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Pioneering oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer seized the
world's imagination when he and his worldwide network of beachcomber
volunteers traced ocean currents using thousands of sneakers and plastic
bath toys spilled from storm-tossed freighters. Now, for the first
time, Ebbesmeyer tells the story of his lifelong quest to solve the
sea's mysteries. He recounts how flotsam has changed the course of
history. He reveals the rhythmic and harmonic order in the vast oceanic
currents and uncovers the astonishing story of flotsam, altering the
world's view of trash, the ocean, and our global environment.

Urban and rural collide in this wry, inspiring memoir of a woman who turned a vacant lot in downtown Oakland into a thriving farm.

A finely crafted debut, winner of the 2009 Bakeless Nonfiction Prize
Kim Dana Kupperman's essays plumb the emotional and spiritual depths of a transitory life. Her episodic "missives" cover territory from the chaos of a frenetic childhood to love affairs, failed and otherwise, to the Chernobyl nuclear accident, to an ocean-crossing search for her Eastern European roots.