Howe, Neil. The Fourth Turning Is Here. S. & S. Jul. 2023. 608p. ISBN 9781982173739. $34.99. Downloadable. HISTORY

Love Hardin, Lara. The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir. S. & S. Jul. 2023. 304p. ISBN ‎9781982197667. $28.99. MEMOIR

Ramsey, Donovan X. When Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era. One World: Ballantine. Jul. 2023. 448p. ISBN 9780525511809. $30. Downloadable. HISTORY

Wickens, Kim. Lexington: The Extraordinary Life and Turbulent Times of America’s Legendary Racehorse. Ballantine. Jul. 2023. 384p. ISBN 9780593496701. $28.99. SPORTS/HORSERACING

Yurkiewicz, Ilana. Fragmented: A Doctor’s Quest to Piece Together American Health Care. Norton. Jul. 2023. 288p. ISBN 9780393881196. $30. HEALTHCARE

Zambreno, Kate. The Light Room. Riverhead. Jul. 2023. 256p. ISBN 9780593421062. $28. MEMOIR

In 1997's best-selling The Fourth Turning, Howe and the late William Strauss theorized that in the last 500 years, history has moved into 80- to 100-year cycles divided into four 20ish-year turnings, with the fourth turning a period of civic unrest; now, says, Howe,  The Fourth Turning Is Here. Having funded her heroin addiction by stealing the credit cards of neighbors in her posh cul-de-sac, soccer mom Love Hardin wound up in jail, then conquered shame when she emerged by reinventing herself, becoming a ghostwriter, literary agent, and Dayton/NAACP nominee—and now author of The Many Lives of Mama Love. Reconsidering When Crack Was King and the consequences for social justice issues today, journalist Ramsey focuses on four individuals—former crack user Lennie Woodley; former Baltimore mayor Kurt Schmoke, an advocate of decriminalization; businessman Elgin Swift, whose father turned their home into a crack house; and Shawn McCray, community activist, basketball coach, and former drug trafficker. The subject of Geraldine Brooks’s LJ-starred Horse and progenitor of 12 of 13 Triple Crown winners, racehorse Lexington gets his own life-and-times treatment from former lawyer and dressagist Wickens. What’s the real problem with healthcare today? It’s Fragmented, says Stanford physician Yurkiewicz, with lapses in data sharing and roadblocks to patient-doctor communication built into the system. With The Light Room, novelist/essayist Zambreno offers a memoir of parenting young children during a time of pandemic and climate crisis, examining moments of both scary isolation and gentle joy.