Robert B. Marks’s comprehensive natural history text Deep Time in Mono Basin concerns a sensitive lake ecosystem in northeastern California. The Mono Lake Basin, at the edge of the Sierra Nevada, serves a vital ecological role as one... Read More

About home and migration in the face of displacement, Elin Anna Labba’s haunting, elegant novel "The Home of the Drowned" memorializes indigenous Sámi culture in Lapland. Three Sámi women—Iŋgá; her mother, Rávdná; and her Aunt... Read More

The discovery of an alien communication changes a family’s trajectory in Alexandra Oliva’s rich speculative novel "The Radiant Dark". When scientists announce that a repeating light pattern is a message from extraterrestrials, Carol... Read More

Emphasizing the importance of quiet observations of the natural world, Kathryn Gillespie’s probing, meditative nature book "The Sound of Feathers" is about human encounters with animals. The thoughtful essays address the ethics of... Read More

A traumatized psychologist’s story is used to illuminate and humanize general therapeutic guidance in the soothing allegorical novel "The Fire That Makes Us". In Shahrzad Jalali’s Jungian allegorical novel "The Fire That Makes Us", a... Read More

Donna Freitas’s psychological thriller "Her One Regret" is about a missing mother and regretting motherhood. Lucy disappears from a parking lot, leaving her baby behind. Her best friend, Michelle, thinks she was kidnapped. But then... Read More

Dag O. Hessen’s lyrical, contemplative, and moving memoir is about his search for wolverines in the rugged mountains of Norway. Inspired by his childhood memories of spotting wolverine tracks while skiing with his father, Hessen... Read More

Áine Cain and Kevin Greenlee’s true crime book delves into the Delphi murders, documenting the case from the day of the crime all the way to the conviction of the killer. When teenagers Libby and Abby went missing on local trails,... Read More