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A young girl takes refuge in a London Tube station during WWII and confronts grief, loss and first love with the help of her favorite book, Alice in Wonderland, in the debut novel from Tony Award-winning playwright Steven Sater, AB ’76.

Miranda Popkey, MFA ’18, creates a book of important conversations that an unnamed narrator has with other women over two decades.

An investigation into the shocking mystery behind a dramatic experiment that revolutionized modern medicine.

In Cultivating Knowledge, anthropologist Andrew Flachs shows how rural farmers come to plant genetically modified or certified-organic cotton, sometimes during moments of agrarian crisis.

A psychotherapist of 30 years, Nancy Ellis-Ordway explains how she helps people get off the weight loss roller coaster, make peace with food and their bodies, and improve their health to find happiness and a better quality of life.

Enticing, heart wrenching, and darkly funny, the interconnected stories in The Artstars are set in creative communities where teamwork and professional jealousy mix.

A deeply human story, Fentanyl, Inc. is the first deep-dive investigation of a hazardous and illicit industry that has created a worldwide epidemic, ravaging communities and overwhelming and confounding government agencies that are challenged to combat it. “A whole new crop of chemicals is radically changing the recreational drug landscape,” writes Ben Westhoff. “These are known as Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) and they include replacements for known drugs like heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, and marijuana. They are synthetic, made in a laboratory, and are much more potent than traditional drugs”—and all-too-often tragically lethal.

This is an educational children’s book for ages 7-11 that makes gender identity, romantic orientation, and family diversity easy to explain to children. Charming illustrations help children engage with concepts such as intersectionality, discrimination, privilege and allyship in a comprehensible and respectful manner.

Charlie didn’t plan to adopt Rosie, a dragon he found at an animal shelter, but they just connected. Now they’re best friends. In this charming picture book by Lauren H. Kerstein, AB ’93, MSW ’95, Charlie and Rosie go swimming. And while swimming with a dragon can be challenging, nothing is impossible with your best friend by your side.

As juggling enters a golden age in the internet era, Juggling From Antiquity to the Middle Ages offers a look into the past—to the origins of our art form.