The topic is: making a good audition book of musical theatre songs ... Close to the end of last school year, my friend Harper gave me a ride home from a late-night tech rehearsal.

But books always make great graduation gifts, because, c'mon, you can't go wrong with a present that imparts wisdom and lasts for years. That imparting wisdom bit is important.

In her debut novel, “The School for Good Mothers,” Jessamine Chan imagines a future where parents (mostly women) get sent to government-run reform school. By Elisabeth Egan The epigraph at the ...