How about a bit of history this week? Jennifer Dasal's The Club: Where American Women Artists Found Refuge in Belle Époque Paris is "like being slipped the password to a speakeasy" with its consideration of creative derring-do, supportive community, and countercultural mores. Megan C. Reynolds's Like: A History of the World's Most Hated (and Misunderstood) Word delves into the "cathartic, enjoyable, and accessible" saga surrounding a common linguistic flourish. And Zoe B. Wallbrook's debut novel, History Lessons, transforms a junior professor of French colonial history into witty sleuth after a suspicious death on campus. Read on for these and so much more!
--Dave Wheeler, senior editor, Shelf Awareness