2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist
A mesmerizing work of narrative journalism, visceral, provocative, and haunting, about the sex lives and desires of three ordinary American women. Over the past eight years, Taddeo, an award-winning journalist and longtime contributor to New York and Esquire, embedded herself with three ordinary women to write this deeply immersive account of their erotic lives and longings. The result is shocking, powerful, and timely.
In rural Virginia, Young and Pak Yoo run an experimental medical treatment device known as the Miracle Submarine, a pressurized oxygen chamber that patients enter for therapeutic 'dives' with the hopes of curing issues like autism or infertility. But when the Miracle Submarine mysteriously explodes, killing two people, a dramatic murder trial upends the Yoos' small community.
Southern newlyweds honeymooning in 1957 Cape May are pulled into the dramas of a trio of sophisticated New England urbanites who render the deserted beach community an intimate playground of corruptive recklessness.
There's a village an hour from London. It's no different from many others today: one pub, one church, redbrick cottages, some public housing, and a few larger houses dotted about. Voices rise up, as they might anywhere, speaking of loving and needing and working and dying and walking the dogs. This village belongs to the people who live in it, to the land and to the land's past.
Documents the author's lifelong capacity for causing impossible manifestations, exploring his mother's revelations about their witch ancestry and his efforts to understand himself and his powers.
A single mother Kate Reese's desperate efforts to escape an abusive relationship are thrown into turmoil by her young son Christopher's disappearance and reappearance days later with an imaginary friend.
Presents a chronicle of the author's lifelong love affair with words, filtered through her passion for all things Greek and her solo adventures in Greece.
Based on transcripts of the Borden legal proceedings, contemporary newspaper accounts, unpublished local accounts, and recently unearthed letters from Lizzie herself, Cara Robertson explores the stories Lizzie Borden's culture wanted and expected to hear and how those stories influenced the debate inside and outside of the courtroom.
The American wife of a German intellectual and her circle of women friends sabotage Hitler's regime until an errant Russian signal exposes their resistance cell.