Her Hidden Genius is another fantastic novel about extraordinary but forgotten women by Marie Benedict. Specializing in women with great impact who have been neglected by history, Benedict again sheds new light on the life of a remarkable woman. Rosalind Franklin never quite fits into the world she inhabits, whether […]
Eating to Extinction: The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
Food journalist Don Saladino has assembled an encyclopedic array of gripping food stories collected from around the world. The message is simple yet cautionary: by homogenizing our world’s food supply into vast monocultures of genetically programmed crops such as the cultural staples of rice, corn, wheat, and soybean, these global […]
White Girl Within: Letters of Self-Discovery Between a Transgender and Transracial Black Man and His Inner Female
For millennia, letters have been a powerful medium through which to express deepest sentiments and feelings about well-kept secrets. Educator and speaker Ronnie Gladden leverages the power of the missive to share complicated and sensitive emotions and unvarnished truths about the confluence of race and gender in their memoir White […]
Worlds Long Lost
The question “Are we alone in the universe?” has never been answered with a definitive yes or no, but that hasn’t stopped storytellers from looking to the stars and imagining other worlds. Many authors make a living off bringing these fictional places to life. New stories come out about past […]
The Wine Bible, 3rd Edition
The Wine Bible is the go-to book for anyone with questions about wine, who loves wine, and who wants to know more about wine. The book starts by describing the twelve attributes that make a wine great: distinctiveness, balance, precision, aliveness, beyond fruitiness, complexity, choreography, shape and direction, length, connectedness, […]
Night Lunch
What struck me first about Night Lunch was the wonderful style of the illustrations. The textures and subtle use of colors among a mainly sepia palette really made the pictures come to life. As the night lunch cart rolls into town, a majestic owl cooks for his fellow animals. From […]
Doe’s Dandelions (Woodland Friends, 4)
Doe’s Dandelions is the story about a doe (deer) who was excitedly getting ready for the Petal Parade with her friends Porcupine, Squirrel, and Bear. Doe grew daffodils, Porcupine had petunias, Squirrel had snowdrops, and Bear had bluebells. Doe found many dandelions in her grass one day and became scared […]
Diper Överlöde (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 17)
In the newest installment of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, Greg Heffley is helping his brother Rodrick bring his band Loded Diper to fame- which is harder than it sounds. Rodrick is convinced that if the band works hard enough, they might have a shot at winning this […]
A Ruinous Fate (Witch’s Dice)
Calla Rosewood lives in hiding from the witch queens, never staying in one place for more than a few months. Her Roles of Fate have determined that she will be the sixth- and final- Blood Warrior, and the queens seek to destroy her before she makes her final role and […]
Unbound II: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy
Unbound II: Tales by Masters of Fantasy is a new anthology by award-winning author and editor Shawn Speakman. This anthology of seventeen tales contains fantastical stories that are genuinely unbound. Speakman, for a number of reasons, intended this collection to be themeless. Pure magic happens when that much freedom is […]