This will be a rewarding book for anyone looking for a way to engage in less conflict-based, more effective community change. Lawyer and activist Sherri Mitchell was raised on a Penobscot reservation in Maine. She translates years of... Read More

From Columbus’s journey in 1492 to seventeenth-century slave ships, the infamous Titanic, and present-day ocean-dwelling communities, the terrible majesty of the sea is celebrated through a collection of poems penned by a bevy of... Read More

In the graphic novel "Angelitos", Ilan Stavans and Santiago Cohen team up for a fictional tale about a controversial real-life figure, Padre Chinchachoma of Mexico, and a student introduced into his world and the seedy underside of... Read More

Surrealistic tones emphasize heavy questions of empire-building and cultural subsumption in this thoughtful archaeology novel. Set in the cutthroat world of classical archaeology, Bernard Schopen’s "The Last Centurion" is a story in... Read More

This marvelous manifesto on radical self-love is life altering—required reading for anyone who struggles with body image. “Survival is damn hard,” Sonya Renee Taylor says in the introduction to her marvelous new book, "The Body Is... Read More

Learn about urban gardening and beekeeping from young Lionel and his friends as they convince the residents of a colorful Parisian apartment building to open their rooftop and window boxes to a struggling hive of honeybees. Bright... Read More

Inspired by tales of the Underground Railroad and its innovative methods of communication, a perilous story of courage and cunning unfolds as a blacksmith and his son use the rhythm of a hammer striking an anvil to guide runaway slaves... Read More

The constant motion and evolution of a tiny drop through the fundamental water cycle is beautifully interpreted in Jorge Tetl Argueta’s poetically bilingual Agua, Agüita, or Water, Little Water. Illustrations from Felipe Ugalde... Read More