The Climate Report: The National Climate Assessment
by U.S. Global Change Research Program
Even as the president uses snowstorms to mock the science of climate change, the scientists working for his government quietly do their work, producing a report buried on that most deadly of news days... (Tom)
The Town House
by Norah Lofts
I must acknowledge that this is the most unattractively published of any book I've chosen for Phinney by Post, but don't let the cover (or typeface inside) turn you aside: there is superb storytelling... (Tom)
Where Reasons End
by Yiyun Li
This short, intensely moving novel—an imagined dialogue between a mother and her teenage son after his suicide, written after Li lost her son in the same way—reads as though Li has invented, out of di... (Tom)
You're Snug with Me
by Chitra Soundar and Poonam Mistry
It's our third straight snowy selection for Phinney by Post Kids, and finally it reflects the local weather (and how). That little thumbnail image of the cover can hardly do justice to the intricate b... (Tom)