Travis Lupick’s "Light Up the Night" takes a compassionate look at the US’s drug overdose crisis and those working to address it. Two visionary reformers who themselves wrestled with drug addiction, Louise and Jess, are at the center... Read More

"Breaking Ground" is a masterful essay collection that wrings meaning out of a pandemic year. Moving from the summer of 2020 to the spring of 2021, these essays trace the changing face of the Covid-19 pandemic, from lockdowns to Black... Read More

Thorough in analyzing the history and psychology of work and exhaustion, Jonathan Malesic’s book suggests ways to revamp a system that burns people out. Malesic quit his tenured university position when he realized that the work no... Read More

Tonya Bolden’s "Speak Up, Speak Out!" is a biography for young readers that showcases the inspiring life and accomplishments of Shirley Chisholm. Shirley Chisholm was the first Black woman to be elected to the United States... Read More

“Paleontology is one of the most familiar and accessible of all sciences,” Roy Plotnick proclaims. Why? Dinosaurs, of course. Drawn in as children, a lucky few get the chance to make a career out of serendipitous fossil discoveries.... Read More

A man grapples with his past and his racial identity in Paulo Scott’s novel "Phenotypes". Federico and his brother Lourenço are both Black. But Federico, being light-skinned, escapes much of the prejudice that Lourenço faces. These... Read More

Anthropocentrism and the untrammeled exploitation of Earth’s resources leads to climate and environmental crises, but "Becoming Rooted" charts an alternate path, prescribing a more sustainable, Indigenous American worldview of the... Read More

In Susan May Warren’s novel about a steady, fated romance, "Sunrise", a prodigal son returns to the shadow of Denali to take up the mantle of a bush pilot, all while confronting memories of the woman he left behind. After his estranged... Read More