A Fugitive in Walden Woods by Norman Lock
In Norman Lock’s fourth American Novels series book, A Fugitive in Walden Woods, Henry David Thoreau’s principles are tested when a young man escapes from slavery into Walden Woods.
A Loaded Gun by Jerome Charyn
In A Loaded Gun, Jerome Charyn offers a passionate and deeply researched reassessment of Emily Dickinson’s life and singular legacy in American arts and letters.
A Mathematician’s Lament by Paul Lockhart
Called “one of the best critiques of current mathematics education” by Keith Devlin, A Mathematician’s Lament by Paul Lockhart reveals math to be a creative art form on par with painting, poetry, and sculpture, and rejects the standard anxiety-producing teaching methods used in most schools today.
A Proper Knowledge by Michelle Latiolais
A Proper Knowledge, by Michelle Latiolais, tells the story of a gifted psychiatrist, who is seeking to penetrate the mysteries of childhood autism. Called “both clinical and poetic” by Alice Sebold, A Proper Knowledge is an insightful investigation into the misunderstood pathways of the brain—and the heart.
A Road Unforeseen by Meredith Tax
Meredith Tax’s A Road Unforeseen: Women Fight the Islamic State tells the story behind the secular feminist army courageously challenging ISIS/ISIL.
A Solemn Pleasure by Melissa Pritchard
Melissa Pritchard’s A Solemn Pleasure, from The Art of the Essay series, offers reflections on a literary life pulled in two directions: from war zone journalism to the writing and teaching of fiction.
A Wilder Time by William E. Glassley
In William E. Glassley’s’s A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice, a scientist experiences primordial wonders and the wisdom of solitude in one of Earth’s wildest and most endangered places.
Aaron’s Leap by Magdaléna Platzová
Magdaléna Platzová’s Aaron’s Leap is a multigenerational saga inspired by Bauhaus artists and the impact of the Holocaust’s lingering legacy on their children and protégés.
All Else Failed by Dana Sachs
As hundreds of thousands of displaced people sought refuge in Europe, the global relief system failed. In All Else Failed: The Unlikely Volunteers at the Heart of the Migrant Aid Crisis, Dana Sachs tells the story of those who stepped forward to help.
American Follies by Norman Lock
In Norman Lock’s seventh American Novels series book, American Follies, a young woman joins Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Barnum’s circus to rescue her infant from the KKK.
American Meteor by Norman Lock
In Norman Lock’s second American Novels series book, American Meteor, a scrappy Brooklyn orphan turned vengeful assassin narrates a visionary tale of the American West.
Are You Here For What I’m Here For? by Brian Booker
Brian Booker’s debut collection of short fiction, Are You Here For What I’m Here For?, delivers seven palpably tense and exquisitely atmospheric stories of people confronting their innermost fears.
Aseroë by François Dominique
François Dominique’s novel Aseroë follows the aesthetic adventures of a mad mycologist.
Autopsy of a Father by Pascale Kramer
A journalist’s suicide reveals a country on the verge of implosion in Pascale Kramer’s Autopsy of a Father, an intimate portrait of family disintegration.
Awkward by Mary Cappello
In Awkward: A Detour Mary Cappello mines her own personal and intellectual pursuits—from travels in Russia and Italy to childhood letters, the writings of Henry James, and the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder—to decipher the powerful messages that awkwardness can transmit.
Benefit by Siobhan Phillips
In Siobhan Phillips’s Benefit, a young woman discovers what lurks beneath the system that anointed her among the best and brightest of her generation.
Beyond Uncertainty by David C. Cassidy
David C. Cassidy’s Beyond Uncertainty is the definitive biography of German physicist Werner Heisenberg, updated to include long-suppressed information on Heisenberg’s role in the Nazi atomic bomb project.
Bob Stevenson by Richard Wiley
In Richard Wiley’s novel Bob Stevenson, a psychiatrist falls for a charismatic patient and must unravel the mystery of his identity.
Boltzmann’s Tomb by Bill Green
Boltzmann’s Tomb is a travelogue through the history of science by the award-winning Bill Green. Using Ludwig Boltzmann’s theories of randomness and entropy in the microscopic world as a larger metaphor for life, Green shows us that science, like art, is a lived adventure.
Canción by Eduardo Halfon
From internationally celebrated Eduardo Halfon comes the fourth installment in his hero’s nomadic journey as he searches for answers surrounding his grandfather’s abduction during the Guatemalan Civil War.
Cesare by Jerome Charyn
In Jerome Charyn’s Cesare: A Novel of War-Torn Berlin a spy navigates the labyrinthine horrors of Nazi Germany, on a mission to save the woman he loves.
City of Incurable Women by Maud Casey
In Maud Casey’s City of Incurable Women, a fusion of fact and fiction, nineteenth-century women institutionalized as hysterics reveal what history ignored.
Come On Up by Jordi Nopca
Global capitalism fails young Barcelona couples in this dynamic English-language debut story collection by rising Catalan literary star Jordi Nopca.
Country of Ash by Edward Reicher
Country of Ash is the gripping personal narrative of Edward Reicher, a Jewish doctor who miraculously survived the Holocaust, first inside the Lodz and Warsaw ghettoes, where he was forced to treat the Gestapo, then on the Aryan side of Warsaw, where he hid under numerous disguises until the end of World War II.
Doctored Drawings by Mark Podwal
Mark Podwal, best known for his political drawings on the New York Times op-ed page, focuses on the human body as a medical specimen in Doctored Drawings, visually representing the essence of major public health issues through witty, entertaining illustrations.
Epigenetics in the Age of Twitter by Gerald Weissmann
Epigenetics in the Age of Twitter by Gerald Weissmann is a collection of humorous, erudite essays about how epigenetics, which attempts to explain how our genes respond to our environment, is just the latest twist in the historic nature vs. nurture debate.
Feast Day of the Cannibals by Norman Lock
In Norman Lock’s sixth American Novels series book, Feast Day of the Cannibals, a bankrupt merchant encounters Herman Melville and is pursued through the depths of Gilded Age Manhattan by a brutal antagonist.
Flight of the Wild Swan by Melissa Pritchard
Melissa Pritchard’s Flight of the Wild Swan is a majestic novel of Florence Nightingale, whose courage, self-confidence, and resilience transformed nursing and the role of women in medicine.
Freud’s Trip to Orvieto by Nicholas Fox Weber
Nicholas Fox Weber’s Freud’s Trip to Orvieto is an illuminating journey into a complex mind, a searing exploration of masculinity, and a richly illustrated celebration of art’s provocative power.
From the Shadows by Juan José Millás
Juan José Millás’s novel, From the Shadows, is a wild, absurdist story about a lonely man’s misguided attempts to connect.
Galileo’s Gout by Gerald Weissmann
With Galileo’s Gout Gerald Weissmann transports us back across more than four hundred years of pivotal moments in science and medicine. He lingers with Galileo in 17th-century Florence, Diderot in Enlightenment Paris, William and Alice James in fin-de-siecle Boston, and Craig Venter decoding the genome at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
Ghost Moth by Michèle Forbes
Ghost Moth, by Irish actress and debut novelist Michèle Forbes, is an exceptional tale about a family whose buried secrets come to light during a time known as “The Troubles,” when Catholic Republicans and Protestant Loyalists clashed in the streets of Belfast.
Good People by Robert Lopez
In Good People, Robert Lopez delivers twenty stories of lives lost and found at the crossroads of the ordinary, the bizarre, the tragic, and the comic.
Hap and Hazard and the End of the World by Diane DeSanders
Set in 1940s Texas, Diane DeSanders’ debut novel, Hap and Hazard and the End of the World, follows an isolated young girl as she navigates the mysteries and threats of the adult world.
Her Here by Amanda Dennis
Amanda Dennis’s Her Here is an atmospheric debut novel about one lost young woman’s search for another.
I Thought I Could Fly by Charlee Brodsky
I Thought I Could Fly combines personal narratives with Charlee Brodsky’s stark black-and-white photographs to touch upon schizophrenia, manic depression, bipolar disorder, and OCD, forming a poignant portrait of patients and families struggling with mental illness.
Impromptu Man by Jonathan D. Moreno
Jonathan D. Moreno’s Impromptu Man is the definitive biography of Jacob L. Moreno, the creative genius behind major 20th-century movements in therapy and theater.
In the Shadow of King Saul by Jerome Charyn
Jerome Charyn’s In the Shadow of King Saul: Essays on Silence and Song, from The Art of the Essay series, is a lyrical autobiography in essays from a celebrated author, honoring outlier artists and other heroes and villains who inspired him.
Inukshuk by Gregory Spatz
Gregory Spatz’s Inukshuk explores a modern-day Canadian teenager’s relationship with his father and the boy’s growing obsession with the legendary Victorian adventurer John Franklin whose crew descended into despair, madness, and cannibalism on the Arctic tundra.
Invisible Beasts by Sharona Muir
Invisible Beasts, Sharona Muir's first work of fiction, is an Aesop’s Fables for the age of extinction.
Jerzy by Jerome Charyn
In Jerzy: A Novel, Jerome Charyn tells the startling story of a celebrated author whose life was warped by war, shrouded in mystery, and broken by scandal.
Keep Out of Reach of Children by Mark A. Largent
Mark A. Largent’s Keep Out of Reach of Children is a modern medical mystery about Reye’s syndrome , an illness that ravaged healthy children, changed policy, and vanished before a cause was found.
Leonardo’s Foot by Carol Ann Rinzler
With Leonardo’s Foot, Carol Ann Rinzler has created a wonderfully diverse catalogue of details on our often hidden and overlooked feet, including the ideal human form in classical antiquity, an array of foot maladies that affected luminaries from Lord Byron to Benjamin Franklin, and the history of foot fetishism.
Let No One Sleep by Juan José Millás
Juan José Millás’s novel, Let No One Sleep, is an odyssey of operatic proportions, featuring an obsession-fueled taxi driver.
Publication Date: Aug 2024
Life After Kafka by Magdaléna Platzová
Magdaléna Platzová’s Life After Kafka is a novel of Felice Bauer, Franz Kafka’s first fiancée, and the story behind Letters to Felice.
Like the Appearance of Horses by Andrew Krivak
Like the Appearance of Horses, the culminating novel of Andrew Krivak’s award-winning Dardan Trilogy, is a story of one family, a century of war, and the promise of homecoming.
Look at Us by T. L. Toma
In T. L. Toma’s novel, Look at Us, a marriage is transformed by a new arrival.
Love Among the Particles by Norman Lock
Norman Lock’s Love Among the Particles is a dark and marvelous journey from the Industrial Age, through Hollywood’s Golden Age, into the Digital Age and beyond. His characters may walk out of the pages of Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Franz Kafka, or Gaston Leroux, but they are distinctly his own.
Love Like Water, Love Like Fire by Mikhail Iossel
Comedy and tragedy collide in Mikhail Iossel’s Love Like Water, Love Like Fire—stories of family life in Soviet Russia and the complexities of the immigrant experience.
Mind Wars by Jonathan D. Moreno
Jonathan Moreno’s Mind Wars covers the ethical dilemmas and bizarre history of cutting-edge technology and neuroscience developed for military applications. The author discusses the innovative Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the role of scientific research in preparing the military for the twenty-first century.
Monastery by Eduardo Halfon
From internationally celebrated Eduardo Halfon comes the second installment in his hero’s nomadic journey as he searches for clues about his identity across Central America and Europe, New York and Jerusalem.
Mortal and Immortal DNA by Gerald Weissmann
Gerald Weissmann’s Mortal and Immortal DNA takes us on a scientifically informed exploration of the western canon, from Greek mythology to W.H. Auden, and offers amusing insights into popular culture, from Paris Hilton to the true life story of Kathryn Lee Bates, the lesbian poet who penned “America the Beautiful.”
Moss by Klaus Modick
Klaus Modick’s novel Moss is a masterpiece of eco-fiction from an acclaimed German author making his English-language debut.
Mourning by Eduardo Halfon
From internationally celebrated Eduardo Halfon comes the third installment in his hero’s nomadic journey as he searches for his roots through tangled childhood memories of a haunting family tragedy.
Murmur by Will Eaves
Will Eaves’s novel Murmur is based on the darkest chapter in the life of genius Alan Turing.
Natural Selections by David P. Barash
Natural Selections, David Barash’s indispensable tour of evolutionary biology, takes on the hot-button questions of the moment: Intelligent Design, gender differences, and the decoding of the human genome.
Pain Studies by Lisa Olstein
Lisa Olstein’s book-length lyric essay, Pain Studies, takes readers on an intimate and revelatory voyage through pain and perception, pop culture and personal experience.
Pale Faces by Charles L. Bardes
Pale Faces explores how anemia affects our most essential bodily fluid: blood. Delving into this illness as metaphor, Charles L. Bardes’ innovative “pathography” ranges widely through history, mythology, literature, and clinical practice to examine how our notions of medical conditions are often rooted in language, symbolism, and culture.
Palmerino by Melissa Pritchard
Melissa Pritchard’s Palmerino is a richly atmospheric, supernaturally-shaded novel based on the true story of Violet Paget, aka Vernon Lee, the brilliant Victorian-era writer and intellectual.
Places of the Heart by Colin Ellard
In Places of the Heart, neuroscientist Colin Ellard illuminates how we make and are made by the world both real and virtual.
Ravage & Son by Jerome Charyn
Ravage & Son is master storyteller Jerome Charyn’s novel of crime, corruption, and antisemitism in early 20th-century Manhattan.
Science Next by Jonathan D. Moreno
Comprised of writings from the forward thinking Center for American Progress, Science Next offers innovative approaches to the most important issues of our time, such as global warming and climate change, stem cell research, national security, and communication in the digital age.
Seasons of Purgatory by Shahriar Mandanipour
Seasons of Purgatory is the first English-language story collection from Shahriar Mandanipour, lauded by the Guardian as “one of Iran’s most important living fiction writers.”
Sergeant Salinger by Jerome Charyn
Jerome Charyn’s Sergeant Salinger is a shattering biographical novel of J.D. Salinger in combat.
Sleeping Mask by Peter LaSalle
Peter LaSalle’s Sleeping Mask: Fictions are mind-bending tales of passion, obsession, and brutality.
Starlight Detectives by Alan Hirshfeld
Alan Hirshfeld’s Starlight Detectives is a wondrous tale about cosmic exploration and the colorful characters who ushered astronomy into the modern age.
Strange Bedfellows by David P. Barash, Judith Eve Lipton
In Strange Bedfellows, the follow-up to The Myth of Monogamy, husband and wife team David Barash (an evolutionary biologist) and Judith Eve Lipton (a psychiatrist) explore the ways biology promotes monogamy in some species and how these lessons apply to human beings.
Swimming to the Top of the Tide by Patricia Hanlon
In Swimming to the Top of the Tide, Patricia Hanlon chronicles four seasons of immersion in New England’s Great Marsh.
Tacoma Stories by Richard Wiley
In Richard Wiley’s Tacoma Stories, the lives of sixteen people who once gathered in a City of Destiny bar in 1968 unfold over sixty years.
Talking Back, Talking Black by John McWhorter
John McWhorter’s Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America’s Lingua Franca is an authoritative, impassioned celebration of Black English, how it works, and why it matters.
The Anatomist by Bill Hayes
A blend of history, science, culture, and author Bill Hayes’s own personal experiences, The Anatomist uncovers the extraordinary lives of Henry Gray and H.V. Carter, creators of the classic medical text known as Gray's Anatomy.
The Attempt by Magdaléna Platzová
Magdaléna Platzová’s The Attempt is a novel of radical lives and loves that takes readers from an assassination attempt by early anarchists to Occupy Wall Street.
The Bar at Twilight by Frederic Tuten
In The Bar at Twilight, incomparable storyteller Frederic Tuten serves up an enchanting concoction of art, love, and longing.
The Bear by Andrew Krivak
Andrew Krivak’s The Bear is a gorgeous fable of Earth’s last two human inhabitants, and a girl’s journey home.
The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review by Danielle Ofri
The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review is a collection of writing from the award-winning journal edited by Danielle Ofri, which is widely recognized as a rare forum for emerging and celebrated writers—among them Julia Alvarez, Raphael Campo, Rick Moody, and Abraham Verghese—on issues of health and healing.
The Body Politic by Jonathan D. Moreno
In The Body Politic Jonathan Moreno provides an engaging history of science’s place in the American political arena, while examining the biopolitics emerging to address scientific and technological breakthroughs that challenge our collective value system in this “biological century.”
The Boy in His Winter by Norman Lock
In Norman Lock’s first American Novels series book, The Boy in His Winter, Huck Finn’s mythic adventures—and childhood—abruptly end when he steps off his raft into Hurricane Katrina.
The Business of Naming Things by Michael Coffey
Michael Coffey’s The Business of Naming Things is a poignant debut collection of stories about disenchanted fathers, damaged sons, and orphans left feeling perpetually disconnected.
The Cage by Gordon Weiss
In The Cage, Gordon Weiss provides an incisive account of the formation, history, and bloody dissolution of the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka. This seminal book has been credited with prompting the United Nations war crimes investigation into human rights abuses during the end of the Sri Lankan civil war.
Publication Date: Jul 2024
The Caricaturist by Norman Lock
In Norman Lock’s eleventh and penultimate American Novels series book, The Caricaturist, a young artist meets Stephen Crane as America’s hunger for empire draws them both into war.
The Child by Pascale Kramer
Pascale Kramer’s The Child is about a couple locked into mutual isolation by the ravages of illness and the growing violence and unrest in their low-income neighborhood—that is, until the arrival of a young boy brings hope and upsets their delicate danse macabre to devastating effect.
The Cure by Varley O’Connor
Varley O’Connor’s The Cure is a family saga about race, war, childhood Polio, and romantic desire set in post-Depression era New Jersey.
The Fevers of Reason by Gerald Weissmann
The Fevers of Reason: New and Selected Essays is an essential collection by Gerald Weissmann, the writer and physician Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel calls “America’s most interesting and important essayist.”
The Flip by Jeffrey J. Kripal
Jeffrey J. Kripal’s The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge is a perspective-altering deep dive into the nature of consciousness honoring both science and spirituality.
The Ice Harp by Norman Lock
In Norman Lock’s tenth American Novels series book, The Ice Harp, Ralph Waldo Emerson battles dementia while debating whether to intercede in a Black soldier’s unjust arrest.
The Impostor by Edgard Telles Ribeiro
Brazilian author Edgard Telles Ribeiro’s The Impostor contains two exquisite novellas on memory, perception, and shifting intimacies.
The Jump Artist by Austin Ratner
The Jump Artist, the Sami Rohr Prize-winning debut novel by Austin Ratner, is based on the true story of Philippe Halsman, whose role in the “Austrian Dreyfus Affair,” rocked Europe in the years leading up to World War II and who later became famous for his portraits of celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe and Salvador Dalí.
The Leper Compound by Paula Nangle
The Leper Compound is a searing evocation of late-twentieth-century African life by debut novelist Paula Nangle. Growing into womanhood in Rhodesia’s final conflict-ridden years, Colleen transgresses social, racial, and political boundaries in her search for connection.
The Lives They Left Behind by Darby Penney, Peter Stastny
The Lives They Left Behind, written by Darby Penney and Peter Stastny with photographs by Lisa Rinzler, is based on the contents of more than four hundred abandoned suitcases filled with patients’ belongings that were found when Willard State Psychiatric Hospital closed in 1995 after 126 years of operation.
The Measure of Darkness by Liam Durcan
In Liam Durcan’s novel The Measure of Darkness, a once-successful architect seeks the truth behind the accident that left him with a devastating brain injury.
The Odditorium by Melissa Pritchard
In each of The Odditorium’s eight genre-bending tales, Melissa Pritchard overturns the conventions of mysteries, westerns, gothic horror, and historical fiction to capture surprising and often shocking episodes in the lives of characters such as Annie Oakley, Sitting Bull, Kaspar Hauser, and Robert Leroy Ripley.
The Poetic Species by Edward O. Wilson, Robert Hass
Human behavior is changing the living world. We have come to a moment of environmental crisis that has profound implications for the future of our own species and for the planet. In this passionate conversation, former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass and acclaimed entomologist and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward O. Wilson discuss evolution, education, conservation, and the promise of consilience.
The Polish Boxer by Eduardo Halfon
From internationally celebrated Eduardo Halfon comes the first installment in his hero’s nomadic journey as searches for his roots and information about his Polish grandfather’s imprisonment at Auschwitz.
The Port-Wine Stain by Norman Lock
In Norman Lock’s third American Novels series book, The Port-Wine Stain, a young surgical assistant faces his doppelgänger in a chilling tale featuring Edgar Allan Poe and a “lost” Poe story.
The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak
The Sojourn, a National Book Award finalist and winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and Chautauqua Prize, is the first novel of Andrew Krivak’s Dardan Trilogy: a stirring tale of brotherhood, coming of age, and survival during World War I.
The Surfacing by Cormac James
In Cormac James’ North American debut novel, The Surfacing, a ship’s lieutenant discovers a stowaway, pregnant with his child, while battling crushing Arctic ice on the hunt for Sir John Franklin’s lost expedition.
The Topography of Tears by Rose-Lynn Fisher
Rose-Lynn Fishers’ The Topography of Tears renders marvelous landscapes of human experience and emotion through the photographic magnification of our tears.
The Welsh Fasting Girl by Varley O’Connor
In Varley O’Connor’s novel, The Welsh Fasting Girl, a nineteenth-century American journalist becomes deeply invested in the tragic case of a young Welsh girl deemed a miracle.
The World Itself by Ulf Danielsson
There is a wonderfully weird but real world out there, and we are a part of it. Physicist Ulf Danielsson argues that it is time for physics to take life seriously in The World Itself: Consciousness and the Everything of Physics.
The Wreckage of Eden by Norman Lock
In Norman Lock’s fifth American Novels series book, The Wreckage of Eden, a nineteenth-century army chaplain confesses his loss of faith in God and country to his first love, poet Emily Dickinson.
Then They Started Shooting by Lynne Jones
Lynne Jones’ Then They Started Shooting is an illuminating, decades-spanning analysis of children’s experience during wartime and its reverberation into their adulthood.
Tinkers by Paul Harding
This special anniversary edition of Paul Harding’s Pulitzer Prize–winning debut novel Tinkers features a new foreword by Marilynne Robinson and book club extras inside.
Publication Date: May 2024
To & Fro by Leah Hager Cohen
Leah Hager Cohen’s To & Fro is a tale of two girls—one living in a parable, the other in Manhattan.
Tooth of the Covenant by Norman Lock
In Norman Lock’s eighth American Novels series book, Tooth of the Covenant, Nathaniel Hawthorne pens a new tale to exact revenge on his ancestor, a notorious judge of the Salem witch trials.
Trondheim by Cormac James
A son’s collapse pulls his two mothers together and apart in Cormac James’ Trondheim, a novel that probes the limits of love, hope, and forgiveness.
Uncommon Measure by Natalie Hodges
Natalie Hodges’s Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time is a virtuosic debut from a gifted violinist searching for a new mode of artistic becoming.
Understories by Tim Horvath
Full of speculative daring though firmly anchored in the tradition of realism, Tim Horvath’s Understories explores hypothetical cities, shadow puppeteers, and the imaginary travels of a library book—blending the everyday and wondrous to contend with age-old themes of loss, identity, and the search for human connection.
Voices in the Dead House by Norman Lock
In Norman Lock’s ninth American Novels series book, Voices in the Dead House, Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott meet the horrors of the Civil War as they minister to its casualties.
Water, Ice & Stone by Bill Green
A classic of contemporary nature writing, Water, Ice & Stone is Bill Green’s John Burroughs Medal Award-winning account of Antarctica, which addresses the ecological importance of the continent within the context of the global warming/climate change crisis.
Widow by Michelle Latiolais
Like the memoirs of Joan Didion and Joyce Carol Oates, Michelle Latiolais’ Widow contains stories that bravely explore the physiology of grief through a masterful interweaving of tender insight and unflinching detail.
Wolf Season by Helen Benedict
In Helen Benedict’s novel, Wolf Season, the war comes home in a searingly compassionate story about the wounds inflicted on soldiers, refugees, and their families.
Written in Stone by Brian Switek
Written in Stone, by popular science writer Brian Switek, is the first accessible account of the remarkable discovery of the transitional fossils that make sense of Darwin’s theory of natural selection—from walking whales to feathered dinosaurs and hominids of all types.