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Taylor, Katherine Yeske. She's a Badass: Women in Rock Shaping Feminism. Backbeat: Rowman & Littlefield. Jan. 2024. 256p. ISBN 9781493072545. $34.95. MUSIC Music journalist Taylor provides succinct but dynamic portraits [...]

Shannon, Molly & Sean Wilsey. Hello, Molly! Ecco. Apr. 2022.304p. ISBN 9780063056237. $27.99. MEMOIR Readers picking up actress and comedian Shannon's memoir might be surprised by its contents--starting with the [...]

Bloomfield, Jacob. Drag: A British History. Univ. of California. Aug. 2023. 264p. ISBN 9780520393325. $29.95. HIST Though the title might suggest a broader treatment, this text is focused on specific [...]

Mangione, Lorraine & Donna Luff. Mary Climbs In: The Journeys of Bruce Springsteen's Women Fans. Rutgers Univ. Jun. 2023.252p. ISBN 9781978827189. $24.95. MUSIC The scholarly study of Bruce Springsteen and [...]

BIOGRAPHY Anderson, Darran. Inventory. Farrar. Aug. 2020. 416p. ISBN 9780374277581. $27. MEMOIR As with his previous work. Imaginary Cities, Anderson's personal and generational memoir eschews a straightforward narrative for a [...]

Dederer, Claire. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma. Knopf. Apr. 2023. 288p. ISBN 9780525655114. $28. SOC SCI Building on her Paris Review essay "What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous [...]

The principles of a barrier wall are simple. On one side are yourself and the things you wish to defend and on the other are the dangers you wish to [...]

Hord, Michelle D. The Other Side of Yet: Finding Light in the Midst of Darkness. Atria. Mar. 2022.256p. ISBN 9781982173524. $27. MEMOIR In 2017, facing an impending divorce, Hord's husband [...]

Fabre, Cin. Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street. Holt. Sept. 2022.320p. ISBN 9781250816856. $28.99. MEMOIR The memoir of an NYC-raised former Wall Street broker. As an ambitious 19-year-old, [...]

Roberts, Andrew. The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III. Viking. Nov. 2021.784p. ISBN 9781984879264. $40. BIOG George III of England: cold-hearted, cruel, and villainous? Not so, [...]

*Porter, Billy. Unprotected. Abrams. Oct. 2021. 288p. ISBN 9781419746192. $28. MEMOIR Television and stage star Porter opens his soul in this memoir about his life and career, from his childhood [...]

Biss, Eula. Having and Being Had. Riverhead. Sept. 2020. 336p. ISBN 9780525537458. $26. SOC SCI Biss (No Man's Land; On Immunity), an artist-in-residence at Northwestern University, combines personal narrative with [...]

Valentine, Melissa. The Names of All the Flowers. Feminist. Jul. 2020. 296p. ISBN 9781936932856. pap. $17.95. MEMOIR At 18, Junior Valentine was in prison. At 19, a week after his [...]

Tallis, Nicola. Uncrowned Queen: The Life of Margaret Beaufort, Mother of the Tudors. Basic. Jul. 2020. 416p. ISBN 9781541617872. $32. biog In 1457, at the height of the Wars of [...]

Boin, Douglas. Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome. Norton. Jun. 2020. 272p. ISBN 9780393635690. $26.95. HIST Though at one time a soldier in the Roman [...]

Doherty, Maggie. The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s. Knopf. May 2020.400p. ISBN 9781524733056. $28.95. LIT In 1960, Radcliffe College president Mary Ingraham Bunting [...]

Thompson, Derek. Hit Makers: Why Things Become Popular. Harper. Feb. 2017. 352p. illus. notes, index. ISBN 9781101980323. $28; ebk. ISBN 9781101980347. SOC SCI It's a question to which we'd all [...]

Scott, Michael. Ancient Worlds: A Global History of Antiquity. Basic. Nov. 2016. 448p. illus. maps. notes. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780465094721. $29.99; ebk. ISBN 9780465094738. HIST Historical studies of the ancient [...]

Goodwin, George. Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America's Founding Father. Yale Univ. Feb. 2016. 352p. illus. notes, bibliog. index. ISBN 9780300220247. $32.50. BIOG Between 1757 and 1775, [...]

Kipnis, Laura. Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus. Harper. Apr. 2017. 256p. bibliog. ISBN 9780062657862. $26.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062657886. SOC SCI A cultural critic and feminist, Kipnis (Men: Notes [...]

Norwich, John Julius. Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions That Forged Modern Europe. Atlantic. Apr. 2017.304p. illus. maps, bibliog. index. ISBN 9780802126634. [...]

Bicheno, Hugh. Battle Royal: The Wars of Lancaster and York; 1450-1464. Pegasus. Jan. 2017.416p. illus. maps, bibliog. index. ISBN 9781681773063. $27.95; ebk. ISBN 9781681773711. HIST Historian Bicheno (Rebels & Redcoats) [...]

Dillon, Michael/Lobzang Jivaka. Out of the Ordinary: A Life of Gender and Spiritual Transitions. Fordham Univ. Nov. 2016.272p. ed. by Jacob Lau & Cameron Partridge, notes, index. ISBN 9780823274802. $34.95. [...]

Goldsmith, Kenneth. Wasting Time on the Internet. Harper Perennial. Aug. 2016.256p. notes. ISBN 9780062416476. pap. $14.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062416483. SOC SCI How guilty should you feel after watching your 20th [...]

Seward, Desmond. The Last White Rose. Pegasus. Apr. 2014. 448p. illus. notes. bibliog. index. ISBN 9781605985497. $28.95. HIST Henry Tudor's defeat of Richard III at Bosworth Field is commonly thought [...]

Whitelock, Anna. The Queen's Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth's Court. Sarah Crichton: Farrar. Feb. 2014. 480p. illus. notes. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780374239787. $28. BIOG Whitelock (public history, Royal Holloway, [...]

Lethbridge, Lucy. Servants: A Downstairs History of Britain from the Nineteenth-Century to Modern Times. Norton. Nov. 2013. 400p. illus. notes. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780393241099. $27.95. HIST One of the most [...]

Spivey, Nigel. The Classical World: The Foundations of the West and the Enduring Legacy of Antiquity. Pegasus. Jul. 2016. 288p. maps, index. ISBN 9781681771519. $27.95; ebk. ISBN 9781681771915. HIST In [...]

Browning, Frank. The Fate of Gender: Nature, Nurture, and the Human Figure. Bloomsbury. Jun. 2016.320p. bibliog. index. ISBN 9781620406199. $28. SOC SCI The title of former National Public Radio science [...]

Hawksley, Lucinda. Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter: A Biography of Princess Louise. Thomas Dunne: St. Martin's. Dec. 2015. 384p. notes. bibliog. index. ISBN 9781250059321. $27.99; ebk. ISBN 9781466863903. BIOG Intending to [...]

Horspool, David. Richard III: A Ruler and His Reputation. Bloomsbury USA. Dec. 2015. 336p. illus. notes. bibliog. index. ISBN 9781620405093. $30; ebk. ISBN 9781620405116. BIOG Whether as a villainous usurper [...]

Boardman, John. The Greeks in Asia. Thames & Hudson. Jun. 2015. 240p. illus. maps. notes. index. ISBN 9780500252130. $50. HIST Boardman's (emeritus, classical art and archaeology, Lincoln Coll., Oxford Univ.; [...]

Fletcher, Catherine. The Divorce of Henry VIII: The Untold Story from Inside the Vatican. Palgrave Macmillan. Jun. 2012. c.288p, illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780230341517. $28. HIST Given the amount of [...]

Jeal, Tim. Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure. Yale Univ. Nov. 2011. c.544p, illus, maps. bibliog, index. ISBN 9780300149357. $32.50. HIST Having authored [...]

Freisenbruch, Annelise. Caesars' Wives: The First Ladies of the Roman Empire. S & S. Nov. 2010. c.368p, bibliog. ISBN 9781416583035. $28. HIST The calculating Livia; the licentious Messalina; the devout [...]

Birnbaum, Phyllis. Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy: The Story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the Cross-Dressing Spy Who Commanded Her Own Army. Columbia Univ. (Asia Perspectives: History, Society & Culture). Apr. 2015.272p. photos, [...]

Cadbury, Deborah. Princes at War: The Bitter Battle Inside Britain's Royal Family in the Darkest Days of WWII. Public Affairs. Mar. 2015. 384p. photos, notes, bibliog. index. ISBN 9781610394031. $28.99; [...]

Standage, Tom. An Edible History of Humanity. Walker. May 2009. c.304p. illus. index. ISBN 978-0-8027-1588-3. $26. HIST ANTHRO Standage's previous book, A History of the World in 6 Glasses, theorized [...]

Marozzi, Justin. The Way of Herodotus: Travels with the Man Who Invented History. Da Capo. Jan. 2009. c.352p. maps. bibliog. ISBN 978-0-306-81621-5. $27.50. HIST Herodotus is a somewhat controversial figure, [...]

Seward, Desmond. The Demon's Brood: A History of the Plantagenet Dynasty. Pegasus. Sept. 2014.364p. notes, index. ISBN 9781605986180. $28.95; ebk. ISBN 9781605987064. HIST The Plantagenet dynasty, a union of several [...]

McKegney, Sam. Masculindians: Conversations About Indigenous Manhood. Michigan State Univ. 2014.224p. notes. index. ISBN 9781611861297. $29.95. SOC SCI The genesis of this title, according to McKegney (English, cultural studies, Queen's [...]

* Brendon, Piers. The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997. Knopf. 2008. c.816p. photogs. index. ISBN 978-0-307-26829-7. $35. HIST At its height, the British Empire covered nearly a [...]

Man, John. Samurai: A History. Morrow. Mar. 2014. 336p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780062202673. pap. $14.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062202680. HIST Saigo Takamori (1828-77) was one of Japan's most colorful and [...]

Campbell, Gordon. The Hermit in the Garden: From Imperial Rome to Ornamental Gnome. Oxford Univ. Jun. 2013. 304p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780199696994. $29.95. HIST Would you be willing to [...]

Guy, John. The Children of Henry VIII. Oxford Univ. Jul. 2013. 272p. illus. notes. index. ISBN 9780192840905. $27.95; ebk. ISBN 9780191655944. BIOG. Tudor historian Guy (fellow, Clare Coll., Univ. of [...]

Shulman, Nicola. Graven with Diamonds: The Many Lives of Thomas Wyatt: Poet, Lover, Statesman, and Spy in the Court of Henry VIII. Steerforth Pr. Feb. 2013. 368p. ISBN 9781586422073. pap. [...]

Cooper, John. The Queen's Agent: Sir Francis Walsingham and the Rise of Espionage in Elizabethan England. Pegasus. Feb. 2013. 448p. illus, notes, index. ISBN 9781605984100. $27.95. HIST Devoted secretary, Machiavellian [...]

* Rubin, Rachel Lee. Well Met: Renaissance Faires and the American Counterculture. New York Univ. Nov. 2012. c.352p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780814771389. $35. SOC SCI Begun by schoolteacher Phyllis [...]

Brown, Peter. Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD. Princeton Univ. Oct. 2012. c.806p, illus. maps. [...]

Classen, Constance. The Deepest Sense: A Cultural History of Touch. Univ. of Illinois. (Studies in Sensory History). 2012. c.296p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780252034930. $80. SOC SCI Humans have always [...]