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The Moonlit Vine
by Elizabeth Santiago
In her debut young adult novel, Santiago, a member of the Woods College faculty, tells the story of fourteen-year-old Taina Perez, who takes care of her brother and grandmother while her mother works to support the family. After Taina discovers that she is a descendant of Anacaona, a revered leader, warrior, and poet among the Caribbean Taino people, she learns the stories of her ancestor and develops a renewed faith in herself.

Why We Forget and How to Remember Better: The Science Behind Memory
by Elizabeth A. Kensinger and Andrew E. Budson
Nobody likes being called forgetful, but in their new book, Budson and Kensinger, who is chair of the 涩里番下载 Psychology Department, explain why forgetting is a key function of memory, allowing insignificant details to be erased in favor of new information that could be more useful. Readers also learn about the brain鈥檚 memory storage system, and the profound influence memories have on human behavior.

Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions
by Rhonda Frederick
Frederick, a professor of English and African & African Diaspora Studies at 涩里番下载, explores how four works of American literature鈥攂y Colson Whitehead, Barbara Neely, Nalo Hopkinson, and Colin Channer鈥攑ortray 鈥渇antastical blackness,鈥� or the ability of the Black self to persevere despite society鈥檚 attempts to annihilate it. It鈥檚 an ability that Frederick argues is spectacular in and of itself.

Transformation Summer
by Sean Smith
In his debut novel, Smith, the editor of 涩里番下载 Chronicle, introduces readers to Seth, a man looking back on the bittersweet summer when he was sixteen and his newly divorced mother dragged him to a quirky camp devoted to personal growth. The two-week program proves unexpectedly enlightening, changing Seth forever and leading him to ponder what memories of our youth mean as we age.