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From the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal best-selling author of The Radium Girls comes another dark and dramatic but ultimately uplifting tale of a forgotten woman whose inspirational journey sparked lasting change for women’s rights and exposed injustices that still resonate today.
The year 1860: As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil, Elizabeth Packard, housewife and mother of six, is facing her own battle. The enemy sits across the table and sleeps in the next room. Her husband of 21 years is plotting against her because he feels increasingly threatened - by Elizabeth’s intellect, independence, and unwillingness to stifle her own thoughts. So Theophilus makes a plan to put his wife back in her place. One summer morning, he has her committed to an insane asylum.
Readers will be shocked, horrified, and inspired. A veritable tour de force about how far women's rights have come and how far we still have to go.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of By Any Other Name comes a riveting novel about the risks we take to protect the ones we love in a world where crisis is always just around the corner.
On September 11, 2001, when Molly Fitzgerald was only two months old, her mother went to an appointment at the World Trade Center and never came home. Her father and the stepmother who raised her couldn’t have loved her more, but she still grew up with a healthy dread of disasters.
Now an adult, she runs the Rhode Island Department for Emergency Preparedness, mapping out ways to save lives during storms, epidemics, and airplane crashes. She and her husband, Jesse—a police polygraph expert with his own history of crisis—have found a love that is a solace in a dangerous world. But then the unexpected upends their new marriage, leading them both to question everything they thought they knew.
Moving between past and present, Hollow Bones is an epic story of the lies we tell ourselves as we write the narratives of our lives, the plans we design to protect ourselves at the worst moments, and the ties that bind mothers and daughters.
Meta is a cesspool of petty tyranny and moral callousness, according to this explosive tell-all. Wynn-Williams recaps her seven years as Facebook’s manager of global public policy, which entailed dealing with foreign governments on censorship, regulation, and other hot-button issues, as well as ensuring executives didn’t make fools of themselves on the world stage (she once scrambled to prevent CEO Mark Zuckerberg from following Big Bird at the Global Citizen Festival). More seriously, Wynn-Williams describes how her idealistic enthusiasm for connecting the world soured as she witnessed the company collaborate with the 2016 Trump campaign to target users with political ads; bow to the Chinese Communist Party’s demands to censor criticism; and refuse to take action when Myanmar’s military used Facebook to spread disinformation that fueled the ethnic cleansing of the country’s Rohingya minority. She hangs a witty picaresque of Facebook life around colorful profiles of its executives-Zuckerberg is "smaller, paler, and... angrier than I anticipated"-while taking aim at rampant overwork and sexual harassment at the company, claiming that she was forced by former COO Sheryl Sandberg to draw up talking points for a meeting while in labor with her first child and was fired after complaining about her boss Joel Kaplan’s sexually charged comments. The result is a withering takedown of Facebook’s hypocrisy.
Publishers Weekly (April 14, 2025)
Rachel is on the outs with her friends, so she decides to spend the awkward summer between high school and college at her aunt’s beautiful home in upper-crust Greenwich, Connecticut, under the guise of looking out for her aunt and helping to watch her three-year-old cousin, Sabine. Rachel is a people-pleaser who hasn’t figured out what makes her happy in life, and she is drawn to the surety of Sabine’s nanny, Claudia, who seems to know how to handle any situation despite being only a recent college grad. Looking back at this late 1990s summer from the present, Rachel sees some troubling undertones in the way Claudia, who is Black, is treated, all while a mysterious traumatic event looms over the story, so that the reader knows that by the end of this summer, something terrible will have happened. This gothic and atmospheric debut novel is absorbingly paced with cutting depictions of dysfunctional family dynamics, exploring societal expectations, how hiding the truth corrupts and corrodes, and the truism that money does not buy happiness.
Booklist (June 1, 2025 (Vol. 121, No. 19))