In "Sentimental Tales", Mikhail Zoshchenko masterfully exhibits a playful seriousness. Hilarity flits over a biting satirical indictment of the 1920s Soviet literary scene. As explained across four comical prefaces, the tales are... Read More

Outstanding color photography distinguishes this “visual essay” by award-winning photographer Joe McDonald. The polar bear, certainly one of the planet’s most recognized animals, is also one of the most endangered. “Today,”... Read More

Lifelong environmental activist Grant Merritt grew up in a mining family—literally close to the earth. His ancestors respected the land, mining iron ore near the surface instead of burrowing underground. Merritt’s memoir reads like a... Read More

Environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb’s lively and educational Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter shows why beavers should be respected as “ecosystem engineers.” Goldfarb is a fan of beavers, but he... Read More

Best known for the influence of her store, Mnasidika, and her association with Janis Joplin, Peggy Caserta has the devil’s own luck. Relentless and relentlessly unafraid to use all the advantages at her disposal, her story is a wild... Read More

Caught up in the heady magic of 1968 in California’s Haight-Ashbury district, journalist Malcolm Terence found that the world was changing fast—much faster than the attitudes of his employer, the Los Angeles Times. Terence chose to... Read More

Borders both real and imagined, dystopian futures caused by catastrophic climate change, and devastating alterations of the past vivify the twenty-one stories of Shades Within Us. In the tradition of speculative and science fiction, the... Read More

Eric Dupont’s family saga "Songs for the Cold of Heart" resurrects ancient storytelling methods, recognizing the fact that if a family’s history is to survive, its stories must be compelling enough to be retold to and by future... Read More