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One of our recommended books for 2019 is Yale Needs Women by Anne Gardiner Perkins

YALE NEEDS WOMEN

Anne Gardiner Perkins

In the summer of 1969, Yale University, the Ivy League institution dedicated to graduating “one thousand male leaders” each year finally decided to open its doors to the nation’s top…

One of our recommended books for 2019 is A Well Behaved Woman by Therese Anne Fowler

A WELL-BEHAVED WOMAN

Therese Anne Fowler

Alva Smith, her southern family destitute after the Civil War, married into one of America’s great Gilded Age dynasties: the newly wealthy but socially shunned Vanderbilts. Ignored by New York’s…

One of our recommended books for 2019 is Conversations with RBG

CONVERSATIONS WITH RBG

Jeffrey Rosen

In her own words, Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers an intimate look at her life and career, through an extraordinary series of conversations with the head of the National Constitution Center….

One of our recommended books for 2019 is Running on the Roof of the World by Jess Butterworth

RUNNING ON THE ROOF OF THE WORLD

Jess Butterworth

A story of adventure, survival, courage, and hope, set in the vivid Himalayan landscape of Tibet and India. Tash lives in Tibet, where as a practicing Buddhist she must follow…

One of our recommended books is This is Happiness by Niall Williams

THIS IS HAPPINESS

Niall Williams

A profound and enchanting new novel from Booker Prize-longlisted author Niall Williams about the loves of our lives and the joys of reminiscing. You don’t see rain stop, but you…

One of our recommended books is Malamander by Thomas Taylor

MALAMANDER

Thomas Taylor and Tom Booth (illustrator)

It’s winter in the town of Eerie-on-Sea, where the mist is thick and the salt spray is rattling the windows of the Grand Nautilus Hotel. Inside, young Herbert Lemon, Lost…