Una Everlasting is a nation’s legendary lady-knight whose true life has been lost to myth. Centuries later, historian Owen Mallory becomes obsessed with her story and is sent back through time, where he and Una become bound together by a repeating narrative. As they confront the realities behind the legend, they must decide whether to preserve the familiar story or risk everything to change it.

Two writers — optimistic Alice Scott and brooding, well-known Hayden Anderson — travel to Little Crescent Island to compete for the chance to write the biography of Margaret Ives, a reclusive, larger-than-life woman. Margaret invites them for a one-month trial during which she shares only selective memories under an NDA, so they can’t compare notes. As they work to piece together her story, professional rivalry, growing attraction, and the uncertainty of whose version of events to trust complicate the project.

When Cora and Sam, both happily married young parents, connect at a baby group, their unexpected chemistry splits their story into two parallel timelines — one where they pursue their feelings and one where they resist. The novel alternates between these possibilities, using Cora’s everyday life and relationships to examine marriage, temptation, and the roads not taken without revealing what actually happens.

Perfect Victims is a lyrical, urgent collection of reportage, personal testimony, and historical reflection that bears witness to Palestinian life under occupation. Mohammed El-Kurd combines candid memoir and on-the-ground reporting to insist on Palestinian dignity, resistance, and the demand to be seen as human without requiring a performance of ‘‘perfect’’ victimhood.

On a remote Maine island, Clara returns to the family mansion with her brother Teddy and his wife, years after their parents’ mysterious deaths. When intimate videos of Clara surface online — videos she doesn’t remember making — the family’s reputation, a political campaign, and long-buried secrets collide. Tense and atmospheric, the novel follows Clara as she confronts betrayal, possible manipulation, and the uncertain line between public image and private truth.

After her best friend Lou dies, Lenny is adrift until she takes a babysitting job for single mom Reese and her daughter Ainsley. The household’s brooding uncle, Miles, offers a deal: he’ll help her tackle a list of things meant to get her living again if she helps him connect with Ainsley and with Reese. As they spend time together, Lenny begins to heal and discovers unexpected connection and the possibility of love.

Evie, newly orphaned and evicted as New York falls apart, sets out for a distant cousin’s town called Gulluck — a surreal Texas place where reality bends. In a landscape of albino cicadas, eccentric residents, and strange happenings, she searches for a house and a sense of belonging. The novel blends magical realism and dark humor to explore housing, family, and what “home” means.

Good and Evil and Other Stories is a collection of six unsettling short tales that probe family bonds, guilt, grief, and the uncanny. Using elements of magical realism and psychological fiction, Samanta Schweblin depicts ordinary lives disrupted by strange, ambiguous events, leaving characters to confront loss, longing, and moral uncertainty. The stories are compact, atmospheric, and quietly disturbing without revealing plot details.

American Kings examines the cultural power of the quarterback, tracing the journey from childhood dreams to professional stardom. Drawing on reporting and interviews with iconic figures and rising talents, it explores the pressures, sacrifices, mythology, and costs of ambition tied to that singular position in American life.

In the 1980s neurologist Francisco Lopera identified a hereditary mutation behind an early‑onset form of Alzheimer’s affecting families in villages near Medellín. Over decades, those families and researchers have taken part in clinical studies and trials to understand how the mutation causes dementia and whether it can be prevented. The book follows the patients, caregivers, and scientists and explores the human and ethical challenges of that research.

North Sun follows the whaleship Esther’s 1878 voyage from New Bedford toward the Chukchi Sea. As Captain Arnold Lovejoy and his crew hunt northern waters, their journey grows increasingly brutal, uncanny, and mythic. Part sea‑voyage adventure and part allegory, the novel explores endurance and the human and environmental costs of industrial whaling.

Set against the backdrop of a racially divided America, this compelling narrative follows the journey of a young African American boxer who rises from the gritty streets to the dazzling lights of the boxing ring. As he battles formidable opponents, both inside and outside the ring, he becomes a symbol of hope and resilience for his community. Through trials of personal sacrifice, societal pressures, and the pursuit of justice, the story delves into themes of identity, ambition, and the relentless fight for equality, painting a vivid picture of the struggles and triumphs that define the human spirit.

In Joyride, Susan Orlean reflects on her life and career as a journalist, following the curious threads that lead her from a profile of a ten‑year‑old to a woman who keeps twenty‑seven tigers, a Saturday night scene, and even a climb up Mt. Fuji. Part memoir, part craft guide, it pairs personal anecdotes with practical observations about finding ideas, reporting, meeting deadlines, and coping with writer’s block and self‑doubt.

Four teenagers forge a deep bond during one summer on a seaside pier, and their friendship gives rise to a striking painting. Twenty-five years later, aspiring artist Louisa follows the painting’s trail to uncover how it was made and how connections between people can shape lives.

John Green follows the story of Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient he met in Sierra Leone, and uses Henry’s experience to explore the science, history, and social forces behind tuberculosis. The book examines how poverty and health inequity allow a preventable, curable disease to remain a leading cause of death, and calls for greater access to treatment and awareness.

Mamie “Mamie” Fish, the self-styled theme-party queen of the Gilded Age, staged extravagant, theatrical gatherings—elephants in ballrooms, dogs in diamonds, guests dressed as dolls—that were equal parts spectacle and strategy. This book traces how her wit, showmanship, and social networks turned parties into a form of power, shaping business, politics, and society at a time when women had little formal authority. A lively, spoiler-free portrait of how leisure and excess became tools of influence.

At a Chesapeake Bay rental, the Cassidy-Shaw family reels after an autonomous minivan collides with an oncoming car while 17-year-old Charlie is at the wheel. During a week of recovery, secrets, a police investigation, and the arrival of a tech mogul connected to the family—including Lorelei, an AI researcher—raise tensions and complicate the question of who is to blame. The novel examines how AI-driven technologies complicate responsibility, trust, and family bonds.

Toni at Random explores Toni Morrison’s lesser-known role as an editor, showing how she shaped manuscripts, supported fellow writers, and helped influence American literary culture. Drawing on research and firsthand accounts, Dana A. Williams traces Morrison’s editorial relationships and the ways her work extended her influence beyond her own novels.

The Zorg recounts the true story of an 1780 Dutch slave ship that, after coming under British command, embarked with hundreds of enslaved people aboard. When the vessel ran low on water, crew members resorted to a brutal decision that led to a high-profile legal case in England and exposed the violence of the transatlantic slave trade. The book reconstructs the voyage, the lives of those involved, and the episode’s role in galvanizing early abolitionist efforts.

A collection of eleven darkly comic, dreamlike stories about childhood misfits and struggling adults. Williams sketches idiosyncratic characters — from heiresses and men suspended in schooltime memory to a haunted visitor and a strange “pelican child” — against a ruined, urgent landscape. spare, often uncanny prose explores isolation, moral decay, and small, hard-won moments of understanding without revealing outcomes.

Bad Company explores how private equity affects everyday life by following four American workers—a Toys R Us floor supervisor, a rural doctor, a local newspaper journalist, and a public housing organizer—whose employers were transformed by buyouts. Through their stories the book shows how private equity ownership can reshape jobs, public services, and communities, and examines the industry’s secrecy, financial priorities, and wider social consequences.

A concise biography of Robert Louis Stevenson that follows his life from Edinburgh to the South Pacific. It covers his best-known works (Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), his lifelong ill health and energetic creativity, his partnership with his wife Fanny, and his years in Samoa where he was nicknamed “Storyteller.” Drawing on Stevenson’s letters, the book illuminates his personality and artistic development without revealing plot details.

In this intriguing narrative, the protagonist finds themselves trapped in a peculiar time loop, reliving the same day over and over again. As they navigate through the repetitive cycle, they delve into the intricacies of human existence, exploring themes of memory, identity, and the passage of time. The story unfolds with a blend of philosophical musings and emotional depth, inviting readers to ponder the nature of reality and the significance of each moment in the continuum of life.

Melting Point reconstructs the Galveston Movement of the early 20th century, when thousands of Russian Jews were redirected to Texas to escape persecution. Using only letters, diaries, newspapers and interviews, Rachel Cockerell traces her great-grandfather David Jochelmann, Israel Zangwill and other migrants across continents and decades, exploring choices about identity, belonging and assimilation without revealing key plot details.

Awake is a candid, often funny memoir in which Jen Hatmaker tells of the sudden end of her long marriage and the emotional fallout that followed — grief, anxiety, parenting five children, and financial uncertainty. Through intimate vignettes spanning childhood, marriage, and midlife, she examines the beliefs and systems that shaped her life and describes how she reckoned with change and began to rebuild. The result is a raw, compassionate account of loss, resilience, and starting over.

Sera Swan, a witch who lost much of her magic after resurrecting her great-aunt, now helps run a country inn in Lancashire while managing eccentric guests, a mischievous talking fox, and a strained relationship with the local magical Guild. When an old spellbook hints at a way to restore her power, she teams up with Luke, a historian staying at the inn, and they unravel mysteries, face consequences, and form unexpected bonds. The novel follows Sera’s journey to reclaim her magic and rebuild her life with the help of a quirky, found family—without revealing how it all turns out.

The Book of Alchemy is a short, practical exploration of journaling as a tool for creativity and resilience. Drawing on Suleika Jaouad’s years of journaling and contributions from many writers and artists, it pairs themed essays with prompts and reflections—on beginnings, love, loss, rebuilding, and more—to help readers process difficult experiences, ask deeper questions, and develop a sustained creative practice.

Left alone in her house for the weekend, a woman reflects on how the arrival of her friend’s teenage daughter, Stella, intensifies the tensions in her already troubled family. Watching from the window as her unfaithful husband, brooding son and distracted daughter go about their lives, she becomes increasingly anxious, and the household’s simmering unease builds into a tense, claustrophobic domestic drama.

Luke Randall, a Black country singer who built his career on a hit he didn’t write, returns to his hometown to open for his childhood idol. There he meets August Lane—the woman who actually wrote the song and his teenage love—who forces him into a deal: co-write a new song and perform it or she’ll expose him. As they collaborate, old feelings resurface and August must decide whether to demand a public reckoning or trust the man Luke has become.

Burned out from city life, Emelie retreats to the countryside and discovers a secluded group of seven misfits led by the charismatic Sara. Drawn into their alternative community, she navigates shifting loyalties and hidden tensions, as the novel explores belonging, identity, and the ways people shape one another.

When Maju, a nanny, disappears while caring for Cora, the event destabilizes the child's family and exposes long-held tensions. Fernanda, a driven executive facing her own crisis, her emotionally distant husband, and Maju each confront fears, desires, and the pressures of class and motherhood as the search unfolds. Set in São Paulo, the novel explores identity, maternal guilt, and the strains of contemporary urban family life without revealing key plot developments.

The Broken King is a personal memoir that follows three generations of Black American men—an absent father, an estranged brother, and the author’s own sons—as it examines race, trauma, alcoholism, parenting, and mental illness. Thomas traces his upbringing in the Boston suburbs, the pressures of success, and a breakdown that leads to a difficult but hopeful path toward recovery and self-understanding.

Tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog wordt een onbekende soldaat met geheugenverlies gevonden; jaren later ontdekt hij zijn familie en keert terug naar huis. Terwijl hij probeert zijn plek opnieuw in te nemen bij zijn vrouw Julienne en hun kinderen, wordt hij geteisterd door nachtmerries en schuldgevoelens over zijn oorlogservaringen. De roman onderzoekt op indringende wijze geheugen, identiteit en de moeite om jezelf opnieuw te vinden.

A concise biography of Gertrude Stein that follows her life at the center of Paris’s artistic circle, her partnership with Alice B. Toklas, and the emergence of her unconventional writing. The author traces how Stein shaped her public persona and examines the creative and personal influences behind her work, drawing on archival research to illuminate her life without revealing key plot points.

In 1899, struggling English writer Evelyn Dolman marries Laura Rensselaer expecting an inheritance, but when she is mysteriously disinherited the couple travel to Venice and take up residence at the ancestral Palazzo Dioscuri. Strange occurrences and Evelyn’s growing paranoia turn the novel into an atmospheric psychological noir that explores uncertainty, obsession and the blurring of reality and illusion.

The Perfect Tuba follows Sam Quinones as he explores the people, history, and communities built around the tuba. He profiles musicians and instrument-makers trying to recreate a famed 1930s tuba, highlights figures like Big Bill Bell and Arnold Jacobs, and visits tuba scenes from New Orleans to Roma, Texas, where a high school marching program changes students’ lives. The book shows how a modest instrument can inspire craftsmanship, joy, and community.

Red Scare is a narrative history of McCarthyism and the post–World War II anti‑Communist campaigns in the United States. Using newly declassified documents, Clay Risen traces the rise and fall of the Red Scare through roughly 1957, showing how politicians and government networks pursued alleged Communists and damaged thousands of lives. The book examines well‑known episodes like the Hollywood blacklist and explores the political, cultural, and personal consequences of the era through figures such as Joseph McCarthy, Roy Cohn, Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Nixon, and others.

Is a River Alive? explores the idea that rivers can be regarded as living beings. Robert Macfarlane combines travel writing, reporting, and natural history across three journeys — to cloud-forests and mountain streams in Ecuador, wounded creeks and lagoons in India, and wild rivers in Canada under threat from mining, pollution, and dams — woven with the intimate story of a chalk stream near his home. The book examines how different cultures, laws, and landscapes shape our relationships with rivers and asks what it would mean to recognize their life and rights.

Dead and Alive is a collection of essays by Zadie Smith that combines personal reflection and cultural criticism. Smith profiles visual artists, writes about film and music (including Tár and Stormzy), takes readers on a walk through Kilburn High Road, and reflects on the deaths of several writers while considering political change and the idea of “the commons.”

John Cassidy presents a global history of capitalism told through the perspectives of its critics. Moving from early colonial companies and industrial revolts to 20th‑century movements and contemporary debates, the book profiles both well‑known thinkers and lesser‑known voices to show how dissenting ideas have shaped economic theory and illuminate present‑day issues like automation, inequality, and climate change.

Ron Chernow’s biography traces Samuel Clemens’s journey from Missouri and riverboat pilot to the literary figure known as Mark Twain. Using extensive archival sources, the book examines his rise as a humorist and novelist, his public lectures and political views, the financial failures and years spent in Europe, and the personal losses that marked his later life. It places Twain in the context of westward expansion, industrialization, and post–Civil War debates over race, presenting a vivid, balanced portrait of his talents and contradictions.

Searches blends memoir and reporting as Vauhini Vara examines how language models and tech companies have changed the way we speak and tell stories. After using an AI to write about her sister’s death, she traces her own history with online communication, explores how corporations harvest human-created language, and considers how we might reclaim a more humane relationship with our machines.

In 1899 at a declining English country house, Grace — an aspiring painter and skilled forger — must reckon with a man who claims to be her cousin Charles, long presumed lost at sea, and the family split his arrival creates. As she hides her own talent for deception, Grace is forced to decide whom to trust and, in the process, confronts questions of authenticity, family, desire, and the value of wealth.

Little Bosses Everywhere examines multilevel marketing in the United States, tracing its origins, how the recruitment-based business model works, and the social and economic effects on people who join. Bridget Read combines industry history, reporting on political and financial connections, and personal stories of individuals—workers, parents, and others—who were drawn into MLMs by promises of independence but often faced financial and emotional costs.

An investigative look at how Spotify transformed the music industry, drawing on interviews with industry insiders, former employees, and musicians. Liz Pelly examines the platform’s algorithms, playlist-driven culture, and business model to explain how personalization and streaming economics have reshaped how music is created, distributed, and consumed—and how artists and listeners are responding.

December 1962, in a small village near Bristol: two neighbouring young couples—one in a newly appointed doctor’s cottage, the other in a run-down farm—find themselves bound by the easy friendship of the two expectant women. When an unusually severe winter isolates them from the outside world, the enforced quiet removes everyday distractions and brings simmering resentments and unforeseen discoveries to the surface, forcing each couple to reckon with their relationships and futures.

A man relocates to Lisbon to prepare a new home while his wife stays in New York for her research on memory and fear. As he settles into the quiet neighborhood, an inexplicable unease grows and the routine of their new life begins to fray. The novel follows his mounting uncertainty and explores how memory and emotion can warp perception of reality.

In winter 1951, child development scholar Bernadette Baston is called to a remote Puget Sound island penitentiary to evaluate a feral adolescent girl found living in the woods. As Bernadette investigates, she becomes entangled in the island community’s hidden loyalties and must navigate the limits placed on her as a mother, wife, and professional.

When Lea Ypi finds a stranger’s photograph of her grandmother honeymooning in 1941, she launches an inquiry into a family history that seems at odds with what she was told. Moving between archives, memories and fragmentary records, the book traces the vanished worlds of Ottoman Salonica, the turmoil of the Balkans, war and the rise of communism to ask who her grandmother really was. It is a reflective investigation of identity, historical truth and how we judge the choices of past generations.

On a bluff above a river, The House is an experimental intergenerational home run by a former punk singer where elderly and disabled residents live alongside young people who trade help for rent. When two children, Nola and her cousin James, arrive seeking refuge, the fragile community must face outside pressures—authorities, money troubles—and reckon with the obligations and limits of care. The novel follows the tangled, often funny and painful dynamics of this chosen family as it tests whether everyone can find a place to belong.

A vivid, emotionally charged novel about a mother and her teenage son on parallel journeys—one moving through an otherworldly limbo, the other fleeing a treatment center and traveling south. As they encounter strange companions, storms, and the ache of memory, the book explores motherhood, childhood, and the fragile ties that bind family.

In 1982 Orvop, Utah, two teenagers—local Tom Gatestone and newcomer Kalin March—risk everything to rescue a pair of neglected horses. What begins as a daring act of compassion turns into an arduous journey into the nearby Katanogos mountains, bringing danger, unexpected events, and lasting consequences for them and their town. A sweeping, character-driven story about friendship, courage, and the costs of bold choices.

The Finest Hotel in Kabul uses the story of the Inter-Continental Kabul to explore Afghanistan’s modern history through intimate portraits of the people who kept the hotel running. Drawing on Lyse Doucet’s decades of reporting and personal experience inside the hotel, the book follows long-serving staff, a pioneering female chef, and younger Afghans whose lives reflect the country’s hopes, losses and resilience. It is a human-focused, spoiler-free portrait of everyday life amid ongoing political upheaval.

Twin sisters Clara and Dempsey — long estranged after their mother disappeared into the Thames — are pulled back together when Clara spots a woman in London who looks exactly like her. Clara becomes convinced the woman is their missing mother while Dempsey suspects a con, and their clash forces both sisters to confront the past and reckon with questions of identity, family and the cost of choosing yourself.

The Cia Book Club tells how US intelligence covertly sent millions of Western books into the Soviet bloc during the Cold War to circumvent censorship and offer alternative ideas and culture. It follows key figures—notably Bucharest-born George Minden—and describes the covert networks, risks, and moral tensions involved in bringing literature, art and reassurance to readers behind the Iron Curtain, without revealing outcomes.

Hala Alyan’s memoir follows her path to motherhood through surrogacy and how that choice forces her to confront infertility, marital strain, and the legacy of her family’s exile. As she revisits memories of Beirut and stories passed down from previous generations, she pieces together questions of identity, belonging, and what it means to make a home for herself and her child.

Ning, a retired boxer who works in a nail salon under the name Susan, spends a single summer day tending to clients while watching the patterns of her work and the people around her. Quietly observant and sharply drawn, the story follows her navigation of anonymity, class, and the complicated ties with coworkers and customers, exploring identity, labor, and longing without revealing key plot details.

Peter, a solitary asylum lawyer in New York, is forced to confront a long-buried past when a client’s case reawakens memories of his first love and a night of violence. His estranged mother, Ann, who has built a life apart from him, must also face the secret that has kept them apart, and the novel traces their tentative, emotionally charged journey toward truth and possible reconciliation.

Tom Layward, who once vowed to leave his wife after their youngest daughter turned eighteen following her affair, puts that plan into motion while driving their daughter to college and keeps heading west. The novel follows his solitary road trip and memories as it examines the emotional complexities and aftermath of a long-term marriage.

People Like Us follows two Black writers whose lives intersect against a backdrop of gun violence—one on a book tour, the other preparing to speak at a school after a shooting. The novel mixes realist scenes with dreamlike, surreal elements (time slips, strange creatures, and vivid memories) to explore loss, love, belonging, and the search for peace, balancing sharp humor with emotional depth.

Necessary Fiction follows more than two dozen interconnected characters navigating queer life in contemporary Lagos. Through their relationships, careers in art and entertainment, and clashes with family and faith, the novel examines desire, identity, and the chosen forms of belonging people create to survive.

Set against the backdrop of the Cold War, this compelling narrative delves into the complex relationship between the United States and Latin America, exploring the political, economic, and cultural dynamics that have shaped the region. Through a blend of historical analysis and vivid storytelling, the book examines the impact of American foreign policy and intervention on Latin American countries, highlighting the struggles for democracy, sovereignty, and social justice. It offers a critical perspective on the legacy of imperialism and the ongoing quest for a more equitable and autonomous future in the Americas.

Water Mirror Echo is a cultural biography of Bruce Lee that follows his journey from segregated San Francisco and a youth in Hong Kong to his return to the United States and emergence as a global figure. Jeff Chang examines how Lee popularized martial arts in the West, bridged Eastern and Western perspectives, and helped shape early ideas of Asian American identity, drawing on interviews, personal documents, and family photographs.

Set in seventeenth-century Denmark, The Wax Child follows noblewoman Christenze Kruckow as she tries to escape rumors that she practices witchcraft — blamed for illness, misfortune, and even for fashioning a sinister wax child. She moves to the port city of Aalborg, but suspicion and fear follow her, exploring how rumor and superstition can upend a life.

An 82‑year‑old Neapolitan named Nicola spends his days by the sea recording life’s small details in a notebook while watching a nearby coastal town. Observing a young store clerk and remembering the women who shaped him, he confronts the limits of language, memory, and desire. Quiet and reflective, the novel explores aging, imagination, and the struggle to capture what slips beyond words.

Apple in China examines how Apple’s decision to concentrate production in China helped build the country’s electronics manufacturing dominance while leaving the company deeply dependent on an authoritarian state. Drawing on interviews with former Apple employees and industry sources, Patrick McGee outlines how massive scale and profitability from iPhone manufacturing brought political and operational vulnerabilities—data rules, pressure to work with local suppliers, and exposure to Beijing’s demands. The book situates Apple’s business choices within the broader US–China geopolitical tensions.

In 1980 Manhattan, fourteen-year-old Griffin Hurt struggles to balance his role as a child TV star with the pressures of an elite prep school, a demanding coach, and a family in quiet disarray. When he becomes involved with Naomi Shah, a significantly older married woman, his attempts to confide in her complicate his search for identity and maturity. Playworld follows one intense year of miseducation and emotional coming-of-age against the shifting backdrop of a city and era in flux.

All Consuming examines how food shifted from a routine necessity to a central part of contemporary life. Through essays, Ruby Tandoh traces the social, economic and media forces—supermarkets, restaurants, television and social platforms—that have reshaped tastes, dining habits and the modern culture of food.

A narrator moves to Nowa Ruda, a small town in Silesia, and—guided by her enigmatic neighbor Marta—collects the personal stories, legends, recipes and gossip of the townspeople. These interlocking vignettes form a lyrical mosaic that traces the town’s layered past and shows how ordinary lives and places connect across time.

Girls Play Dead is a narrative nonfiction exploration of womanhood, trauma, and survival. Blending memoir, reporting, and cultural history, the book traces the author’s childhood and personal experiences alongside stories of women who respond to danger by freezing, joining cults, preparing bunkers, or taking desperate action. It examines how people become trapped by abuse and fear, and the psychological and social forces that shape — and sometimes free — their responses to violence.

Something from Nothing is a collection of straightforward, pantry-first recipes that show how to turn everyday shelf-stable ingredients into flavorful, relaxed meals. Covering snacks, soups, vegetables, pastas, grains and proteins, it emphasizes an intuitive, flavor-forward approach for both weeknights and casual entertaining.

A collected selection of Seamus Heaney’s poems tracing the development of his voice over a long career. The poems blend rural life, myth, memory and language, moving between intimate personal reflection and wider social and historical themes with vivid imagery and careful craft.

The Golden Road examines how India, in the ancient and early medieval periods, exported religion, art, science, mathematics and institutions across Eurasia—from Afghanistan to Japan. It traces the movements of merchants, scholars, artisans and missionaries to show India’s role as a central economic and cultural hub shaping civilizations such as Angkor and Ayutthaya.

In a narrative that intertwines the lives of diverse characters, the story delves into the intricate relationship between humans and the earth, exploring themes of sustainability, community, and personal growth. Through a tapestry of interconnected stories, the book highlights the importance of nurturing the land and each other, revealing how the soil beneath our feet holds the key to healing and transformation. As characters navigate their individual journeys, they discover the profound impact of their choices on the environment and their own lives, ultimately finding redemption and hope in the embrace of nature.

In 1889 Paris, doctor Aurora Montalban Wright runs an underground women’s clinic and accepts protection from Apollo César Sinclair Robles, the newly anointed Duke of Annan. Their pragmatic arrangement grows into a complicated attraction as Aurora fiercely guards her independence and Apollo navigates his public role. When a threat from their past forces them away to his villa on the French Riviera, they must confront whether their relationship can survive the risks and expectations around them.

Mark Whitaker traces how Malcolm X’s reputation transformed after his 1965 assassination, showing how he became a major cultural and political icon. The book maps his influence across the Black Power and Black Arts movements, music and hip‑hop, sports, film, and contemporary activism, and notes how figures across the political spectrum have cited him. Whitaker also reexamines the legal history surrounding Malcolm’s murder and the efforts to revisit the convictions connected to the case.

In a captivating narrative that intertwines the past, present, and future, the story follows Cate Kay, a woman who finds herself living three distinct lives across different timelines. Each life presents unique challenges and opportunities, forcing Cate to confront her deepest fears and desires while navigating the complexities of identity and choice. As she grapples with the consequences of her decisions in each life, Cate embarks on a journey of self-discovery, ultimately seeking to reconcile the fragmented pieces of her existence into a cohesive whole. This tale of resilience and transformation explores the profound impact of the choices we make and the lives we lead.

At dawn in the Guilleries mountains, a remote farmhouse called Mas Clavell gathers family and caretakers as an impossibly old woman nears death. Over the course of a single day and night, the house fills with voices and memories that span four centuries, tracing the lives, labors, desires, and rituals of the women who have lived there. Lush with folklore and natural detail, the novel weaves together personal history and the land’s own presence into a portrait of community and memory.

Joseph Lee, an Aquinnah Wampanoag from Martha’s Vineyard, examines what Indigenous identity means today. Blending personal and family stories with conversations with Indigenous leaders, artists, and scholars, he explores culture, language, colonial legacies, climate change, and the politics of belonging. The book offers a reflective, accessible look at how Indigenous perspectives can reshape community and national narratives.

Set in Gaza’s Beach Hotel — a four-star media hub where reporters shelter and file stories amid conflict — Vulture follows ambitious journalist Sara as she chases the story that will make her career. When her fixer refuses a dangerous assignment, she turns to Fadi, a young member of a powerful militant family, and her decisions illuminate the moral compromises, complicity, and human cost of war reporting.

The Killing Fields of East New York examines how decades of housing policy, predatory lending, and mortgage fraud transformed a once‑thriving Brooklyn neighborhood into a place of violence and abandonment. Framed by the 1991 murder of 17‑year‑old Julia Parker and the ensuing spike in killings, Stacy Horn traces the crisis back to post‑1960s housing programs and the ways banks, realtors, and corrupt officials exploited them. The book combines investigative journalism and true crime to show how white‑collar crimes helped produce the neighborhood’s collapse.

Euphemia Flite, trained at a secret Academy that teaches women to undermine powerful men, is sent to infiltrate a viscount whose actions threaten women’s rights — succeed and she’ll earn her freedom. Gabriel Royce, a gambling-house owner who benefits from the viscount’s protection, stands in her way, and their clashes grow tangled with an unexpected attraction. From London’s rookeries to Mayfair ballrooms, Euphemia must navigate duty, danger, and the risk of losing her heart.

In 1970s East Village, Ivan and his friend Eddie experiment with heroin; after a medical emergency one night, Ivan leaves Eddie in a crowded ER. That single act of abandonment haunts Ivan for decades and quietly alters the lives of others connected to that night. The novel follows a cast of characters over time, exploring guilt, responsibility, and how one choice can ripple through a community.

Tongues is a graphic-novel retelling of the Prometheus myth set in a version of modern Central Asia. It follows the captive god, his fraught relationship with the eagle that torments him, and his pursuit of revenge, while interweaving the stories of an East African orphan on an errand of violence and a drifting young man carrying a teddy bear. The book reimagines ancient myth through contemporary characters and themes of suffering, connection, and consequence.

Cameron Crowe’s memoir follows his teenage years as a young music journalist in the 1970s, traveling with and interviewing major rock artists and gaining rare backstage access. It’s a coming-of-age account about finding his voice, the relationships and creative encounters that shaped his career, and the family influences that steered him into journalism and filmmaking. The book offers vivid snapshots of the era and Crowe’s early life without revealing specific plot details.

Set in late 15th-century England during the Tudor rise, this novel follows Lambert Simnel, a boy raised as a peasant who is revealed to be of royal blood and groomed as a figurehead in a dynastic struggle. Sent for education and turned into a pawn across courts from Oxford to Burgundy and Ireland, he forms a crucial alliance with Joan, a politically savvy and determined young woman. The story explores identity, court intrigue, and the high stakes of claims to the throne, without revealing its outcome.

Rocky’s life in Western Massachusetts—shared with her husband Nick, their daughter Willa (home from college), son Jamie in New York, and Rocky’s widowed father Mort—feels ordinary until she becomes preoccupied with a nearby accident and a potential medical concern. As her anxieties grow, the family navigates love, change, and the uncertainty of who people really are, with moments of humor and quiet tenderness.

Cannon opens a book amid the wreckage of a restaurant on a sweltering Montreal night, having acted out of character and left a trail of regret. The story follows her relationship with Trish—her long-time friend and fellow second-generation Chinese queer woman—whose weekly ritual of cooking and watching Australian horror films anchors them as they navigate the uncertain transition into adulthood.

Photographic Memory is a graphic biography in which cartoonist Bill Griffith traces the life and work of his great-grandfather, William Henry Jackson, an early photographer of the American West. Drawing on family letters and archival sources, Griffith explores Jackson’s expeditions, the impact of his images on how Americans viewed the West and the national parks, and the relationship between photography and storytelling, all told in a personal illustrated style.

Ginseng Roots is a graphic memoir in which Craig Thompson recalls summers spent with his siblings weeding and harvesting American ginseng in rural Wisconsin. Through detailed pen-and-ink scenes he weaves family memories with the centuries-long history of the global ginseng trade, exploring childhood labor, class and migration, and the changing landscape of farming and home.

The Waterbearers follows Sasha Bonét’s exploration of Black motherhood across three generations—her grandmother in Louisiana, her mother in Texas, and her own experience raising a daughter in New York. Blending family memoir with historical and literary portraits of Black women, the book examines how love, labor, and trauma are inherited and considers ways to honor ancestral strength while breaking cycles of violence in parenting.

A sharp, empathetic family saga that traces multiple generations of a Taiwanese immigrant family and their American-born descendants as they navigate migration, memory, and the daily erasures of assimilation. Through intimate domestic scenes, wry humor, and piercing social observation, it examines how language, food, storytelling, and casual xenophobia shape identity and belonging, asking what it means to be repeatedly asked "where are you really from" and how families carry—and remake—their histories in a new country.

In a quiet Austin branch library, four librarians—Hazel, Jonathan, Astrid, and Sophie—each carry their own secrets and reasons for staying. When a sudden murder shatters the safety of their workplace, they must learn to trust one another and protect the library and themselves.

A blend of memoir and reportage, Blessings and Disasters follows Alexis Okeowo’s return to her hometown of Montgomery, Alabama, weaving her family’s story with the state’s history—from the forced removal of the Creek Nation and slavery to modern industrial change and contemporary political and educational fights. Through intimate portraiture and reporting, Okeowo examines how Alabamians reckon with a past of injustice while still loving their home, revealing the complexities behind the state’s place in American history.

Strangers and Intimates traces how private life emerged as a hard‑won cultural achievement and examines the forces now putting it at risk — from state and corporate surveillance to confessional, ‘tell‑all’ culture and the politicization of intimate spaces. Using historical episodes (from early modern debates about the sanctity of the home to 19th‑century letter‑opening scandals) and contemporary examples like reality TV and social credit systems, the book argues that privacy is a precious resource that needs active protection.

Precious Rubbish is an experimental graphic memoir that uses the visual language of mid‑century children’s comics to revisit a difficult childhood marked by emotional instability, rural poverty, and abuse within a Pentecostal context. Presented as short comics, gag panels and interactive elements (paper dolls, mock ads, puzzles), the book combines deadpan humor with spare, unsettling imagery and asks readers to help fill in gaps of memory and meaning.

Jeannie Vanasco chronicles the increasingly fraught relationship with her mother after the latter begins using the silent treatment while living in Vanasco’s renovated apartment. Tracing their shared past and the pattern of silences—from weeks to months—the memoir examines how punishment, loneliness, and unspoken resentments shape their bond and Vanasco’s attempts to understand and reconnect, all while facing the fear that her mother may never speak to her again.

Jada Williams, a former Hollywood wardrobe designer now working for minimum wage at a mall, finds herself targeted by the Debt Police after losing her job. Refusing to be crushed by crushing student debt, she teams up with two fellow mall coworkers to pull off a bold plan to erase their loans and strike back at a predatory system. The story is a darkly comic, character-driven heist about debt, survival, and revenge.

The Martians reconstructs the late 19th–early 20th-century frenzy over life on Mars, centered on astronomer Percival Lowell’s claims that telescopic images revealed canals and signs of civilization. Drawing on clippings, letters, and photographs, it follows the scientific debates, public excitement (including reported radio signals), and the cultural ripple effects that helped launch science fiction and a lasting fascination with life beyond Earth.