A triumphant antidote to the falsities spread about women’s aging, "Wise Women" is a solace- and life-giving collection of fairy and folk tales. Knowing that older women in beloved tales are too often crones and villains, inculcating... Read More

Colorful hearts and stars spatter the pages of this celebratory picture book that honors the bond between mother and child. A mother dreams about what her child may accomplish or become and never forgets to acknowledge the many wonders... Read More

Amedeo Feniello’s cutthroat book "Naples 1343" reconstructs life and crime in Neapolitan history. Personal and inviting, with language that trades between academic and direct, this is a book built on the idea that the past reverberates... Read More

Formidable wives contend with persecution and past treacheries in Jill Hammer’s intricate fantasy novel "The Moonstone Covenant", set in a cosmopolitan principality. Moonstone is a place marked by simmering religious and cultural... Read More

The life and work of a movie star and fashion icon are recounted in Michele Botton’s graphic biography "Audrey Hepburn". Hepburn was known for her films and sense of style, but the book reveals that there was much more to her.... Read More

In Tom Pyun’s biting novel "Something Close to Nothing", two exes learn to accept the imperfect but wonderful world as it is. Wynn and Jared seemed to have it all: a nice house, a successful long-term relationship, and, thanks to a... Read More

Karen Bloom Gevirtz’s compelling history book The Apothecary’s Wife covers the commodification of medicine and the sidelining of women in medical history. In the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, the Scientific... Read More

A commonsense guide to what the United States government actually does, Jeff Fleischer’s "Civic Minded" demystifies subjects at the heart of contemporary political discourse and creates a groundwork of facts for everyday citizens.... Read More