• Childhood in Civil War Era America
• Historical fiction featuring women who aren’t queens
• Young women saving their own lives
• Early U.S. presidential campaigning
• Comic fiction having you on the edge of your seat
• First-person accounts of twentieth century South
• Thoughtful works of fiction and non-fiction
• Working life
• How the world really works
• About life, literature and South Africa
• Children’s books about art
• To understand what is wrong and right with Africa
• Getting lost in the wilderness, or the ocean
• Nonfiction books on lesser-known but fascinating figures
• Smart women trying to figure it all out
• Thinking about history in a different way