In Radha Vatsal’s exciting crime novel "No. 10 Doyers Street", a reporter navigates the diverse political climate of New York City. In the early 1900s, Archana—an Indian immigrant married to a white doctor—is swept up in the... Read More

As a young woman in 1972, Liese Greensfelder took what was supposed to be a short-term summer job working on a sheep farm in the mountains of rural Norway. She recounts what happened instead in her engaging memoir "Accidental Shepherd".... Read More

Using varied stories to lead by example, the self-help book "Outsmart the Learning Curve" guides ordinary people toward extraordinary lives. Joe Sipher’s self-development guide "Outsmart the Learning Curve" explores how ordinary people... Read More

The exciting fantasy novel "The Witchfinder’s Sacrifice" wraps its suspense up in family histories and a longstanding clash among witches. In Rande Goodwin’s entertaining supernatural novel "The Witchfinder’s Sacrifice", a teenager... Read More

Eve Driver and Tom Osborn’s spirited, conversational book What We Can’t Burn concerns how activism and entrepreneurship might interact in the struggle to mitigate the climate crisis. Driver and Osborn met as Harvard classmates. They... Read More

In Jessica Mills’s absorbing biographical novel "The English Chemist", the scientist responsible for discovering the illusive structure of DNA is denied recognition due to the duplicity of her colleagues. Rosalind Franklin, a scientist... Read More

In Afabwaje Kurian’s novel "Before the Mango Ripens", Nigerians fight against white American missionaries for control over their country’s future. “Transition [is] afoot in Nigeria” in 1971, just after the nation’s... Read More

In Lynn Stegner’s novel "The Half-Life of Guilt", a couple’s personal and professional relationship is tested as they protest the endangerment of a whale population. Clair is a biologist and botanist who grew up on her family’s... Read More