An informed perspective and an objective voice contribute authority to this critique of animal farming and consumption. In identifying the primary reasons why she wrote "Animals as Food", Amy Fitzgerald points out several factors that... Read More

Gooley’s playful and relaxed tone imparts as steady a pace as one might expect on a stroll through the woods. How rare to find a book that is truly brilliant. The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs, by Tristan Gooley, is brilliant in... Read More

The author’s extensive knowledge, passion, and lyrical prose elevate this biography of a small Maine farm to a rewarding work of literature. For a sparsely populated state, Maine has an enormously rich literary tradition, particularly... Read More

In the early 1960s, Larry Dunlap made a choice plenty of others have dreamed about—moving out to California to join his friends in a singing group. In Night People, he recounts the early days of trying to make it, when the dreams of... Read More

Poverty, the true costs of charity, and the value of life are all themes compellingly explored in this novel based in Lima. Fourteen-year-old Julio has found it harder and harder to provide for himself and his twin brother since the... Read More

This novel about a girl awakening as she questions the cult she’s grown up in is full of wisdom and potential. In a paradisaical, hyper-sexualized cult created by Dot (a goddess figure), Wren spends her days hooking up, freewheeling in... Read More

This grisly and bizarre murder mystery is the perfect YA stepping stone to Stephen King. A washed-up detective contacts a movie producer for a meeting. He asks for money and presents the producer not with a script, but with the diary of... Read More

The journal format of this spare novel allows for an in-depth examination of the daily grief experienced after a friend’s suicide. "When Kacey Left", an epistolary novel, traces the aftermath of teen suicide. Dawn Green’s succinct... Read More