Gioia Diliberto’s "Firebrands" visits the Roaring Twenties and beyond, revealing how four women’s efforts shaped the course of American history. When American women won the right to vote in 1920, some politicians assumed they would... Read More

A triumphant antidote to the falsities spread about women’s aging, "Wise Women" is a solace- and life-giving collection of fairy and folk tales. Knowing that older women in beloved tales are too often crones and villains, inculcating... Read More

Amedeo Feniello’s cutthroat book "Naples 1343" reconstructs life and crime in Neapolitan history. Personal and inviting, with language that trades between academic and direct, this is a book built on the idea that the past reverberates... Read More

In Renée Schaeffer’s distinctive novel "Ageless", an immortal woman struggles through centuries of tremendous social, scientific, and political changes. Naissa is born into a loving family in 1850, but she loses them to shellfish... Read More

Peter Cavanagh’s "How Birds Fly" is an enlightening examination of the aerodynamics of bird flight. A rare science book that includes dazzling photographs of birds from around the globe, including hummingbirds, songbirds, raptors, and... Read More

A Chinese photographer in colonial Singapore and a museum archivist forge a connection through their yearning, time-crossing correspondence in Elaine Chiew’s mesmerizing speculative novel "The Light Between Us". In 1920, Tian Wei runs... Read More

In the supernatural novel "Spellbound", passionate lovers are tied to each other across time because of happenstance magic. In Ann Charlotte’s romance novel "Spellbound", a widowed photojournalist discovers her connection to a... Read More

Brash and exuberant, "The Punk Rock Queen of the Jews" is a memoir about faith, emergence, and individuality. Rossi’s lively memoir "The Punk Rock Queen of the Jews" recalls her tumultuous adolescence and years of enforced exile among... Read More