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One of our recommended books for 2020 is 142 Ostriches by April Dávila

142 OSTRICHES

April Dávila

Part love letter to the California desert, part intimate portrait of a family reckoning with drug abuse and denial, April Dávila’s beautifully written debut captures the anxieties of a young…

One of our recommended books for 2019 is 999 by Heather Dune Macadam

999

Heather Dune Macadam

From Heather Dune Macadam, the untold story of the 999 young, unmarried Jewish women who were tricked on March 25, 1942 into boarding the train that became the first official…

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…