A divorcée empty-nester begins a consuming affair with a younger jazz musician in "After David", Catherine Texier’s novel about the potency of midlife longing. Eve’s life story can be compartmentalized into periods: her... Read More

Two boys survive the world’s end while fighting for their growing romance in Paul Michael Winters’s post-apocalyptic novel "Together in a Broken World". Following global collapse, most of the population is either dead or zombified.... Read More

In L. D. Lapinski’s affirming novel "Jamie", a fight for gender equality leads to greater community understanding. In Jamie’s hometown, there are two middle schools to choose from: one for boys and one for girls. But Jamie is... Read More

Filled with fascinating astronomy-related facts, "Chasing the Stars" covers the first century-plus of the University of Wisconsin’s Washburn Observatory and the science it inspired. Built on a Dakota effigy mound in the 1880s, the... Read More

A magisterial tome on the international negotiations that shaped modern American history, Stuart E. Eizenstat’s "The Art of Diplomacy" gets down to the brass tacks of foreign affairs. An ode to diplomacy’s power and fickleness, this... Read More

The story of the Garden of Eden gets juicy in this picture book that looks at the tale from a new perspective: that of the fruit. Rich, saturated greens, reds, and purples pair with swirling patterns and layered lines to create a... Read More

"The Antipodean Express" is Gregory Hill’s breezy, engaging memoir about a three-month couple’s trip taken mostly by train, from New Zealand to Spain. This is an entertaining daily account of the 13,000-kilometer trip that the couple... Read More

A former confidence man confronts a haunted ancient Egyptian artifact while running from his past in Megaera C. Lorenz’s novel "The Shabti". Dashiel, a former fraudulent medium, makes a meager living holding shows revealing his former... Read More