This book offers lots of great ideas about making your yard more nature- and bird-friendly, with some very practical tips, including how to reduce the monoculture of lawns, and how to choose the right native plants for your region. —Ray B. in Boston, MA

Inspired by her own successes and failures, Melati Wijsen takes you on her journey of becoming a changemaker and the 100 lessons she learned along the way. Change Starts Now shares an insight into what it was like for a 12-year-old girl growing up in the movement, and how anyone, anywhere, no matter their age, can get involved, too.

In this book Eve O. Schaub, humorist and stunt memoirist extraordinaire, tackles her most difficult challenge to date: garbage. Convincing her husband and two daughters to go along with her, Schaub attempts the seemingly impossible: living in the modern world without creating any trash at all. For an entire year. And- as it turns out- during a pandemic. —Recommended by Cindy in Cornish, NH

A fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdom. Bitch is a wonderful deep dive into all the ways the biological world can remind us we have much to learn about gender. — Maya R in Corpus Christi, TX