Atlantic County Library System

An excerpt from “Dancing in the Mosque: An Afghan Mother’s Letter to her Son,” by Homeira Qaderi

“Sometimes You Have to Lie,” a biography by Leslie Brody of Louise Fitzhugh, the author of “Harriet the Spy,” reveals a writer who had much in common with her indelible characters.

In Chelsea G. Summers’s “A Certain Hunger,” a psychopathic food critic literally consumes the men she targets.

In her new book, Ijeoma Oluo traces the history of white American manhood from Buffalo Bill to contemporary football to show how violence and opportunism have helped white men maintain a grip on power.