The Hidden Life of Dogs
A Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes : North America North of Mexico
The Grail Bird : Hot On the Trail of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker
Old Friends
How Doctors Think
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. SignatureReviewed by Perri KlassI wish I had read this book when I was in medical school, and I'm glad I've read it now. Most readers will knowJerome Groopman from his essays in the New Yorker, which take on a wide variety of complex medical conditions, evocatively communicating the tensions and […]
Rainstorm
Publishers Weekly Like her previous titles (Museum Trip; The Red Book), Lehman's new book follows a lone child on a magical wordless journey. But this one celebrates a slightly more plausible trip, and offers its hero friendship. As the book opens, a boy dressed neatly in short pants and a tie listlessly kicks his ball […]
The Welsh Girl
Library Journal: This debut novel by an award-winning short story writer is set during World War II in northern Wales, where German POWs are held in a low-security prison. The intertwining stories involve a farm girl named Esther, who becomes pregnant after being raped by an English soldier; German POW Karsten, who is ashamed of […]
Quest For the Tree Kangaroo
Readers meet the elusive Matschie's tree kangaroo, who makes its home in the ancient trees of Papua New Guinea's cloud forest. Full-color photos.
The Lives of Rocks : Stories
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. Nature is as much a character in this sterling collection of 10 short stories as are any of the oddly off-center but otherwise endearing people who inhabit it. Bass writes with concern about the environment (Caribou Rising), and that same passion infuses his fiction (The Hermit's Story). In "Titan" a […]
Horns and Wrinkles
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. Bullies beware! In the town of Blue Wing, Minn., on the banks of the Mississippi River, 12-year-old Claire watches with fascination as her mean cousin Duke grows a rhinoceros horn after throwing Claire and her pet turtle off a bridge. Debut novelist Helgerson, through the heroine's first-person narration, does a […]