange death, Matthew vows to learn the truth. He discovers that... Read More

Award-winning Gitxsan journalist Angela Sterritt is “holding … pens of healing” in "Unbroken", a thought-provoking memoir about advocating for missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada. Highway 16 in Vancouver is known as the... Read More

A woman once undone by empathy now finds that it could be her salvation in Claire Fuller’s stunning postapocalyptic novel "The Memory of Animals". In her childhood, Neffy split her time between her father’s Greek island and her... Read More

In Mary Ann Miller’s chilling mystery novel "Bones Under the Ice", cold temperatures are no barrier to murder. In the days following a blizzard, the body of a pregnant teenager is uncovered in a snowdrift outside of rural Fields... Read More

Imaginative and captivating, Erika Nesvold’s "Off-Earth" poses vital, wide-ranging ethical questions about the future of human communities in outer space. While books on interplanetary travel typically focus on technology, this... Read More