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Nonfiction<\/h2>\n

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\"Book<\/p>\n

Reefs of Time<\/em>
\n\u200bWhat Fossils Reveal About Coral Survival<\/em><\/h3>\n

By Lisa S. Gardiner, M.F.A. \u201913\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Princeton University Press
\nJune 10, 2025
\nA Scientific American<\/i> Staff Favorite Book of the Year<\/p>\n

How fossilized reefs hold clues to the survival of corals in the Anthropocene.<\/b><\/p>\n

With rising global temperatures, pollution, overfishing, ocean acidification, and other problems caused by humans, there\u2019s no question that today\u2019s coral reefs are in trouble. As predictions about the future of these ecosystems grow increasingly dire, scientists are looking in an unlikely place for new ways to save corals: the past. The reefs of yesteryear faced challenges too, from changing sea level to temperature shifts, and understanding how they survived and when they faltered can help guide our efforts to help ensure a future for reefs.<\/p>\n

Lisa Gardiner weaves together the latest cutting-edge science with stories of her expeditions to tropical locales to show how fossils and other reef remains offer tantalizing glimpses of how corals persisted through time, and how this knowledge can guide our efforts to ensure a future for these remarkable organisms. Gardiner takes readers on an excursion into \u201cthe shallow end of deep time\u201d\u2014when marine life was much like today\u2019s yet unaffected by human influence\u2014to explore the cities of fossilized limestone left behind by corals and other reef life millennia ago. The changes in reefs today are unlike anything ever seen before, but the fossil record offers hope that the coral reefs of tomorrow can weather the environmental challenges that lie ahead.<\/p>\n

A breathtaking journey of scientific discovery,\u202fReefs of Time<\/i>\u202freveals how lessons from the past can help us to chart a path forward for coral reefs struggling for survival in an age of climate crisis and mass extinction.<\/p>\n

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\"Book<\/p>\n

The Fight for Sex Ed<\/em>
\nThe Century-Long Battle Between Truth and Doctrine<\/em><\/h3>\n

By Margaret Myers, M.F.A. \u201918\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Beacon Press
\nAugust 12, 2025<\/p>\n

The first comprehensive trade history of sex ed in American schools\u2014and an impassioned call to reform sex ed into a powerful tool for reproductive justice and social equality.<\/b><\/p>\n

The U.S. has some of the highest rates of STIs and teen pregnancies in the industrialized world. A comprehensive sex education curriculum\u2014which teaches facts on contraception, prophylactics, consent, and STIs\u2014has been available since the \u201990s. Yet the majority of states require that sex education stress abstinence, and 22 states do not require sex ed in public schools at all.<\/p>\n

In The Fight for Sex Ed<\/i>, writer, advocate, and historian Margaret Myers shows us how we got here. While the earliest calls for sex ed came from a coalition of religious leaders and doctors at the turn of the century who sought to control the prevalence of STIs, the advent of antibiotics and modern condoms meant that abstinence was no longer good public health policy. The religious right, however, continued to frame it as such, using its impressive machinery to replace scientific facts with conservative Christian values.<\/p>\n

Because sex ed is not mandated at the federal level, these battles have played out locally throughout the decades: through rigged school boards, administrative oustings, court cases, unjust firings, scare tactics, and threats. Myers also shows how the religious right has worked to narrow the discourse around sex ed, often dictating the terms of debate almost entirely.<\/p>\n

What we teach young people has serious ramifications for reproductive justice, LGBTQ+ rights, gender equality, and public health. Sex education lies at the intersection of these hugely important cultural forces, yet it has been largely invisible. This book illuminates its potential\u2014and its power.<\/p>\n

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\"Book<\/p>\n

Boss Brooks<\/em>
\nA True Story of Fraud, Family, and Forgiveness From Tennessee to Texas<\/em><\/h3>\n

By Kathy Bingham Turner and Leon Alligood, M.F.A. \u201907<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

University of Tennessee Press
\nNovember 25, 2025<\/p>\n

True crime meets family memoir in this gripping story of faked death.<\/b><\/p>\n

In 1931, Boss Bingham, the head cashier of Hardin County Bank in Saltillo, TN, faked his death from a fiery auto accident and fled west to escape allegations of fraud and embezzlement. While his three children believed he was dead, Bingham reinvented himself as Marvin Lester Brooks, a rancher in Sherwood, TX, where he married and raised a second family. Upon his death four decades later, he became a man with two tombstones.<\/p>\n

In Boss Brooks: A True Story of Fraud, Family, and Forgiveness From Tennessee to Texas<\/i>, Bingham\u2019s granddaughter Kathy Bingham Turner and journalist Leon Alligood uncover the truth about Boss\u2019s deception and explore the impacts on both his families. Through meticulous research and personal reflections, the authors delve into the history of rural Tennessee and Texas, revealing the complex legacy of a man whose final confession came only after suffering a stroke in 1972.<\/p>\n

A gripping memoir of family secrets revealed, Boss Brooks<\/i> offers a compelling blend of historical context and personal discovery. Turner and Alligood have produced a captivating saga that helps us understand the multifaceted nature of family legacies.<\/p>\n

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Poetry<\/h2>\n

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\"Book<\/p>\n

World of Dew<\/i><\/h3>\n

By Lindsay Stuart Hill \u201909<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

University of Wisconsin Press
\nNovember 11, 2025
\nWinner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry<\/p>\n

How do we make sense of our suffering? World of Dew<\/i> grapples with this question by embracing impermanence\u2014the death of a loved one, the transmutation of an old belief, the adoption of a new culture. Moving from the tide pools of Maine to the streets of Hyderabad, Lindsay Stuart Hill entwines grief and awe, beauty and violence, truth and delusion. These poems form a scrapbook of missing girls, clothes drying on a line, and lingering romances. This is the world of dew\u2014a gorgeous and fragile cosmos where we know nothing lasts, and yet we remain\u2014questioning, dreaming, hoping.<\/p>\n

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\"Book<\/p>\n

America\u2019s Future<\/em>
\nPoetry & Prose in Response to Tomorrow<\/em><\/h3>\n

Edited by Jona Colson \u201901<\/span><\/strong> and Caroline Bock<\/p>\n

Washington Writers\u2019 Publishing House
\nSeptember 9, 2025<\/p>\n

America\u2019s Future: poetry and prose in response to tomorrow<\/i> features the work of 164 bold, thought-provoking writers, including an opening speech, published here for the first time, by Congressman Jamie Raskin of Maryland; poetry by master poet E. Ethelbert Miller in collaboration with Miho Kinnas; essays by Marvin Kalb and Bethanne Patrick; and short stories by Mary Kay Zuravleff, Kathleen Wheaton, and more. The anthology arrives at an urgent moment in our nation\u2019s history, when many are anxiously questioning: What are the possibilities for the future? Some pieces turn to our past, reckoning with the wounds we still carry in today\u2019s scars before questioning the future. Others turn their gaze forward, imagining the ways hope and reinvention can carve new paths.<\/p>\n

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Fiction<\/h2>\n

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\"Book<\/p>\n

The Winter of the Dollhouse<\/i><\/h3>\n

By Laura Amy Schlitz \u201977, Honorary Doctor of Letters \u201913\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Candlewick Press
\nSeptember 2, 2025<\/p>\n

This captivating coming-of-age story is touching, funny, and beautifully layered, with a fairy-tale ending that only Newbery medalist Laura Amy Schlitz could deliver.<\/b><\/p>\n

On a gloomy November night, 11-year-old Tiphany Stokes saves an old lady from collapsing in the street. An antique doll named Gretel watches them, longing for Tiph to rescue her from life in a shop window. Though none of these three characters realizes it, their worlds are about to change: Gretel will no longer be a precious prisoner. The old lady\u2014is she a witch?\u2014will discover the secret hidden in her long-neglected dollhouse. And Tiph\u2014whose parents rejoice that she is \u201cnever any trouble\u201d\u2014will become a thief, a dog walker, an actor, and, best of all, a friend.<\/p>\n

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\"Book<\/p>\n

Bethlehem Road<\/em>
\nStories of Immigration and Exile<\/em><\/h3>\n

By Judy Lev, M.F.A. \u201901\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

She Writes Press, distributed by Simon & Schuster
\nOctober 21, 2025<\/p>\n

For fans of Andr\u00e9 Aciman, Omer Friedlander, and Ayelet Tsabari, these 12 stories convey the power, magic, and pain of place\u2014one iconic street in Jerusalem where immigrants young and old struggle to find themselves between the years 1967 and 1999.<\/b><\/p>\n

Jerusalem\u2019s Bethlehem Road\u2014between \u201cthe mountain of the Lord\u201d and the manger\u2014provides the stage for Judy Lev\u2019s post-1967 immigrant characters. On this main artery the protagonists of these 12 stories work through their quandaries of who they are, what they left behind, and who they can become by immigrating to Israel. A pregnant woman walks to Bethlehem because she believes she is carrying a savior. A single woman buys an apartment on Bethlehem Road and, through a surprising meeting, learns the property comes with a tragic political history. Both the binding of Isaac and the Holocaust echo on Bethlehem Road and its biblically named side streets, confounding and confusing immigrants to Israel from English-speaking countries. Some leave. Those who stay struggle with the challenges of belonging and longing, of immigration and exile.<\/p>\n

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Faculty Book Chapter<\/h2>\n

\u201c\u2018To Call It a Zoo Would Be Unkind to Animals\u2019: How Cable Television Came to Miami\u201d<\/h3>\n

By Professor of Communication and Media Studies Daniel Marcus, in Local TV: Histories, Communities, and Aesthetics<\/i>, edited by Lauren Herold and Annie Laurie Sullivan<\/p>\n

University of Georgia Press
\nOctober 15, 2025<\/p>\n

Local TV<\/i> offers critical analyses of an expansive range of practices, policies, and debates in local television histories from the United States. \u201cTo Call It a Zoo\u201d explores the creation of the cable television system in Miami, FL, in 1981, a sequence of events so ridden with scandal that the political machinations and financial shenanigans that pervaded the granting of cable franchises across the country were for once made visible to the public. The piece also explores the difficulties of researching and writing on local media policies and regulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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