The Bookshop is an entertaining romp through the history of America’s bookstores, paying tribute to dusty stacks, colorful booksellers and the dedicated patrons who have helped shops endure.
Interesting, insightful and impressively intrepid, Frostbite offers compelling food for thought about the role of cold in our lives.
Vicki Valosik’s captivating Swimming Pretty charts the evolution of women’s swimming and aquatic performance.
For centuries, women were discouraged from running. Better Faster Farther chronicles how and why they ran anyway.
In the entertaining Stowaway, Joe Shute explores and exalts the resilient, cooperative, derided and, ultimately, misunderstood rat.
After reading Sarah Thornton’s revelatory Tits Up, you’ll never look at boobs the same way again.
Celebrated feminist crossword creator Anna Shechtman explores the cultural history of the crossword puzzle in relation to her own life.
Aarathi Prasad’s entertaining and enlightening history of silk brims with story and scientific detail, revealing a surprising history well worth knowing.
Benjamin E. Park’s absorbing history of Mormonism, American Zion, effectively argues that the faith’s evolution mirrors the struggle of American society.
Marcia A. Zug’s You’ll Do is an illuminating and informative cultural history of marriage.
Amy Brady uses commentary from food writers, scientists and physicians to illuminate how something as commonplace as ice came to shape America’s history and culture.
This dramatic account of the rise of the American beef industry sheds new light on a mealtime mainstay.
Hugh Eakin’s rapturous storytelling makes Picasso’s War a spellbinding, page-turning read about the fight to bring Picasso’s work to America.
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