About eminent painter Georgia O’Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer, a trailblazer of the American suffragist movement, Liza Bennett’s rich biography "Georgia and Anita" covers a dynamic, tragic friendship. O’Keeffe and Pollitzer forged an... Read More

In Torben Kuhlmann’s lovely illustrated novel "Earhart", a field mouse builds an airplane to fly around the world, mirroring the exploits of the famous aviatrix. A mouse inventor who manufactures machines in her underground workshop... Read More

Bonnie Yochelson’s enlightening biography "Too Good to Get Married" captures the life and work of nineteenth-century lesbian photographer Alice Austen. Born in March 1866, Austen, an amateur photographer living among elite Staten... Read More

Kimm Topping’s heartening collection "Generation Queer" celebrates young LGBTQ+ activists who shifted cultural stereotypes about who is allowed to lead. Centering organizers, artists, and educators whose work began prior to the age of... Read More

Swift and concise, the biography "Out of the Tub" reintroduces William Howard Taft as a president worth celebrating. Carol A. Josel’s "Out of the Tub" is a compact yet revelatory biography of William Howard Taft, the only president of... Read More