Perry's Black in Blues is a collection of interconnected essays that delves into the complex relationship between the color blue and the Black experience. Perry traces the history and origins of blue, weaving it through significant events like the…
A manuscript from 1912 uncovered by construction workers ends up in the hands of Professor Etsy Beaucarne, who thinks the history within it may finally earn her tenure. The manuscript is a diary written by her great-great-great grandfather, a…
Spanning continents and decades, this haunting, evocative family saga lingers in the memory. The story opens with ten-year-old Louisa and her father walking on the breakwater at night in a small Japanese beach town. Later Louisa wakes up in shallow…
As a teenager, Istvâan is seduced by a married, middle-aged woman who lives in his apartment complex in Hungary, a woman whom he helps with her groceries, but when his adolescent passions kick in, his life takes a dark turn. From there, his life…
Gilliland, a journalist who spent several years as the Argentina correspondent for The Economist, offers readers harrowing, rigorously researched, and absorbing reportage on the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, a group of women whose pregnant daughters and…
Nature writer MacFarlane, drawing inspiration from his local springs near Oxford, sets off on three journeys around the world to explore the question posed by the book's title. (When he asked his young son if he thought rivers were alive, his son…
On the morning of March 3, 1973, drifting peacefully in the Pacific on their beloved yacht, Maralyn and Maurice Bailey are jolted by a sound like a gunshot. They are horrified to discover that a dying whale has struck the ship, creating a lethal…
Roy's difficult mother memoir is on par with both her fiction and her journalism, which is to say, it's spectacular. Mary Roy, a prominent public figure in her own right, was a mercurial and volatile single parent who lashed out at and demeaned her…
McConaghy has a knack for penning lyrical, suspenseful novels featuring natural world settings that center human grief and a changing world. In her third novel, set on a fictional island off the coast of Antarctica, Rowan, a victim of a shipwreck,…
Thirty-something Erica Skyberg is a teacher in rural South Dakota. Recently divorced from her best friend, she is growing weary from the cognitive dissonance of maintaining the facade of being a man. When Abigail Hawkes, a brash, 17-year-old and…
