Bookshelf

(Boston: Everidge Press, 2019)
A murder mystery combines with a story of heroism and betrayal — all taking place in Boston’s old South End. The author invites readers to travel back in time as he explores life in the rented rooms and funky old bars of a dying neighborhood.

(Winchester, United Kingdom: Business Books, 2021).
The author, a third-generation co-owner of a plastic bag manufacturing company, takes readers along on his journey to eight states, three national parks, and three countries as he experiences the life-changing education and adventures that led him to finding sustainability for his business and himself. The book won a Gold Award from the Nonfiction Authors Association.

(Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2020).
Having retired after 45 years of university teaching, the author has released his 12th scholarly book, one in which he discusses U.S. policies toward Latin America during a critical period of the Cold War. One reviewer noted that he “proves tough but fair. He pulls no punches against Kissinger’s vicious support for dictators. Yet Rabe also appreciates the former secretary of state’s open-mindedness on issues ranging from economics to the Panama Canal.”

(Kansas City, Mo.: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2021)
These microstories explore the pitfalls and triumphs of dating as a millennial. Part I (portions of which take place at Hamilton) introduces readers to a college relationship that stretches from New York City to Texas and rips apart. “Part II is what happens after — the gritty, lonely, and sometimes dazzling world of dating in New York City: fix-ups, first dates, third dates, many, many Bumble dates, one terrible Tinder date, the often strangeness of two strangers, the often thrill of two strangers, and even one glorious cab driver who doubles as a love psychic,” the publisher noted.

(Claremont, N.H.: Laurel Elite Books, 2021).
“Meadowlands is a compilation of haiku and photographs inspired by walking the meadow paths in my little corner of the world,” the author notes. “I started writing haiku and taking photos during the COVID-19 pandemic as a way to both interpret and find solace in the beauty of nature.”

(Little Cottage Press, 2020).

Beautifully illustrated by Mariia Luzina, this picture book teaches both young children and their adult readers the history behind different names for the moon, from January’s Wolf Moon to June’s Strawberry Moon to the Harvest Moon of September, all in lively rhyme.

(Grey Cap Books, 2020 and 2021)

In a dystopian world, a citizen’s value is determined by the color of their cap. For many, life goes on as usual, but for Pinkcaps born into a life of prostitution, the demands are too high. The series follows the life of Grey Alcott, a Redcap nurse, who is condemned to a life as a Pinkcap after trying to flee the country. But as the government tightens its grip on the lower castes, Grey and her newfound friends must fight back if they want to survive.

(New York and London: The New Press, 2021).
The author spent years traveling the globe — from Liberia to Indonesia, India to Brazil — reporting on the human and environmental impacts of the growing palm oil industry. Her book blends history, science, politics, and food as seen through the people whose lives have been upended by this hidden ingredient. As Publishers Weekly noted: “Vividly describing people and places damaged by the palm oil industry, Zuckerman establishes a through line connecting 19th-century imperialism to the exploitative practices of today’s multinational corporations. This deeply reported account sounds the alarm loud and clear.” The author, a former deputy editor of Gourmet, is the recipient of a James Beard Journalism Award for Feature Writing.

(Seattle: Marrowstone Press, 2021)
This book of poems includes “many voices in many places, like snapshots saved in a scrapbook.” The author takes readers on a journey that begins in the South, moves to the Northeast and New England, shifts to Texas and the Middle West, and then travels to the Pacific Coast. “It concludes with another sort of pilgrimage, with its intimations of journeys’ end,” the publisher notes. “Throughout, it is concerned with one theme most of all, the intersection of place, time, and self as each speaks through the other of the meanings that bind them, and us, together.”

(Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2019)
One reviewer noted, “Scrutinizing a wealth of slave narratives, plantation records, and trial transcripts, the book documents the violent resistance of enslaved people … [who] did not violently rebel to claim their freedom; instead, they struck out in defiance or exasperation, to protect their honor, to reclaim their masculinity, and to defend their femininity. These acts did little to ultimately change the conditions for enslaved people; however, such physical confrontation ‘provided [them] with hope against a system of oppression designed to destroy their humanity.’”