EDITOR’S PICKS

EDITOR’S PICKS

alumni books

Princeton University Press

An archaeologist with more than 30 seasons of excavation experience, Cline traces the history of archaeology from an amateur pursuit to the cutting-edge science it is today by taking the reader on a tour of major archaeological sites and discoveries, from Pompeii to Petra, Troy to the Terracotta Warriors.

Black Heron Press

In Chang’s eighth novel, jewel thief Jake Ahn escapes from a burglary that turns violent when his partner tries to double-cross him. Jake flees to his brother’s home, a move that awakens the siblings’ painful memories of childhood, while his ex-partner continues to hunt him.

David R. Godine

The New York Review of Books senior editor explores the primary importance of connection—with other human beings and with the natural world—through three interrelated sections of poetry. She moves from poems that are wide-ranging in locale and reference to a series of prose poems involving a child speaking with her grandfather to a section of shorter lyric poems that explore the proximity of life and death.

Rodale

Education researcher Boser took basketball lessons from a former Harlem Globetrotter, spent time with the country’s foremost ER doctor and profiled a recent Jeopardy winner to explore the new science of learning. He argues that learning is a skill, and explains how techniques such as self-questioning and thinking about thinking can create much deeper levels of understanding.

William Morrow

In her fourth novel, Donohue follows radio personality Gail Gideon and her 14-year-old daughter, Nic, whose behavior has become increasingly risky following a coma. This mother-daughter tale is a “beautiful combination of mystery, hope and most of all self-acceptance,” according to Library Journal.

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