Jennifer Clair distills years of teaching cooking classes into a useful manual for becoming a more rounded home cook. Each technique receives one chapter, with numerous recipes and illustrative photographs as helpful aids. What makes... Read More

In Philip Donlay’s Speed the Dawn, a plausible catastrophe hits California, triggering a lightning pace of events. Billionaire philanthropist Donovan Nash has assembled the best scientific minds to tackle Earth’s environmental... Read More

Young naturalists are encouraged to look, listen, and experience the world around them through a series of scavenger hunts and activities perfect for a nearby trail, park, or backyard adventure. In this fun and informative book, a... Read More

Following in the footsteps of her Cool Japan Guide, Abby Denson presents the "Cool Tokyo Guide", a graphic novel tour of standard and off-beat highlights of the city. There aren’t many graphic novel guidebooks around, but that may... Read More

Pearls on a Branch: Tales from the Arab World Told by Women is a collection of thirty stories curated by Najla Khoury, who spent years compiling, polishing, and editing these primarily oral works. Retold from generation to generation,... Read More

"Wizard for Hire"’s irresistible pages celebrate the irrepressible magic of being authentic and unique. Incidental misfits and intrepid survivors gather for a singularly important quest in Obert Skye’s "Wizard for Hire", a... Read More

Caterpillars Can’t Swim is an encouraging story about what’s possible if teens choose to accept the people around them. The presumably small thinking within a small riverside town may have disastrous consequences in Liane Shaw’s... Read More