My Father’s List is a moving memoir about healing after loss. On August 8, 2003, Mick Carney was killed by a distracted driver, leaving behind his family and the bucket list that he’d written when he was twenty-nine. Still grieving a... Read More

Acclaimed nature writer Roger Morgan-Grenville’s book "Across a Waking Land" covers his thousand-mile trek in search of hopeful signs from the distressed planet. When he was sixty-two years old and not in the best shape,... Read More

Fun and informative, "Iconic Composers" is a celebration of some of history’s greatest musical minds, packed with memorable art and lots of great trivia about fascinating artists. These fifty talented composers are diverse group, not... Read More

In Louise Finch’s insightful novel The Eternal Return of Clara Hart, a boy who’s stuck in a time loop confronts the events that led to the death of a classmate. For Spencer, the anniversary of his mom’s death is a painful day. At a... Read More

While New York City prepares for a hurricane, the staff and patients of a headache clinic brace against a storm of their own making in Amy Grace Loyd’s novel "The Pain of Pleasure". A doctor unpacks the consequences of prescribing joy... Read More

Henry wants to climb the plants and flowers in the garden with all the other snails, but Henry is different in one important way: he has no slime. Determined to find his own way to climb, Henry begins training; he drags pebbles, lifts... Read More

A generation trades clicks for activism in "Girlfriend on Mars", Deborah Willis’s incisive satirization of Anthropocene dissonance. Once an Olympic hopeful, Amber is now in her thirties and dead-ending it in British Columbia. She loves... Read More

Greg Marshall’s moving memoir "Leg" is about finding strength in family support. While applying for health insurance during graduate school, Marshall learned that his recognizable limp was a symptom of spastic cerebral palsy. He’d... Read More