Poetic, inventive, and spare, Maria S. Picone’s "This Tenuous Atmosphere" is a meticulous novella about a woman’s search for family and belonging. Asia feels like an outsider in her fantastical outer-space world. Orbiting Earth among... Read More

To say that Chef Alain Ducasse, the recipient of 21 Michelin Stars, is a legend in the culinary world would be an understatement. Now, in his memoir "Good Taste", Ducasse reveals his vision of cuisine: naturality, or a style of cooking... Read More

A young victim of terrorism watches over those she left behind in Linda N. Masi’s novel "Fine Dreams". Kubra loved running, the color pink, and studying to become an educator like her mother. After she becomes collateral damage in a... Read More

In Lee Wind’s exciting novel "A Different Kind of Brave", two gay teenagers who emulate James Bond fall in love and crisscross the Americas to shut down a harsh conversion therapy institution. Sixteen-year-old Nico escapes Dr.... Read More

The master of wordless picture books returns with this moving retelling of Noah’s Ark that speaks to an uncertain future. Long-abandoned structures stretch up from the watery grave of a flooded world as a construction robot, NOA, cares... Read More

In captivating words, photographs, and illustrations, geologist Edmund Stump’s book "Otherworldly Antarctica" covers the “stark and utterly pristine” continent where winter never leaves. Stump spent thirteen field seasons mapping... Read More

A loyal group of translators find their allegiances tested when their author disappears in translator Jennifer Croft’s winking satirical novel "The Extinction of Irena Rey". The novel adopts a twisting conceit. It is the translated... Read More

A powerful wizard protects her right to self-determination in Patricia A. McKillip’s fantasy classic "The Forgotten Beasts of Eld". “Every time I read "The Forgotten Beasts of Eld", I am filled with love,” writes Marjorie Liu in... Read More