Ambitious and sophisticated, "Cooperative Lives" is a diverse and gorgeous tapestry of character studies. Patrick Finegan’s luscious novel "Cooperative Lives" follows characters whose lives change when they are brought into close... Read More

Cryptic puzzles, heart-pounding action, and international intrigue power this second book in Trudi Trueit’s Explorer Academy series, The Falcon’s Feather. Cruz Coronado and his peers from the Explorer Academy have boarded a ship to... Read More

Even a surveillance state can’t see everything. M. T. Hill’s "Zero Bomb" is set in a near-future England. Industries have been automated for ease, non-Christian religions have been abolished, people are digitally tracked, and many... Read More

“Metaphors get compromised. Get eroded and need updating. Rerouting. Reconstituting,” writes Lia Purpura. This is just one of the luminous themes mined in her glittering new essay collection "All the Fierce Tethers". In prose that is... Read More

Roger Sedjo, a senior fellow at an environmental think tank and a shared recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on climate assessment, is guardedly hopeful about humanity’s ability to deal with climate change—though... Read More

James Hawes condenses two millennia into a zippy 256 pages in "The Shortest History of Germany". Breezy yet knowledgeable, the book provides a thorough grounding in the major historical events and religious and regional differences that... Read More

Trained alongside Albert Einstein, Mileva Marić, the renowned physicist’s first wife, has been credited with being a brilliant mathematician, surpassing Einstein himself; it’s also been said that she coauthored his 1905 paper on... Read More

Rebecca Lawton’s powerful and poetic "The Oasis This Time" celebrates water as a precious natural resource. Though its essays focus primarily on water in the western US, the book also explores humanity’s complex relationship with... Read More