In "Power in the Wild", animal behaviorist Lee Alan Dugatkin examines the evolution of social behavior, with a focus on struggles for power within animal societies. From ants to cuttlefish to wolves, this entertaining book surveys... Read More

About a place, a past, and an imperiled future, Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s poetic memoir "Thin Places" looks back on what it means to have survived the Troubles in Ireland. Ní Dochartaigh, who was born in 1983 at a midway point in the... Read More

A boy who loves dancing perseveres despite naysayers in the encouraging, based in truth picture book The Extraordinarily Ordinary Life of Prince. Based in truth, Prince A. Sanders’s picture book "The Extraordinarily Ordinary Life of... Read More

Alice Carbone Tench’s cookbook "Eating Again" couples delicious flavors with a deep sense of person and place. Tench began to cook as a means of recovering from eating disorders and her loss of identity as wife and mother. This book... Read More

Set in the near future, Mark S. Johnson’s ominous novel "Though the Earth Gives Way" imagines American life in the wake of climate disasters. Elon—alone in a desolate, looted, and ravaged landscape with his thoughts and a shopping... Read More

In Fiona Snyckers’s dark and riveting novel "Lacuna", a young South African woman struggles in the aftermath of a gang rape. Lucy Lurie’s brutal assault is a personal tragedy and the perceived pivotal event of John Coetzee’s novel... Read More

Chocolate Runs Through My Veins is a riveting historical investigation into how the worlds of women and cocoa intersected. Connie Spenuzza’s revelatory feminist history Chocolate Runs Through My Veins covers the agriculture,... Read More

Diane Williams constructs scenes of gentle sadness in the micro entries of her short story collection How High?—That High. Here, even everyday situations, like unconfessed infidelities, slow-moving illnesses, and incompatible... Read More