BIOENGINEERED ANIMALS?  ENGAGING overview of the past, present, and near future of high-tech beasties.

HUGELY ENTERTAINING REVIEW of baseball’s least competent players. Clever fun, well researched. #beachread

AMAZING STORY OF THE real-life 1889 race around the world between journalists Nellie Bly, Elizabeth Bisland.

THEATER AND MAGIC HISTORIAN Jim Steinmeyer looks into the inspirations for Bram Stoker’s DRACULA. Spooky fun!

ENGAGING HISTORY LOOKS at eight 19th-century US women attorneys, reveals much about challenges they faced.

THE EVER-HILARIOUS LAURIE NOTARO is back with another book of musings on the ridiculousness of humanity. Yay!

A TV PRODUCER’S CHARMINGLY neurotic tales of his family, his work, and the rarefied world of celebrities.

TAIWANESE-AMERICAN FOOD CELEBRITY Eddie Huang’s memoir is candid, irreverent, and funny as hell.  Sharp stuff!

A WRITER’S STARTLINGLY CANDID memoir of her marriage and its ending, of her infidelities and her husband’s.

SEEKING A “PROMISED LAND” in Israel, Africa, and the US South, a writer looks compellingly at race and faith.