• Technology interacting with American society
• Serious subjects that are also hilariously funny
• Mysteries about books
• The science of food
• Reminding us why we should eat the rich
• American women’s lives in the American Revolution
• Extraordinary people in Nazi-occupied France
• The politics of doing the laundry
• Women balancing life and family
• Boycotts & consumer activism
• Bad ass women in historical fiction
• Escapism on a rainy Autumn evening