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Sam Goodwin (AM ’21) has written an inspiring and unforgettable saga that includes worldwide travel, celebrities, heads of state, high-stakes diplomacy and critical life lessons — and ultimately, what it means to be free.

The fascinating story of a British army chaplain’s buggery trial in 1774 reveals surprising truths about early America.

In After Palmares, Marc A. Hertzman (AB ’00) tells the rise, fall, and afterlives of Palmares, one of history’s largest and longest-lasting maroon societies.

Dr Jojo has it all figured out. Or so it seems to her Instagram followers, who love her no-nonsense advice about men, self-love, dating and sex.But behind the camera, it’s a different story — she’s in love with her best friend, Ezra, and he doesn’t feel the same way. Committed to moving on, Jo soon […]

The latest novel by Teddy Wayne, MFA ’06, The Winner is a dark, explosive literary thriller that brilliantly skewers the elite.

A story about unexpected friendship and everyday bravery, the eighth book in the Emmie & Friends series from Terri Libenson, BFA ’92, is told from the alternating POVs of popular Anthony and timid Leah as they grapple with a bullying incident at school.

In the hopes of learning more about the local cryptids, three friends, Jenny, Emiko and Brian, start the Society of Creatures Real and Magical — S.C.R.A.M. Their first order of business? To meet a troll!

Published to commemorate the 80th Anniversary of D-Day in June, The Climber of Pointe du Hoc, by Allen Saxon, AB ’71, weaves a tender love story into the gripping — and grim — Allied invasion of Europe.  Caleb Huddleston, a quiet young man from Wyoming, enlists in 1942 and quickly finds himself in the town […]

Soaring, aching, full of revelation, “The Second Coming” by Garth Risk Hallberg (BA ’01) is an incandescent feat of storytelling and an exploration of an enduring mystery: Can the people we love ever really change?

Ferociously funny and deeply moving, “Mother Doll,” the second novel from Katya Apekina, MFA ’11, forces us to look at how painful secrets stamp themselves from one generation to the next. It’s a family epic and a meditation on motherhood, immigration, identity, and war.