Written by: Matthew Van Meter In 1966 in a small town in Louisiana, a 19-year-old black man named Gary Duncan pulled his car off the […]
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Written by: Isabel Wilkerson As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the […]
Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close
Written by: Aminata Sow, Ann Friedman A close friendship is one of the most influential and important relationships a human life can contain. Anyone will […]
COVID-19: The Pandemic that Never Should Have Happened and How to Stop the Next One
Written by: Debora MacKenzie In a gripping, accessible narrative, a veteran science journalist lays out the shocking story of how the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic happened […]
Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir
Written by: Lacy Crawford When the elite St. Paul’s School came under state investigation after extensive reports of sexual abuse on campus, Lacy Crawford thought […]
A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America’s First All-Black High School Rowing Team
Written by: Arshay Cooper The moving true story of a group of young men growing up on Chicago’s West side who form the first all-black […]
Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher: Hunting America’s Deadliest Unidentified Serial Killer at the Dawn of Modern Criminology
Written by: Max Allan Collins In the spirit of Devil in the White City comes a true detective tale of the highest standard: the haunting story of […]
The Fascinating World of Dreaming
Last year I read Chloe Benjamin’s The Immortalists (Overdrive Ebook/Audiobook) and absolutely loved it, so when I came across her debut novel, The Anatomy of Dreams (Overdrive […]
Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
Written by: Kurt Anderson During the twentieth century, America managed to make its economic and social systems both more and more fair and more and […]
