UNP staff members are always reading new books, both within our list and outside of what we publish. Here are some of the titles where our noses have been buried.

“Earlier this year, I picked up copies of our Eberhart books and have been waiting for the right time to read them! This month I decided to bring While the Patient Slept and Wolf in Man’s Clothing, two Nurse Keate mysteries, with me on vacation; and I greatly enjoyed them both.” -Sarah Kee

“Jamie Loftus takes us on a meat-filled adventure in Raw Dog, detailing the history of hot dogs, frankfurters, and different types of sausage. She explains the unsafe and unsanitary factory practices in the meatpacking industry, the start of the US Food and Drug Administration, and a controversial set of hot dog origin stories. She tells us, in detail, how hot dogs are made (prepare yourselves mentally for this information). This is followed by Jamie’s personal quest to visit as many independently owned hot dog joints as possible, affectionately referred to in the book as “Hot Dog Summer 2021.” A signature Jamie Loftus deep dive, this book is filled with her quirky and wonderful sense of humor…and a lot of toppings.”-Lacey Losh

“I had been in a bit of a reading slump lately, so I picked up Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None for a quick and engaging read the other day. I’ve also been reading Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang, which is a historical novel that follows a young Chinese girl who is kidnapped, smuggled to America, and forced to change the trajectory of her life to survive the 19^th century American West, where anti-Chinese sentiments and legislations place her in great danger. The only problem with high-tension situations in books is that sometimes it makes me so nervous I struggle to keep reading!” -Taylor Martin

“I’m reading Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser. Besides being a biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder it’s a pretty detailed history of the Great Plains in the later part of the 19^th century. I’d say it’s a tome, too. I’m 200 pages in and I’m nowhere close to the stage of Laura’s life when she wrote the Little House books.” -Erica Corwin

“I just completed The Book of Everlasting Things by Aanchal Malhotra. The author seamlessly weaves together deep plots, such as Partition, forbidden inter-religious love, the human cost of living through Partition, the trauma that still affects generations, etc., into what on the surface looks like another book on historical romance. Heart wrenching!” -Manjit Kaur 

“I recently read All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, about two adolescents growing up during World War II. It was utterly absorbing and I still think (and worry) about the characters in the book. It has made me more aware of the incredible freedoms and luxuries of my life outside of wartime.” -Tish Fobben

“I just finished Rachel Cochran’s debut novel, The Gulf. There is something extra special about reading a novel by someone you know. I especially enjoyed it after attending her launch event at Francie & Finch and hearing more about her craft and intentions with the book.” -Rosemary Sekora