An Immense World is an accessible, illuminating and exciting reading experience. Yes, nonfiction about the science of animal senses can be page-turning!
Ellyn Gaydos‘ debut memoir, Pig Years, is a poetic meditation on fertility, loss and the pleasures and perils of life and work on a small farm.
Ingrid Rojas Contreras makes the recent history of Columbia immediate, personal and magical, with prose that in itself is enchantingly poetic.
Sutanya Dacres‘ memoir about recovering from heartbreak in Paris is hopeful, salubrious and, like a meal served with love, a balm for the spirit.
Is there anything original left to say about surviving a dysfunctional upbringing? Normal Family by Chrysta Bilton takes this question almost as a dare.
In The Crane Wife, CJ Hauser excavates her past loves and losses, thoughtfully examines their aftermath and declares the pain of love to be worth the risk.
The history of Abraham Lincoln and his enthrallment with spiritualism has never been more surprising than in Terry Alford‘s In the Houses of Their Dead.
Nick Seabrook’s One Person, One Vote should be read by every citizen who wants to understand what goes on behind the scenes as political parties seek power.
In April White‘s hands, this slice of Gilded Age history about women who headed west to states with more lenient divorce laws is entertaining and enlightening.
Zhuqing Li tells the moving story of her aunts, separated by the Chinese Civil War, and their resilience throughout one of China‘s most fraught centuries.
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