Student Vicky Chow reads Missing: Youth, Citizenship and Empire after 9/11 by Sunaina Maira, an associate professor in Asian American studies. From critically acclaimed novels to nonfiction looks at Israeli foreign policy, primate parenting and the paranormal, UC Davis faculty authors offer an array of provocative books for summer reading, including: The Vagrants by Yiyun Li; Real Enemies by Kathryn Olmsted; A Land So Strange by Andrés Reséndez; Two Billion Cars by Daniel Sperling; Breadline USA by Sasha Abramsky; Defending the Holy Land by Zeev Maoz; Mothers and Others by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy; The End of Materialism by Charles T. Tart; and The Servants’ Quarters by Lynn Freed. Detailed descriptions.