Set in Belfast during the 1941 Blitz, this story follows two sisters and their family across four devastating nights as bombs transform their city and their lives. One tentatively embraces first love while the other grapples with duty, ambition, and desire, each confronting rigid social expectations and class divides. Moving between streets, shelters, and hospitals, it weaves the terror and disorder of air raids with the fragile intimacies of daily life, revealing resilience, moral complexity, and the bonds that sustain people when everything seems to be falling apart.

Twelve Post-War Tales is a collection of short stories that examines how war and its aftermath shape ordinary lives. Through intimate portraits of soldiers, medical professionals, veterans and family members across generations, the book explores memory, loss, resilience and quiet moments of grace.

After a brutal assault at an illegal rave on a Yorkshire farm, an ambitious young journalist investigates, tracing connections between a banker landlord, a provocative columnist and a radical collective occupying the site. Her reporting exposes tangled motives and, without offering easy answers, probes how language and rhetoric shape power, truth and public perception.

On a rainy night in Camden in December 1996, 20-year-old Eily and 40-year-old Stephen—an established actor—retrace their two-year relationship to understand why it is faltering. Through their intense, intimate conversations the novel examines buried secrets, shifting power between youth and fame, and the fragile nature of love and memory.

Paz Dario, exhausted from waiting for a Death‑Cast call that would end his life, decides to take action—only to be saved at the last moment by another boy. Alano Rosa, tied to the company behind Death‑Cast and facing threats from a violent group, is forced to confront his own lack of control. When Paz and Alano cross paths, they lean on one another to face danger, mortality, and what it means to actually live. Contains mature and potentially difficult themes.

Zeb Wyckham is summoned to remote Lackaday House and finds himself surrounded by estranged family and his ex‑lover, Gideon Grey. The house’s master demands that his fortune go to whoever marries his young ward, triggering greed and rivalry — then the estate locks them in as unsettling events begin. Trapped and afraid, Zeb must face old feelings and help uncover the dangerous secrets hidden within the manor.

Kinsey leads a remote desert research outpost and values the solitude that keeps her life carefully controlled. After her team uncovers a strange creature in the sand and Kinsey breaks quarantine to bring it inside, its presence begins to unravel the crew as it searches for a new host.

Mabel’s favorite day is Monday. Every week she drags a chair to the window and waits for something she thinks is the best thing in the world, and her family only begins to understand when they finally see what she’s been watching for.

Pilgrim Codex tells the story of the Vargas Ramírez family as they leave Iztapalapa and journey north in search of a better life. Seen through a child’s eyes and illustrated in the style of an ancient codex, the book blends Mesoamerican mythic imagery with the family’s perilous crossings, encounters, and resilience during their migration.

This Might Surprise You by Hayley Gullen is a graphic memoir that follows her diagnosis, treatment and recovery from breast cancer. Using cartoons and personal narrative, it captures the physical and emotional realities of living with cancer and includes practical advice on navigating medical care and talking with family. Candid, often funny and compassionate, it serves as a companion for people undergoing treatment and those who support them.

In 1986 San Francisco, MIT dropout Martin Hench drifts into the nascent personal-computer scene and becomes an early practitioner of forensic accounting. Hired to investigate a Silicon Valley firm, he instead joins a scrappy women-led startup and is pulled into a dangerous, high-stakes rivalry where new technology reshapes business — and crime. The book follows Marty as he navigates ambition, loyalty, and the brutal culture of early PC-era startups without revealing the outcome.

Paul Lisicky traces how Joni Mitchell’s music shaped his life and craft, from a young songwriter in New Jersey to a writer wrestling with love, loss, and creative longing. Blending memoir and reflection, the book explores how her songs served as a guide and inspiration for his artistic identity.

When an anonymous email invites residents of Lanier, Indiana to take a survey about sexual practices, the town’s private lives begin to surface. Through a series of linked vignettes — from a coach recovering after Covid to a bartender turning to writing and a bureaucrat with a vendetta — the novel explores the hidden desires, tensions, and connections of a Midwestern community in the wake of the pandemic, all while the mystery of who sent the survey lingers.

A World Without Summer recounts the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora and the global climate disruption that followed, showing how ash clouds ruined harvests, displaced communities, and reshaped daily life around the world. It also traces cultural ripple effects — including the conditions that helped spark Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein — and links this historical event to ongoing questions about climate and resilience.

A lively, playful picture-book text follows a youngster giving a school presentation about the anaconda, mixing surprising, child-friendly facts about its size, habitat, diet, and behavior with gentle myth-busting and humorous illustrations; through the presenter's earnest, sometimes nervous voice the story encourages curiosity, careful observation, and respect for wild animals while making science accessible and entertaining for young readers.

After a hurricane damages her branch, children’s librarian Tansy Perkins must temporarily move the library into the county botanic gardens, where she clashes with the prickly assistant director, Jack Reid. Forced to collaborate on the spring festival, their uneasy partnership grows into a tentative attraction that makes both of them reevaluate the plans and protections they’ve built around their lives and responsibilities.

Charlie Book, who studies and lives aboard the half‑sunken freighter Christabel off Galveston, finds his quiet routine upended when Ruby Cahill returns with a terrified woman and an infant seeking refuge. They take shelter on the ship’s eerie “floating forest” as a violent storm gathers and a menacing group closes in, while restless flocks of birds scour the coastline. Tense and atmospheric, the story follows their desperate attempt to survive one long, dangerous night.

Two siblings, Hansel and Gretel, become lost in a shadowy forest and must rely on courage and cleverness as they face eerie dangers and unsettling encounters in this illustrated reimagining of the classic Grimm tale.

Salsa Daddy offers 75 salsa recipes and 25 simple meals highlighting traditional and modern Mexican salsas—from quick chopped or blended preparations to richer sauces simmered for depth. It shows how salsa can serve as a dip, condiment, or the centerpiece of a meal, with recipes ranging from bright pico de gallo to nutty, chile-forward blends. The focus is on approachable, joyful cooking that brings salsa to the center of the table.

Sydney Parks is unexpectedly chosen for a sequestered jury in the high-profile case of Margot Kitsch, a reality TV star accused in her husband’s death. Her childhood best friend Damon—whom she hasn’t seen in a decade and with whom she once had more-than-friend feelings—is also on the jury, and old attractions and unresolved issues resurface despite rules against fraternizing. As the trial unfolds, Sydney must balance her personal history, new sparks, and the responsibility to keep the proceedings fair.

Robert Doughten Savile, nicknamed Doughty, is a delusional young man from Connecticut who drifts into early-’90s New York convinced that wealth and status are his birthright. He spins grandiose lies and cons his way into people’s lives while failing professionally and sliding into substance use and risky behavior. The novel is a darkly comic portrait of entitlement, manipulation, and the damage one person can inflict on others.

Cry For Me, Argentina is a memoir by Tamara Yajia about growing up between Argentina and the United States in an eccentric, often chaotic family. Balancing early experiences as a young performer with cultural displacement and creative hustle, Yajia writes with sharp, candid humor—sometimes raunchy—about identity, family ties, and coming of age.

Vinh Nguyen's memoir follows his family's escape from Vietnam after the fall of Saigon and his later search for his father, who vanished during their exodus. Traveling through former refugee camps and abandoned family homes, he gathers scattered memories and stories to explore displacement, identity, and the long, personal aftermath of war.

Breakneck is a concise investigation of China’s rapid, engineering-driven transformation and the social costs that have accompanied it. Drawing on reporting and analysis, the book examines how large-scale state-led projects, governance choices, and recent political shifts shape China’s society and its global competition with the United States—offering a framework to understand both the strengths and weaknesses of the Chinese model.

A posthumous collection of essays by David McCullough that argues for the value of history in understanding the present and shaping the future. Through reflections on political character (with examples like George Washington and Harry Truman), personal influences, and the role of art, McCullough stresses the importance of viewing history through the eyes of its participants. The pieces offer concise, accessible meditations on American ideals and the craft of historical storytelling.

Dinner is a collection of 120 vibrant, easy-to-make vegetarian and vegan recipes aimed at solving “what’s for dinner?” with flavourful, approachable dishes. It includes mains, sides and desserts — from quick-cook and one-pan recipes to oven-ready meals — drawing on global flavors like paneer, kimchi, satay and more. Practical and reliable, the recipes are designed to make weekday and weekend dinners enjoyable and stress-free.

On a summer morning seven mysterious doors appear, opening onto another world and upending ordinary life. Twin sisters Ayanna and Olivia—Black teens from the Midwest—are pulled in different directions; when one vanishes, the other must search for answers while confronting questions of family, faith, and identity.

Haley Mlotek mixes personal memoir with cultural and literary reflection to explore divorce in contemporary life. Drawing on her upbringing around divorce, her work in her mother’s mediation practice, and her own end to a twelve-year relationship, she reflects on how separation reshapes ideas of family, love, and identity while asking who divorce is for and what it reveals about marriage and the future.

American Grammar examines the origins of public schooling in the United States through the nineteenth century, showing how education was shaped by and helped reproduce racial hierarchies affecting Black, Native, and white communities. Givens traces how profits from slavery, seizure of Indigenous lands, and federal policies funded schools and boarding systems that advantaged white students, and argues that contemporary disputes over curricula and access reflect these long-standing structural forces. Combining archival research and personal reflection, the book offers a revised origin story and language for imagining a more equitable education system.

A graphic biography of Jane Austen that uses the motif of a quilt to weave together moments from her life with excerpts from her letters and novels. Kate Evans combines detailed period illustration, comic-style scenes and an embroidered chapter to create an intimate, visually rich portrait of Austen without revealing plot details.

Nikki returns to North Carolina at the summons of her estranged grandmother, Mother Rita, who shares the story of their ancestors’ mountain settlement — a community of formerly enslaved people who called their home the Kingdom of the Happy Land. As Nikki learns about Queen Luella and the family land that has shaped generations, she must reckon with her identity and what it will take to protect that legacy.

Singapore, 1972: in the city’s shadowy alleys, ancestral gods and unsanctioned magic persist through street gangs. Adeline Siow, a solitary schoolgirl who can summon flame, investigates her mother’s death and is drawn into the Red Butterfly, a gang of girls bound to a fire goddess. As rival gangs and strange new magic unsettle the streets, Adeline must navigate dangerous loyalties and a violent struggle for power.

Good Movies as Old Books by Matt Stevens reimagines over 200 films as vintage-style book covers. Through original illustrations, typography, and design, each cover distills a movie’s tone and visuals into a single evocative image, offering a fresh, artful way to view familiar films across genres and eras.

In 1928 Amelia Earhart met publisher George Putnam, and their professional partnership soon became a marriage that shaped her public life and career. The book examines how Putnam’s publicity strategies and their personal dynamics influenced Earhart’s ambitions, risks, and compromises, using archival material and interviews to present a nuanced, spoiler-free portrait of their relationship and its impact on her legacy.

Leah Zhang, who has always lived in Los Angeles and feels out of touch with her family’s culture, is sent on an intensive two‑week travel program across China to reconnect with her roots. On the trip she runs into Cyrus, a sarcastic former classmate, and their antagonism gives way to an unexpected connection as they explore cities, food, and landscapes together. The journey prompts Leah to rediscover parts of herself, reconsider what home means, and open up to new possibilities—without giving away the surprises along the way.

A compact, practical cookbook designed for tired weeknight cooks, offering speedy, flavor-forward recipes and time-saving techniques that rely on pantry staples, simple preparations and smart shortcuts. It focuses on making satisfying, homemade meals quickly after a long day, with approachable instructions and tips to streamline cooking without sacrificing taste.

In a colonized land where tigers are nearly extinct and old magic stirs, a servant named Lee Seung and a noblewoman, Choi Eunji, form an uneasy alliance to try to change their fates. Their relationship shifts from allies to rivals as they clash over the last tiger—a symbol of their people’s freedom—while facing competing loyalties and a rival from the imperial court. Each sets out on a dangerous quest and must find the courage to shape their own destiny.

Kirby Tan, once the school’s top rock climber, is sidelined by an injury and ends up joining the newspaper for extra credit. Partnered with Bex Santos to co-write an astrology-based love column, Kirby finds herself confronting unexpected feelings as their project brings them closer. As she explores a slow-burn romance and her own identity, Kirby must also navigate tensions with her family and church.

Joanna Pocock recounts two cross-country Greyhound journeys — one in 2006 while grieving miscarriages and a return trip in 2023 — blending personal reflection with close observation of American towns, highways, motels, and landscapes. As she revisits the same places, she explores how infrastructure, economy, and environment shape communities, memory, and the changes between those two moments in time.

Dear Writer is a collection of short, craft-focused essays and generative prompts that explore ten aspects of creativity—attention, wonder, vision, play, surprise, vulnerability, restlessness, tenacity, connection, and hope—offering practical guidance and exercises writers can apply across genres without spoilers.

Changeover explores the end of the Big Three’s long dominance and the rise of a new generation in men’s tennis. Focusing on the pivotal 2024 season, it traces how Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner emerged as the sport’s leading figures, contrasts their styles and rivalry, and looks at how the rest of the field — and Novak Djokovic’s continuing competitiveness — shaped a transition into the next decade.

A richly illustrated, instructive collection that blends clear step-by-step technique demonstrations with classic and contemporary recipes and personal anecdotes; it focuses on building foundational skills, elegant presentation, and creative adaptations so home cooks and professionals can learn reliable methods and gain confidence in the kitchen.

Strata follows four pivotal chapters in Earth’s deep past—the rise of atmospheric oxygen, the global ice ages known as Snowball Earth, the spread of muddy land environments and plants, and the dinosaur-era hothouse—by reading rock layers and traveling with the scientists who study them. Through field visits and clear explanations, Laura Poppick shows how oceans, continents, atmosphere, ice, and life have interacted over deep time and what those interactions suggest for the planet’s future.

After the Civil War, many formerly enslaved people spent years searching for loved ones separated from them by slavery, placing newspaper “information wanted” ads, writing letters, and enlisting church networks. Drawing on an archive of nearly 5,000 such documents, the book reconstructs those searches and the personal stories behind them, highlighting the resilience of the searchers and the human cost of family separation.

In this Southern Gothic historical fantasy, Phee St. Margaret—a sheltered daughter of a free Black business family during Reconstruction—defies her controlling mother to travel to Horizon and accept the role of pomp for her estranged aunt’s funeral. In her aunt’s unsettling house she begins to see visions and shadows that blur the line between life and death and reveal hidden family secrets.

Two young brothers return to the lake where they used to swim with their father. As one hesitates to dive, the other offers comfort and courage, and together they move through memories, grief, and the quiet strength of their bond in a series of tender, illustrated moments.

After a normal afternoon bike ride, Amber—who died seven years earlier—suddenly reappears, upending the lives of her family and the small community that never stopped mourning her. Her older sister Melissa, estranged parents, friends, and even strangers must confront grief, memory, and the lingering effects of Amber’s life and death. As Amber tries to understand who she was and why she’s back, the story explores identity, loss, and how one person’s life can ripple outward.

A tightly wrought collection of stories that probes the messy, often destructive edges of love and desire, following ordinary people whose attachments — romantic, familial, and platonic — reveal the quiet violences and betrayals underlying everyday life. With spare, acutely observed prose and a darkly ironic tone, the book moves through moments of longing, obsession, and loss to show how small choices and withheld truths escalate into lasting consequences.

Arabella, a thirty-five-year-old New York theatre director, accepts an opportunity to stage a daring, cross-dressing take on a Shakespeare play in the West Bank as her career and love life stall. Her match‑making grandmother Zoya arranges a meeting with Aziz, a Palestinian American doctor, even as Arabella is attracted to Yoav, an Israeli American designer—tensions that echo Zoya’s own past and the unresolved choices of her sister Naya. The story follows family ties, desire, and how old secrets shape new relationships.

An illustrated, experimental memoir that invites middle-grade (and adult) readers to experience the author’s world through his disabling eye conditions. Through interactive visuals, short anecdotes, and playful reading exercises—vision tests, upside-down pages, and chased words—the book explores how perception shapes connection and how language can help bridge discomfort with disability. A short, immersive, spoiler-free look at seeing and being seen.

Marisa, a young professional in Madrid, has built a fragile persona to survive the monotony and small humiliations of corporate life. She hides at work, seeks refuge in art and substances, and rests on a shaky foundation of stolen credit. When a mandatory company retreat in the Segovia forests forces her into close quarters with coworkers and retreat staff, isolation and pressure push her toward risky impulses and a personal unraveling. The novel is a darkly comic exploration of identity, boredom, and self-deception.

A collection of Thomas Mallon’s journal entries from the 1980s and 1990s that follows his early years as a gay writer in New York City. The entries capture daily life in the literary scene—relationships, friendships, the social world, and the effects of the emerging AIDS crisis—while tracing his personal and professional growth. Intimate and observant, the book offers a vivid, reflective portrait of that era.

Two linked stories — in 2016 Half Moon Bay, a woman waits for her missing father and follows cryptic instructions that lead her to a Berkeley library book; in 1933 Vienna, a young mathematician joins an intellectual circle as fascism rises and rumors spread of a mysterious “music box” said to affect time. As inquiries across decades intersect, the novel examines secrecy, memory, and obsession without revealing key plot twists. It’s an atmospheric historical mystery about people trying to understand loss and the uncertain nature of the past.

Songwriter Joni Lark returns to her North Carolina hometown hoping the beach and her family’s music venue will break her creative block, but finds relationships strained and the venue in jeopardy. She begins hearing a mysterious melody and voice that turn out to belong to a gruff local musician who soon appears in person. They agree to finish the song that links them, hoping it will end their strange connection — and force them to face what it might mean for their hearts.

A lyrical illustrated exploration of humanity’s shared origins, tracing how early people in Africa used curiosity, courage, and creativity to invent painting, music, dance, medicine, and travel. Through vivid paintings, it imagines those first moments and centers Black people in the story of humankind’s beginnings.

In late-1980s France, poet–psychologist Jon-Perse acquires an early computer and, with his Uzbek translation partner Abdulhamid Ismail, feeds it fragments of Persian poetry. The resulting program that both analyzes and generates text becomes the catalyst for a multilingual, postmodern meditation on authorship, translation, and how history, philosophy and longing are refracted through human and digital minds.

Carol Tyler’s The Ephemerata is a graphic memoir that wrestles with loss, mortality, and estrangement. Through intimate scenes, varied page layouts, and expressive brushwork with subtle color, Tyler combines words and images to trace memory and inner monologue, offering a compassionate, reflective look at grief without spoiling specific events.

Unshrunk is Laura Delano’s memoir about being diagnosed with bipolar disorder at 14, spending years in psychiatric care and trying numerous medications, and ultimately deciding to stop treatment. Using her medical records, doctors’ notes, and research on psychiatric drugs, she reflects on how diagnoses and medication shaped her life and identity and questions the medicalized approach to emotional distress.

In 1959, Freda Gilroy arrives at Fisk University from Chicago and confronts Southern racism as she becomes involved in the early Civil Rights Movement, forced to choose how much to sacrifice for justice, love, and family expectations. In 1992 Chicago, her daughter Tulip is a driven public-relations professional shaken by the Rodney King verdict and workplace racism; she takes a risky stand that could upend her career. The novel traces both women’s parallel struggles to balance personal ambition, community responsibility, and the pursuit of racial equality.

Graydon Carter’s memoir traces his journey from Canada into the American magazine world and his long tenure as editor of Vanity Fair. He recounts building a staff and stable of contributors, working with figures such as Si Newhouse and Annie Leibovitz, and developing recurring features like the New Establishment and the annual Hollywood issues, including the Vanity Fair Oscar party. The book offers behind-the-scenes, spoiler-free stories about editing, publishing and cultural life during the print-magazine era.

In a near-future where most wildlife has disappeared, Camille cares for animals at the last zoo on Alcatraz Island. When a new keeper, Sailor, arrives they form a close bond and imagine a hidden sanctuary where animals can be free. Sailor proposes a risky plan to smuggle a prized animal off the island, forcing Camille to decide whether to risk everything for that hope. The story explores loss, connection, and the lengths people will go to protect the natural world.

A concise collection of life lessons and personal stories from chef and humanitarian José Andrés, reflecting on cooking, leadership, resilience, and how food can bring people together and inspire meaningful social change.

Lina, a sixth-grade girl, sets off alone to spend the summer in a rural valley but finds the place unexpectedly strange. After a mysterious encounter with wind, mist, and a magic umbrella, she arrives at a grand house on a cobbled street and, while taking on new responsibilities, discovers friendship and grows in understanding of herself.

Hannah, a young Eritrean refugee, arrives in London and spends her early weeks moving between a foster home in Kilburn and sleeping in the squares of Bloomsbury. As she confronts the UK's asylum system, she explores her sexuality and the limits of personal agency, using intimate encounters to assert herself against intrusive bureaucracy. The novel interweaves past and present to portray a woman searching for refuge and a voice.

Orphan Maggie Fishbone is sent to the Midwatch Institute for Orphans, Runaways, and Wayward Girls and discovers it’s a school where girls learn to solve mysteries and protect the city. As she makes friends and trains in everything from fencing to secret skills, Maggie’s first assignment—searching for a missing woman—pulls her into the city’s hidden secrets in this whimsical, illustrated adventure.

A short, laugh-out-loud picture book that humorously warns readers never to trust fish. Using absurd examples— they live where we can’t see them, some are enormous, their “schools” are mysterious, and their behavior seems suspicious — it turns a nature guide into a playful, off-the-rails comedy.

A comprehensive cookbook and cultural exploration of Southern U.S. food, featuring over 260 recipes—from biscuits, breads, mains, and sides to stews, sauces, and desserts—alongside contextual essays on the region’s diverse culinary influences. Recipes include classic and lesser-known dishes with clear headnotes and step-by-step instructions, accompanied by vivid food photography to illustrate the traditions and flavors of the American South.

Medicine River is a personal and journalistic examination of the U.S. Native American boarding school system and its long-term effects. Ojibwe journalist Mary Annette Pember centers her mother’s experience in a boarding school and combines interviews and historical reporting to show how these institutions attempted to erase Native culture, the harm done to families across generations, and the persistence of community resilience and cultural survival.

As the Thursday Murder Club helps with a wedding, their quiet year is interrupted when a guest turns up in danger. The friends face kidnapping, a murder, and a plot to steal an uncrackable code, and must race to piece together clues and stop the villain before it’s too late.

This concise biography follows his journey from a Puerto Rican upbringing in New York to becoming a pioneering composer, lyricist and performer who fused hip-hop, Latin rhythms and classic Broadway to reshape contemporary musical theater; it covers his early interest in songwriting and stage work, the creation and impact of his landmark shows, the challenges he faced along the way, and his broader cultural influence on representation and the arts.

A sweeping narrative that treats partition as a recurring process rather than a single event, tracing how colonial border-making, communal politics and state violence carved up the Indian subcontinent from the 1930s through the 1970s; it combines archival research, personal testimony and vivid storytelling to show how successive divisions — including the 1947 split and the later emergence of Bangladesh — remade communities, identities and national boundaries at enormous human cost.

Over seven days a woman named Kinga manifests as seven distinct personas—Kinga A–G—each with different habits, jobs and temperaments. When one persona finds a man tied up in their apartment, the Kingas must confront suspicion and the possibility that one of them may be trying to harm the others. The book is an inventive, suspenseful exploration of identity, inner conflict and how many versions of oneself can coexist.

Adrian, a strikingly beautiful twenty-nine-year-old in New York, drifts through transactional relationships that both sustain and endanger him. His close, complex friendship with Mark, a celebrated painter who has returned home to Northern California, anchors a story about art, desire, intimacy, and the ways exposure and longing shape identity and connection in 2021.

A compact illustrated biography that follows the pioneering photographer whose experiments with sequential photography captured animal and human motion, laid groundwork for motion pictures, and mixed scientific curiosity with personal turmoil—covering his photographic expeditions, inventive motion studies, and the scandal and violence that shadowed his private life while showing how his obsession with movement transformed vision and technology in the late 19th century.

Two elderly sisters, Evelyn and Lily, live alone in a walled garden, keeping to daily tasks—tending bees, planting crops, and following the almanac left by their mother. When a nameless boy is discovered hiding in their home, their quiet, isolated lives are disrupted. His arrival breeds suspicion and forces the sisters to confront unsettling truths about themselves and the world beyond the garden.

Playwright Eve Ambroise retreats to the Tennessee mountains to regroup after a breakup and family estrangement, only to find her plans complicated by a charming—and guarded—neighbor. Jamie Gallagher, a single dad rebuilding his life after a custody battle, and Eve gradually draw closer as they confront their pasts and learn to trust again. The novel follows their slow-burning romance and personal reckonings without revealing how their choices play out.

In spring 2020, Rachel Bloomstein—a recently divorced mother of three in Brooklyn—finds herself confined at home while her renewed sexual desire and hunger for change lead her into online dating and new relationships. Hoping to synthesize the best parts of her romantic life, she programs an AI chatbot named Frankie, and the story uses that experiment to examine technology, identity, and the messy realities of midlife, family, and freedom.

An illustrated collection that examines twenty traditional murder ballads, tracing their origins, evolution, and cultural impact—including themes of patriarchal violence, white supremacy, and the songs’ ties to contemporary true-crime fascination. Each entry pairs a researched reflection with an original macabre illustration and a list of notable recordings, offering a concise, spoiler-free guide to the darker side of folk music.

Dream School helps families rethink college choices by shifting focus from prestige to fit, value, and career outcomes. Drawing on research and a large survey, it explains why elite degrees are not the only path to success and offers practical guidance — including profiles of 75 accessible, affordable colleges — to help students find schools that provide strong job prospects, hands-on learning, and a sense of belonging.

Nils Vik, an aging ferry driver, wakes certain that today will be his last. On his final route along the fjord, memories and figures from his past quietly reappear to accompany him as he revisits ordinary moments that shaped his life while he waits for his late wife, Marta.

Pakistan by Maryam Jillani is a cookbook that explores Pakistani cuisine and the cultural influences behind its flavors. It offers more than 100 recipes—ranging from sauces and chutneys to aromatic curries, breads, and desserts—along with regional essays and photography to introduce readers to traditional dishes and techniques. Sample recipes include Spiced Chicken Dumplings, Tangy Potato Curry, Slow‑Cooked Lamb, Saffron‑Infused Flatbread, and Parsi Wedding Custard.

Fifth-graders J and K — one a visual storyteller and the other a wordsmith — both enter their school's annual creative storytelling contest. Their rivalry turns into a funny, scheming showdown of artist versus writer, full of comics-style creativity and inventive twists, as they compete for the top spot.

Set in Japan during the final days of World War II, Daikon follows physicist Keizo Kan after he loses his daughter and his wife Noriko is arrested. When a downed American bomber is found to contain an unexpected uranium bomb, the Imperial Army forces Kan to examine and ready the device in exchange for his wife’s freedom, forcing him to confront impossible moral choices amid the city’s ruins.

A keenly observed collection of linked short stories that follows characters at emotional crossroads—neighbors, lovers and strangers—whose small betrayals, miscommunications and chance encounters expose longing, regret and the unexpected consequences of ordinary choices. With spare, wry prose, the pieces probe identity, desire and the fragile ties that bind people to one another and to place.

A concise, persuasive guide that identifies the invisible force that sabotages creative and professional efforts and offers practical remedies: recognize and name resistance, adopt a professional mindset, establish rituals and discipline, and persist through fear and procrastination. Through short, direct chapters it explains how self-sabotage manifests and argues that consistent practice, commitment, and treating work as a calling are the keys to unlocking creative potential.

A lyrical picture book that follows a Southern family gathering around a special table for year‑round celebrations. Through moments like anniversaries, Juneteenth, weddings, and the arrival of a new sibling, the story celebrates family, community, and Gullah Geechee traditions without revealing plot details.

The Trouble Up North follows the Sawbrooks, a family of Michigan bootleggers whose generations-long smuggling legacy is strained as money runs out and relationships fray. With patriarch Edward ill and his wife Rhoda at odds with their three adult children—Lucy the park ranger, Buckner the troubled veteran, and Jewell the bartender and gambler—the family faces rising tensions as old customs collide with a changing world. They must confront their past and decide how far they'll go to protect their land and way of life.

A compact, revealing life story of the Cuban-born musician and showman who rose from modest origins to help transform American television: it traces his childhood in Cuba, early musical success, immigration to the U.S., the passionate and tumultuous partnership and marriage with a comic star, their co-creation of a groundbreaking sitcom and Desilu Studios, his business savvy and production innovations (multi-camera shooting before live audiences, syndication), and the personal flaws—temper, infidelities, alcoholism—and professional ups and downs that complicated his legacy, concluding with an assessment of his lasting contributions to entertainment and the ambivalent remembrance of a charismatic but conflicted figure.

On Muscle is an engaging exploration of muscle—its biology, cultural meanings, and role in health and identity. Bonnie Tsui combines science, reporting, and personal narrative to examine cardiac, smooth, and skeletal muscle, and to explore themes of endurance, recovery, and the body–mind connection. The book traces historical and contemporary stories—from research labs to community practices—to show how muscle shapes movement and who we are.

In the 1970s, volunteer counselor Martha “Marty” Goddard pushed hospitals and police to collect evidence and treat sexual-assault survivors with dignity, helping to develop the standardized “rape kit.” Journalist Pagan Kennedy follows Goddard’s story, examines how this forensic innovation changed investigations, and reflects on the wider history of forensic practice and her own responses to sexual assault.

Nesi, an acolyte desperate to earn a divine patron, prays to T’sidaan, a trickster Fox god who flings her three hundred years into the past. Stranded in a homeland occupied by the brutal Wolfhounds of Zemin, she must learn a trickster’s guile and rally allies from the past to confront the Wolf of the Hunt and secure her future.

A candid coming-of-age memoir in which Jeffrey Seller recounts growing up adopted in a struggling Michigan neighborhood, discovering his sexuality and a passion for musical theater, and moving to New York to build a career. He navigates the challenges of the city’s theater world during the HIV/AIDS crisis, learns the business from the ground up, and ultimately finds community and artistic purpose.

Sarah Ahn and her mother Nam Soon Ahn present 100+ Korean family recipes paired with practical pantry and grocery guidance. Interwoven mother-daughter conversations share kitchen wisdom, personal stories, and clear instructions for making banchan, kimchi, stews, snacks, and desserts.

A lyrical collection of poems reflecting on aging and the passage of time, offering a steady, observant love of people and things and an openness to beauty and mystery, even amid an uneasy awareness of violence in American life.

Childhood best friends Joni and Ren keep their bond alive by being each other’s annual wedding plus‑ones, even after Joni moves away. After a falling‑out, they must pretend to be close again at a family summer wedding, and old feelings and unresolved hurt resurface. The novel follows their reunion as they navigate friendship, second chances, and whether their relationship can become something more.

Seventeen-year-old Sebastian moves to the controlled community of New Gault to care for his ailing, difficult mother. At TECH, a school whose devices and rules limit speech to prevent bullying, he clashes with student ambassador Lu; as they form a bond, both teens must reckon with trauma, trust, and the costs of enforced safety while exploring a tender queer romance.