Birding to Change the WorldIn this uplifting environmental memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, social change, and protecting the environment. Trish OKane is an accidental ornithologist. In her nearly two decades writing about justice as an investigative journalist, she'd never paid attention to nature. But then Hurricane Katrina destroyed her New Orleans home, sending her into an emotional tailspin. Enter a scrappy cast of feathered

as written by Renée Watson

and millet

and can categorically say that no one measures up to Tom Valeska

• Charles Causley

tatted biker comes into Abbie’s bar

After a near-psychotic episode under the spell of Bartók

reputations

invites her to an after-school circle group

As he guided his Buick out of his parking spot

—Jeffrey Zaslow

a grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next door

Reminiscent of novels by Nick Hornby