Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe
By David Maraniss
A magisterial biography of America’s greatest athlete.
Strange Fruit
By John R. Wennersten
A look at the longstanding racial strife in Maryland’s Somerset County.
L.A. Weather
By María Amparo Escandón
A Mexican American family navigates change in an exuberant, complicated city brought vividly to life.
War by Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance
By Daniel Akst
A look at the fighters who refused to take up arms.









