Jean-Philippe Blondel’s delicate and delightful novel "Café Unfiltered" dips into the musings of several people who have gathered in a French café over the course of one day. In France, the COVID-19 lockdown has just been lifted. Le... Read More

"Find More Birds" is a handy guide for birders, covering over one hundred steps toward increasing one’s chances of seeing birds in the wild. Birds leave behind evidence of their whereabouts, Wolf says—clues that can be followed to... Read More

A woman returns to her childhood haunts in Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette’s sensual, earthy novel "To the Forest". Decamping their pandemic-shuttered city, a family retreats to a blue cottage in the woods—a place bound by a stream, a... Read More

An ensemble cast—their personalities aching, flawed, and vibrant—intersects across time in Rebekah Bergman’s "The Museum of Human History", a startling novel about memory, desire, and learning to age with grace. Off the coast of... Read More

Hope and security can be found in God, according to "Blessings", a devotional with instructions for setting aside beliefs that differ from Jesus’s teachings. Alan Carruth’s sensible and straightforward Christian devotional... Read More

The direct, poignant short stories collected in "Scar Songs" tap into universal feelings of loss and regret. In W. Royce Adams’s short story collection "Scar Songs", people cope with loss and their past mistakes as best they can. In... Read More

Powerful and distinctive, the memoir "Ride or Die" covers a couple’s struggle with terminal leukemia. Marked by difficulties, Jarie Bolander’s memoir "Ride or Die" is about a couple’s contention with the grief and confusion of a... Read More

Mina is nervous about starting at a new kindergarten; she doesn’t speak the same language as her classmates and teacher, and she is quiet at first. While she learns English, Mina and her classmates find connection in the universal... Read More