LINKING DIGESTION AND MOOD, current research demonstrates powerful, previously unexplored connections between microbiota and the brain. B PLUS

THE PSYCHOBIOTIC REVOLUTION : MOOD, FOOD, AND THE NEW SCIENCE OF THE GUT-BRAIN CONNECTION
National Geographic Society
2017

DEEP-SPACE ADVENTURE: A REVOLUTION on a “generation ship” fuses spacefarers and intelligent machines. Exciting! B PLUS

MEDUSA UPLOADED
Tor Books
2018

WHIMSICAL, SERIOUS PARABLE about a sudden change in the animal world. Charming and thought-provoking. B PLUS

DOWNDRIFT (PAPERBACK)
Three Rooms Press
2018

A FATHER AND SON STRUGGLE with the same demons (racism, toxic masculinity, alcohol, depression) in different ways. Clearsighted poet’s memoir. B PLUS

AIR TRAFFIC : A MEMOIR OF AMBITION AND MANHOOD IN AMERICA
Knopf Publishing Group
2018

A WRITER AND HIS BROTHER, bonded by a rough childhood, connect despite very different adulthoods. Lovely, loving memoir. B PLUS

WHAT DROWNS THE FLOWERS IN YOUR MOUTH (HARDCOVER)
University of Wisconsin Press
2018

A WILD FEVER DREAM of a novel takes on revenge, racism, love and hate between women, all in an alternate, apocalyptic America. B PLUS

HEARTLAND (PAPERBACK)
Restless Books
2018

LANGUID, RAW GEM of a novel tells the story of a lost girl and her equally untethered mother in spellbinding prose. B PLUS

GUN LOVE|HARDCOVER
Crown/Archetype
2018

FLIPPING THE SCRIPT on “everything happens for a reason”: a divinity school professor’s cancer diagnosis teaches her the inscrutable nature of suffering. B PLUS

EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON (HARDCOVER)
Random House
2018

A “RED-DIAPER BABY’S” Communist childhood inspires an adult life of activism for civil rights and economic equality. Affable, impassioned memoir. B PLUS

HISTORY LESSONS: A MEMOIR OF GROWING UP IN AN AMERICAN COMMUNIST FAMILY|PAPERBACK
Xlibris Corporation
2017

AN IRREVERENT HISTORY OF FOOD combines jokes, anecdotes, and images from the British Library’s glorious collections. B PLUS

FOOD FIGHTS & CULTURE WARS : A SECRET HISTORY OF TASTE
Overlook Pr
2017