Esperança Garcia, a Brazilian slave, wrote a letter to the governor in 1770 complaining about her treatment and asking for help. This is her story as she might have told it, with the sorrow and desperation of a wife and mother seeking... Read More

This charming book is about a child exploring nature as she walks through the woods with her father. She is enthralled by the world around her and wants to hold on to everything she finds. Her father helps her to see that she can only... Read More

Julian M. Allwood and Jonathan M. Cullen, the authors of Sustainable Materials, have engineering backgrounds, and that allows them to discuss an area that doesn’t receive enough attention—making buildings and goods more efficient by... Read More

Two Percent Solutions for the Planet takes a clever approach to environmental problems. Rather than look at overarching solutions, Courtney White compiles fifty examples of effective, relatively small-scale success stories from around... Read More

This engaging and romantic story is packed with action and intrigue. A disenchanted twenty-something’s solo, cross-country road trip turns dangerous when a hitchhiker draws him into a Chicago crime web. "Missing Mona" is Joe... Read More

A college student and a soldier trade letters in this indelible coming-of-age novel. G. C. Hendricks and Kathryn Watson Quigg’s poignant To Any Soldier: A Novel of Vietnam Letters is the story of a yearlong exchange of letters between... Read More

This concise, practical book of spiritual advice proposes three questions that can guide daily decision-making for people of any faith. Despite having lived with a disability for nearly three decades, Charlie Horton declares, “The... Read More

Scientific innovation and geopolitical interests collide in this significant new work of popular physics. The 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN, in Switzerland, marked the beginning, not the end, of particle physics. In their... Read More