In “After the Last Border,” Jessica Goudeau offers a searing history of this nation’s response to humanitarian crises while recounting the stories of two refugees.
In his latest book, Edward Ball retraces an ancestor’s involvement with the Ku Klux Klan in order to shed light on the country’s legacy of white supremacy.
In “Owls of the Eastern Ice,” Jonathan Slaght recounts his quest to track down the elusive Blakiston’s fish owl, a journey that will push him to the edge of endurance.
“Wandering in Strange Lands” traces the author’s ancestry — and the history of African-American oppression — along the footsteps of the Great Migration.
In “Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything,” a Mexican-American girl lights candles in the desert for her deported mother. Then a spacecraft arrives.
In James Bird’s “The Brave,” a boy bullied for his numeric mind undergoes a metamorphosis when he’s sent to live on a reservation with his Native American mother.
Authors explore the way the invisible world impacts our lives, from bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics to the beneficial biodiversity on our skin.
Authors explore the way the invisible world impacts our lives, from bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics to the beneficial biodiversity on our skin.