Curt Schleier

NONFICTION: "Category Five" says those catastrophic events are commonly being eclipsed, because of climate crisis.

NONFICTION: Loving that new pair of jeans you bought? Thank a horse.

NONFICTION: The Thurber Prize-winning writer of "New Teeth" and TV's "Miracle Worker" has a new humor collection.

NONFICTION: He was the '60s answer to Cary Grant in "To Catch a Thief," but his jewel heists never were solved.

NONFICTION: The craft of reporting is raised to an art in a collection from the New Yorker writer.

NONFICTION: Historian charts the rise of the U.S. environmental movement.

NONFICTION: An ode to friendship between an NPR correspondent and a Supreme Court justice.

NONFICTION: One man's journey in search of a spiritual home.

NONFICTION: Corporate profits vs. doing the right thing. No contest, as "Wastelands" shows us once again.

Books in brief

A deep dive into how global warming threatens the boreal forests — the loss of which threatens us all.

Women writers fought bureaucracy and stereotypes to report from the front lines of World War II.

NONFICTION: A colorful and entertaining deep dive into Elon Musk's car company.

NONFICTION: A biography of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Jennifer Doudna, and a cogent examination of the moral implications of her work.