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Week of January 19, 2015

Releases for the week of January 19th include THE DAYS OF ANNA MADRIGAL, the final novel in Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City series that follows Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane, as she embarks on a road trip that will take her deep into her past; ROOSEVELT’S BEAST, Louis Bayard's reimagining of Teddy and Kermit Roosevelt’s ill-fated 1914 Amazon expedition; and ALL JOY AND NO FUN: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood, in which award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior analyzes the many ways children reshape their parents' lives --- whether it's their marriages, their jobs, their habits, their hobbies, their friendships, or their internal senses of self.

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January 2015

January's roundup of History titles includes GATEWAY TO FREEDOM, in which Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner tells the dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom; THE TRAIN TO CRYSTAL CITY by Jan Jarboe Russell, the never-before-told story of a secret FDR-approved American internment camp in Texas during World War II, where thousands of families --- many US citizens --- were incarcerated; IN THESE TIMES, a beautifully observed history of the British home front during the Napoleonic Wars by celebrated historian Jenny Uglow; and MARCHING HOME, a groundbreaking investigation from Civil War historian Brian Matthew Jordan examining the fate of Union veterans who won the war but couldn’t bear the peace.

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