Chris Dubbs’s "An Unladylike Profession" jumps into the trenches with the women reporters of World War I—groundbreaking journalists who explained the war to readers in the US, and who shared stories from the war’s brutal aftermath.... Read More

In Emily Adrian’s quirky, resonant novel, "Everything Here Is under Control", two women resume the intense friendship of their teen years after more than a decade of estrangement and uncertainty. After giving birth to her first child,... Read More

The seven stories of Chistopher Coake’s realistic and memorable collection "You Would Have Told Me Not To" concern the various stages of failed relationships. Interplays between complicated people’s thoughts and actions carry the... Read More

Will Bashor puts Marie Antoinette’s tumultuous life under the microscope in his historical analysis, Marie Antoinette’s World. Marie Antoinette has long been shrouded in secrecy and scandal, from her marriage to indecisive Louis XVI... Read More

Eleven years of correspondence between a father and his son are collected in "Letters to a Young Pastor"—honest and thoughtful letters about what it takes to be a minister. While any response to Peterson’s letters is missing—save... Read More

The surprising trajectory of the shared economy is laid bare in Juliet B. Schor’s After the Gig. Out of the 2008 financial collapse and into a world of unfulfilling work on the dreaded nine-to-five schedule stepped a new idea, full of... Read More

"The Hardhat Riot" moves, moment by tense moment, through May 8, 1970, a day known as Bloody Friday, which led to the fracturing of the Democratic Party and an opportunity for Richard Nixon. Starting with a glimpse of the fateful hour... Read More

In Robert McCaw’s winding thriller, a conflicted cop wrangles a conspiracy and a family emergency. When a volcanic vent explodes under an elementary school, it leaves ten children dead. There is evidence that people knew about the... Read More