With Arctic Dreams in his trophy case, Barry Lopez is free to reign as America’s top storyteller of a natural world only he has the language and intuition to inhabit. Read More

Gerrard’s novel is a well-written, vibrant look at the collision of past mistakes and the complexity of modern political life. "Short Century", by David Burr Gerrard, is a powerful novel about a father with a messy personal and... Read More

Celebrating the act of prayer through multicolored panels depicting people from a wide array of religions, this vivid book is a primer for diversity and tolerance. Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism, among others, are... Read More

The sheer variety in this poignant collection reveals that the sonnet is very much a living art form. In the world of contemporary poetry, free verse and experimentation remain our era’s taste and tendency, so where does this leave... Read More

In this riveting ballet story set in 1950s America, Paddy Eger reminds us that not every ballerina gets her fairy-tale ending. Seventeen-year-old Marta Selbryth always dreamed of being a professional ballet dancer. When she secures a... Read More

Set in the near future, this intellectually stimulating take on the end of civilization is made more chilling by how easily it could all happen. Smartly written and exhaustively researched, Thomas A. Lewis’s Tribulation: A Novel of the... Read More

The variety of voices provides a conversational account of issues a diabetic might encounter. In Balancing Diabetes: Conversations about Finding Happiness and Living Well, blogger Kerri Sparling recounts her lifelong experience with type... Read More

Bold, brash, brutal, and beautiful, "Spent" grips from the beginning and is in turns shocking, touching, devastating, and loving. As compelling on the page as she must have been on the stage, stripper-turned-writing instructor Antonia... Read More