Tennyson’s Big Secret is a whimsical, high-energy picture book that invites its audience on a quest to learn what a sweet boy’s hidden talent is. A boy withholds a surprising truth until the final pages of A. H. Benjamin’s picture... Read More

Taking a light, respectful approach to the sensitive topic of children being different from their peers, "Dare to Be Me" is an exuberant, supportive picture book. In Kaci Bolls and Nathan Meckel’s colorful picture book "Dare to Be Me",... Read More

Set in the shadowy Louisiana bayous, the coming-of-age novel "More than a Hashtag" celebrates a boy’s perseverance through danger and loss. Rich with imagery and Cajun expressions, Penny Poulsen Watson’s coming-of-age novel "More... Read More

John J. Berger’s ambitious environmental tome "Solving the Climate Crisis" sets forth practical policy solutions for addressing climate change. Eschewing doom and gloom, this forward-looking book outlines concrete steps toward... Read More

Joanne Anton’s "Sexus Botanicus" is an often playful, beautiful science book loaded with fascinating, substantive information about plants’ reproductive lives. Featuring clear, succinct prose and gorgeous color sketches, the book... Read More

A memoir about transgender womanhood and the messy art of self-construction, McKenzie Wark’s "Love and Money, Sex and Death" models how identity muddies the waters of who you are, what you want to be like, and who you want to be with.... Read More

L. L. Kirchner’s snarky memoir "Blissful Thinking" covers her search for validation in all the wrong places. After early-onset menopause prevented her from starting a family, Kirchner and her husband went to Qatar for her work, hoping... Read More

As humans wage war on each other and on nature, a visionary Wisconsin forester discovers a poisoned gift within himself in B. Pladek’s historical novel "Dry Land". Rand trained to be a forester after losing his beloved marshland to... Read More