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July - September 2023 Issue

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• Featured Review: Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina
• Fiction Recommendations
• Previous Issues

Anthony, Carl Sferrazza.  Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy. 
Auder, Alexandra.  Don’t Call Me Home. 

Balint, Benjamin.  Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History. 
Barber, Charles.  In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took on the US Army. 
Belkin, Lisa.  Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night.  
Betancourt, Manuel.  The Male Gazed: On Hunks, Heartthrobs, and What Pop Culture Taught Me about (Desiring) Men. 
Biggs, Joanna.  A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again.  
Bilger, Burkhard.  Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets.  Ebook
Black, George.  The Long Reckoning: A Story of War, Peace, and Redemption in Vietnam.   
Blackhawk, Ned.  The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History.  Ebook
Brady, Amy.  Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks--A Cool History of a Hot Commodity.  

Cargle, Rachel E.  A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining. 
Chin, Ava.  Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming. 
Chin-Quee, Anthony.  I Can't Save You: A Memoir.  
Chung, Nicole.  A Living Remedy: A Memoir.  Downloadable audiobook
Cozzens, Peter.  A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South.   

Dederer, Claire.  Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma.  

Ellis, Helen.  Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage.  Ebook
England, Vaudine.  Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong. 

Farley, Audrey Clare.  Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America. 
Frankopan, Peter.  The Earth Transformed: An Untold History.  
Freeman, Hadley.  Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia. 
Fridland, Valerie.  Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English.  
Friedman, Jena.  Not Funny: Essays on Life, Comedy, Culture, Et Cetera. 

Geronimus, Arline T.  Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society.  
Grabar, Henry.  Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World. 
Green, Jaime.  The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos.  
Gwynne, S.C.  His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine.  

Hallman, J. C.  Say Anarcha: A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women's Health. 
Harris, Aisha.  Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me.  
Healey, Jonathan.  The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689. 
Hessel, Katy.  The Story of Art Without Men.  
Holley, Santi Elijah.  An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created. 
Holten. Katie.  The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape.  
Hughes, Frieda.  George: A Magpie Memoir.  

Jackson, Cassandra.  The Wreck: A Daughter's Memoir of Becoming a Mother.  
Jamison, Kay Redfield.  Fires in the Dark: Healing the Unquiet Mind.   
Johnson, Scott C. The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius. 

Kelleher, Katy.  The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption.  
Kennedy, Jonathan.  Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues.  Ebook, downloadable audiobook
King, Neil.  American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal.  Downloadable audiobook

Leach, Samantha.  The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia. 
Lee, Julia.  Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America.  
Losos, Jonathan B.  The Cat's Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa.  
Luckerson, Victor.  Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street. 

Mar, Alex.  Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy.  
Marshall, Greg.  Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It.   
May, Gregory.  A Madman's Will: John Randolph, Four Hundred Slaves, and the Mirage of Freedom.  
Myers, Leah.  Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity.  

Ng, Fae Myenne.  Orphan Bachelors: A Memoir.  Ebook

Petri, Alexandra.  Alexandra Petri's US History: Important American Documents (I Made Up). 
Pick-Goslar, Hannah and Dina Kraft.  My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds.  Ebook
Pittard, Hannah.  We Are Too Many: A Memoir (Kind Of).  
Plait, Philip.  Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe. 

Rosen, Jonathan.  The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions.  Ebook

Scott, Jonathan.  Into the Groove: The Story of Sound from Tin Foil to Vinyl.  
Seletzky, Leta McCollough.  The Kneeling Man: My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.  Ebook
Sevigny, Melissa L.  Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon. Downloadable audiobook
Sharpe, Christina.  Ordinary Notes.  
Snyder, Rachel Louise.  Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir.  Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Spalding, Katie.  Edison's Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History's Greatest Geniuses.   
Steinberg, Jonny.  Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage.  
Stille, Alexander.  The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune.
Strasdin, Kate.  The Dress Diary: Secrets from a Victorian Woman's Wardrobe.     

Tobar, Héctor.  Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”.  Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Twenge, Jean M.  Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents--And What They Mean for America's Future.  Ebook

Vaillant, John.  Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World. 
Vance. Ashlee.  When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach.
Velour, Sasha.  The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag.  
Viren, Sarah.  To Name the Bigger Lie: A Memoir in Two Stories. 

Wallace, Daniel.  This Isn’t Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew.  Ebook
Wallace, Max.  After the Miracle: The Political Crusades of Helen Keller.  
Wang, Connie.  Oh My Mother!: A Memoir in Nine Adventures.  
Ward, Ashley.  Where We Meet the World: The Story of the Senses.
Williams, Chad L.  The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War. 
Wong, Jane.  Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City. 

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April - June 2023 Issue

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• Featured Review: I Keep My Exoskeltons to Myself by Marisa Crane
• Fiction Recommendations
• Previous Issues

Abdul-Ahad, Ghaith.  A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War.  
Adee, Sally.  We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds.  
Asgarian, Roxanna.  We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America.  
Auster, Paul.  Bloodbath Nation.  Ebook

Ciuraru, Carmela.  Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages.  
Clode, Danielle.  Koala: A Natural History and an Uncertain Future.  
Collins, Max Allan.  Spillane: King of Pulp Fiction: A Biography.
Cook, Kevin.  Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America’s Modern Militias.  Ebook

Dangarembga, Tsitsi.  Black and Female: Essays. 
Darlington, Miriam.  The Wise Hours: A Journey Into the Wild and Secret World of Owls.  
Dawidziak, Mark.  A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe.  Ebook
Dowd, Michelle.  Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult: A Memoir.  

Egan, Dan.  The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance. 
Eklöf, Johan.  The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms That Sustain Life. 

Garfield, Simon.  All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia. 
Gilman, Priscilla.  The Critic's Daughter: A Memoir. 
Gopnik, Adam.  The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery.  
Gorham, Christopher C.  The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America.  
Guinn, Jeff.  Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and a Legacy of Rage.  

H, Lamya.  Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir. 
Hagerty, Alexa.  Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains.  
Hazard, Leah.  Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began.  
Heisman, Rebecca.  Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration. 

Kagan, Robert.  The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900-1941.  
Kenneally, Christine.  Ghosts of the Orphanage: A Story of Mysterious Deaths, a Conspiracy of Silence, and a Search for Justice.  
King, Dean.  Guardians of the Valley: John Muir and the Friendship That Saved Yosemite.  
Kreiner, Jamie. The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us about Distraction.  
Kwan, Cheuk.  Have You Eaten Yet?: Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World.

Levitt, Dan.  What's Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner.  
Lisle, John.  The Dirty Tricks Department: Stanley Lovell, the Oss, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare.  
Loftis, Larry.  The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie Ten Boom.  

Malcolm, Janet.  Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory.  
Marsh, Henry.  And Finally: Matters of Life and Death. Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Mitenbuler, Reid.  Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age. 

Nuila, Ricardo.  The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine.  
Nussbaum, Martha.  Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility. 

Olson, Lynne.  Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction.  
Orenstein, Peggy.  Unraveling: What I Learned about Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater.  Ebook

Penaluna, Regan.  How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind.  
Penniman, Leah.  Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists.  
Petrzela, Natalia Mehlman.  Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession.  
Popkin, Jim.  Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy--And the Sister She Betrayed.  Ebook

Quart, Alissa.  Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream.  

Ramirez, Janina.  Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It.  
Rayman, Graham and Reuven Blau.  Rikers: An Oral History.
Rivera Garza, Cristina.  Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice.  
Robbins, Alexandra.  The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession.  
Roberts, Rebecca Boggs.  Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson.   
Runstedtler, Theresa.  Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA.  

Saint John, Bozoma.  The Urgent Life: My Story of Love, Loss, and Survival.  
Schulman, Michael.  Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears.  
Schwalbe, Will.  We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship.  
Stewart, James B. and Rachel Abrams.  Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy.  Ebook, downloadable audiobook

Tabor, Nick.  Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created.  
Tate, Christie.  B.F.F.: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found.  
Taylor, Goldie.  The Love You Save: A Memoir.  
Thomas, Joseph Earl.  Sink: A Memoir.  Downloadable audiobook
Thunberg, Greta.  The Climate Book.  Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Tóibín, Colm.  A Guest at the Feast. 
Turner, Marion.  The Wife of Bath: A Biography.  

V (formerly Eve Ensler).  Reckoning.  

Waldstreicher, David.  The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence.  
Webster, Rachel Jamison.  Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family.  
Whitaker, Mark.  Saying It Loud: 1966—The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement. 
Williams, Kidada E.  I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction.  
Wilson, F. Perry.  How Medicine Works and When It Doesn't: Learning Who to Trust to Get and Stay Healthy.  
Wright, Jennifer.  Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist.  

Zernike, Kate.  The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science.