Suggesting means of balancing between delight, satisfaction, and excitement in one’s working life, Don’t Settle is an encouraging professional discernment guide. George Appling’s shrewd business guide Don’t Settle recommends... Read More

Peter Cavanagh’s "How Birds Fly" is an enlightening examination of the aerodynamics of bird flight. A rare science book that includes dazzling photographs of birds from around the globe, including hummingbirds, songbirds, raptors, and... Read More

"The Diapause", Andrew Forbes’s speculative fiction treatise on a postplague world, is both a grim look at the dark side of survivalist psychosis and a heartbreaking love letter to the disappearing worlds around us. Gabe is an only... Read More

"Water Bodies", edited by reporter Laura Paskus, is a mixed-genre anthology that serves as a paean to bodies of water. “In this climate-changed world,” the introduction intones, “we live in an ever-tightening present.” It’s a... Read More

For the central trio in Jenny Haysom’s astute and appealing novel "Keep", held and released secrets and possessions threaten to disrupt the course of life. Harriet, a poet in her eighties, is slipping into dementia; ““if this last... Read More

Made up of intriguing peeks into the state’s historical contributions, "Delaware from Freeways to E-Ways" is a concise, celebratory reference text that focuses on twentieth-century Delaware. A history text in vignettes, Dave Tabler’s... Read More

A magenta alpaca with contrasting teal eyeshadow stands out against bookish backdrops in this whimsical picture book that sneaks educational animal facts into its colorful chaos. Children will learn that alpacas are sheared once a year,... Read More

An Armenian child of refugees muses on ancestral stories as vehicles of connection and identity in this moving picture book. Though far from the places her ancestors called home, she embraces the traditions they passed down to her, such... Read More