A Beverly Hills event planner navigates her grief in Tay Marley’s romance novel "Meant for Me", about an impromptu trip that sparks healing. Addie was raised by her half-sister Margo; rending flashbacks reveal both Margo’s... Read More

Persuasive and thought-provoking, Benjamin Lewin’s "Inside Science" examines how big data is changing biological research. Contemporary scientific methods, Lewin says, are driven by large research teams, aggregated results across... Read More

Shilpi Suneja’s novel "House of Caravans" depicts the turbulent end of British-ruled India along with the ensuing violence amid the region’s Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs. Beyond this time of ravaged independence and the 1947... Read More

Elisabeth Sharp McKetta’s powerful novel "Ark" serves as a reminder that “home is where your animals are.” Arden’s world is on the verge of falling apart. Her family is downsizing to a tiny home they call “the ark”; her best... Read More

A lively memoir that captures the happiness and confusion of being part of two cultures at once, "Dancing into the Light" is celebratory and affecting. Kathryn K. Abdul-Baki’s powerful memoir "Dancing into the Light" is about the joy... Read More

Maurice Hornocker’s exciting memoir covers his long quest to understand and protect Idaho’s apex predator—the elusive cougar. Based on his years of groundbreaking field studies and research for his doctoral dissertation, this book... Read More

Trauma and social attitudes transform people’s worldviews in the startling thriller "The Rising Order". In Claire Isenthal’s thriller "The Rising Order", a brainwashed terrorist uses an innocent woman to wreak havoc. Wolf is part of... Read More

At sixty and retired, Marianne Bohr and her husband felt fit and ready for adventure. Thus, they planned to hike the famed, daunting Grande Randonnée 20. "The Twenty" covers their 124-mile trek along the spine of Corsica, which... Read More