A strong proponent of learner-centric education, Coomi Vevaina considers it long past time for radical change in our traditional educational systems. She provides an outline and an explanation of her theories for change in her new book,... Read More

Offering deeply useful advice and fascinating portraits of urban farmers, Backyard Roots is a rich collection of stories about people who boost community by growing food and raising animals in the heart of a city. Author Lori Eanes, a... Read More

For a change, here’s a story of an Earth that is not post-apocalyptic—just a delightful sci-fi romp replete with adventure, aliens, and time travel. If an author’s sci-fi Rip Van Winkle-type hero is going to wake up from a 450-year... Read More

Pagan rituals and herbal medicine team up with laser beams and space travel in "Khamlok", the second installment in Regina M. Joseph’s Alterran Legacy series. With Colony Earth in 2012, Joseph began to explore an alternate history of... Read More

"Little Peach Pit" tells the charming story of a peach pit battling adversity with dedication, hard work, and confidence. Grace Nava begins the tale with a farmer planting three seeds: an apple seed, a watermelon seed, and a peach pit.... Read More

Bold and evocative illustrations help convey the many moods in this true story of a boy from Tierra del Fuego who was brought to England in the mid-1800s to be “educated and civilized.” Curiosity, longing, wonder, isolation, and... Read More

Dramatized accounts from the Bible attract faithful practitioners dedicated to greater understanding of religious documents through interpretation, and this work of Carol Cook is another fictional innovation based on popular stories from... Read More

Author risks alienating supporters by urging the environmental health movement to follow the example of civil rights through “collective, peaceful civil disobedience.” The Greek mathematician Archimedes, referring to levers, is... Read More