A child leaving town creates a hand-drawn guide to their house, school, and neighborhood—marking favorite spots, routines, and small details—and leaves the book for the next child moving in. The story gently explores moving, memory, and the way personal landmarks make a place feel like home.

A graphic memoir about an immigrant woman who arrives in New York City after leaving an abusive relationship. As she pieces together fragmented memories and rebuilds her life, she finds unexpected belonging and a complicated love for the city. The book quietly explores trauma, healing, displacement, and the search for identity without revealing plot details.

Set in Renaissance Florence, Florenzer follows three ambitious young men whose lives intersect: a twelve-year-old Leonardo da Vinci who leaves the countryside to pursue painting, Francesco Salviati, a marginalized youth who turns to the Church for status, and the young Lorenzo de’ Medici, poised to become a powerful political and financial figure. Against a backdrop of artistic rivalry and political tension, the novel explores ambition, identity, and the dangers faced by gay men (called “florenzers”) in the city.

Ye Lian’s steady life in Beijing — a good job, a long-term boyfriend, and plans for the future — is upended when her childhood friend Luo Wenyu returns after a decade in California. Wenyu’s reappearance and a hidden past force the two women to reassess their relationships and ambitions, pushing them to choose between the safety they know and uncertain, risky possibilities.

Origin Stories is a short-story collection by Corinna Vallianatos that explores how relationships — marriage, motherhood, friendship — and creative longing shape lives. Set mainly in Southern California and Virginia, the stories follow women negotiating desire, shame, belonging, and the search for meaning with quiet, observant prose.

Viola and Wilmur, two orphans from the colorless town of Caveat, join Captain Cadence Chase and her eccentric pirate crew after striking a bargain that involves giving up a mysterious book. As they sail the dangerous Dickerson’s Sea, they search for their missing parents and uncover secrets that test their friendship and force them to decide what they’re willing to sacrifice.

Kelsey McKinney, drawing on her experience as the host of the Normal Gossip podcast, blends memoir, reporting, and cultural criticism to explore why we gossip, what we hope to get from it, and when it becomes harmful. Written with wit and personal anecdotes, the book questions how we define gossip, why we obsess over others’ private lives (including celebrities), and how gossip can be used to harm or control people.

Karen Palmer’s memoir recounts how she vanished with her two young daughters to escape a dangerous ex-husband and lived under a new identity. It follows the flight, the difficulties of concealment, and the emotional aftermath as she reflects on fear, agency, and the costs of difficult choices.

An oral history of the atomic bomb’s development and deployment at the end of World War II, built from interviews, diaries, letters, and official records. It weaves together perspectives from political leaders, scientists, bomber crews, survivors, and rescuers to examine the scientific breakthroughs, military choices, and moral questions surrounding the weapon and its aftermath.

A young Cuban-American girl's family history and the bittersweet experience of leaving home are gently explored as she watches relatives come and go, learns the meaning of different kinds of goodbyes, and holds on to memories and cultural bonds that keep her connected across distance and change.

A collection of autobiographical essays in which Jeff Hiller traces his path from growing up “profoundly gay” in 1980s Texas through work as a social worker to decades of struggling as a working actor. With sharp humor and candid reflection, he recounts bullying, odd jobs, failed auditions, and the small triumph that brought wider recognition, offering a warm, relatable look at aging, resilience, and chasing a dream.

Erica Skyberg, a 35-year-old closeted trans woman who teaches high school in a small South Dakota town, develops an unexpected friendship with Abigail Hawkes, a 17-year-old student and the town’s only openly trans girl. As they support each other through questions of identity, isolation, and community expectations, their bond helps both women confront what it means to be seen. The novel is a tender, character-driven story about friendship, self-discovery, and the courage to live authentically.

Edie grows up in rural America under an abusive, alcoholic father. When she discovers a relative’s Depression-era diary, it prompts her to reckon with family trauma and the pull between childhood freedom and adult responsibility. The story follows her coming-of-age as she navigates small‑town joys, danger, and the question of whether she can break the cycle that shaped her.

A collection of more than 100 seasonal, restaurant-quality recipes rooted in Catalano’s Italian-American home cooking, featuring pastas, vegetable-forward dishes, breads, condiments, sandwiches, and sweets. Practical tips on market shopping, broths, sourdough, and menu planning help home cooks recreate elevated meals with confidence.

A collection of seven essays that examine how internet-era pop culture reshapes femininity, our relationship to bodies and consumerism, and the way we mythologize founders and icons. Through personal reflection and cultural analysis—looking at diet-tracking apps, games like Animal Crossing, and tech mythology—the book explores how cult-like thinking has seeped into everyday life and asks readers to consider their own complicity.

After eating dumplings at a night market, workaholic Noelle Tom begins reliving the same Friday over and over: the same alarm, the same Wordle, and a proposal that never sticks. During the loop she keeps encountering Cam, a man who doesn’t seem to remember her, and must choose to step away from her routine and take risks to try to get unstuck. A gentle, romantic time-loop story about connection, change, and learning to live in the moment.

Sofía, a freedwoman born into slavery, arrives at the island of Isla Bestia to find her twin brother and encounters the intoxicating, otherworldly Carnaval de Bestias. As she follows whispers of her Taike’ri heritage through the carnival’s performances and secrets, she must confront those who profit from her people and resist a growing, uncanny pull that threatens to consume her.

Ten young women wake in a remote desert compound and discover they are being filmed for a televised competition; ten men will arrive soon and the contestants must compete for survival and prizes under constant surveillance. As alliances form and tensions rise, they face moral choices and the harsh realities of a controlled, voyeuristic contest.

A vibrant, accessible cookbook that adapts Persian and broader Middle Eastern flavors into quick, kitchen-friendly recipes for everyday meals, emphasizing bold spices, fresh herbs, pantry-friendly ingredients and simple techniques to create salads, mains, sides and desserts that deliver bright, aromatic food without complicated steps.

A Native American boy grows his long hair and wears braids, cared for each morning by his father. Teased at school, he draws strength from family stories about ancestors who were forced to cut their hair and forbidden from practicing traditions. A tender, spoiler-free picture-book portrait of cultural heritage, identity, and resilience.

A young naturalist's obsessive search for a missing historic bird specimen becomes a doorway into a hidden world of feather collecting, illegal trade, and the fragile archives of museums; mixing personal sleuthing with forensic science and historical detective work, the narrative uncovers how colonialism, Victorian collecting habits, and modern hobbyists have shaped—and sometimes shattered—the study and survival of birds.

Fiona Addai — a popular online sleuth known as @Princess_PI — tries to reclaim her late brother’s invention from a tech company and instead finds herself accused of murder. She hires Maurice Bennett, a jaded private investigator, to help clear her name and teach her real-world detective work. As they dig into a shady start-up, their partnership intensifies and they must learn to trust each other to uncover the truth.

A young girl living in a drab, lifeless city discovers a small seed and quietly nurtures it; over time the seed grows into a lush, life-filled oasis that brings color, animals, and a sense of wonder back to the people around her, illustrating how a single, gentle act can restore hope and reconnect a community with the natural world.

Elān, a storyteller, frees a raven that knows where the Koosh invaders’ lost weapon is. Tasked with captaining a canoe crewed by an unlikely team — including a bear-cousin, a massive wolf, and the vulgar raven — he must cross stormy seas and face giants and other dangers to retrieve it. As their world changes and alliances shift, Elān must decide what role he will play in the struggle to save his people.

On the foggy Oregon coast, a creature called the Watcher appears to feed on secrets. After Shay and her girlfriend Lauren are caught up in a strange attack, they recruit aspiring photographer Zoe and friends to document the legend before it exposes their hidden truths. Tense and atmospheric, the book blends queer romance and small-town mystery as the teens race to protect one another and their secrets.

Celebrate is a seasonal collection of celebration bakes organized by Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, with additional sections for Party Food and Cakes. It offers recipes for traybakes, layer cakes, quiches, tarts, breads, pastries, desserts and cookies, with clear, reliable instructions and accompanying photography for a range of occasions.

Notes to John is Joan Didion’s journal of psychotherapy sessions begun in 1999 and kept for her husband, John Gregory Dunne. It records candid conversations about alcoholism, adoption, depression and anxiety, family relationships (including with her daughter Quintana), work, childhood, and questions of legacy, offering an intimate account of a decade‑long analysis.

Two veteran negotiators, Hussein Agha and Robert Malley, examine the collapse of the Israeli–Palestinian peace process and the roots of the 2023 violence. Drawing on decades of secret talks and experience advising Palestinian and U.S. leaders, they offer candid portraits of key figures and argue that policy choices — including an overreliance on technical fixes and the late embrace of a two‑state framework — helped make a lasting solution unlikely. They contend recent cycles of violence reflect deeper historical grievances and emotional divides that go beyond questions of territory, and consider what those realities mean for the future.

Two siblings on a small island experience a thunderstorm from its first gusts through its fierce peak to the calm afterward. With rhythmic text and vivid illustrations, the book captures the sounds, sights, and sensations of the storm in a comforting, sensory way that both reassures children who fear thunder and delights those who enjoy dramatic weather.

Waiting on the Moon is a memoir of Peter Wolf’s personal encounters with 20th-century artists and musicians. Through brief, intimate vignettes—meeting figures from musicians to actors and painters—he reveals small, human moments behind public personas while weaving those encounters into reflections on his own life with humor and warmth.

An intimate collection of poems that follows an aging, ungendered body through memory, loss, and desire. The work examines grief, changing landscapes, and questions of embodiment—longing for different origins while trying to protect the self. Language shifts between music and silence, offering candid, lyrical meditations on sorrow, endurance, and the small practices that make renewal possible.

A selection of poems from Patricia Smith that spans her career, bringing together new and chosen work. The poems move between grief and resilience, confront personal and historical pain, and celebrate language’s power to witness, resist, and find joy—an intense, lyric exploration of living.

Alabama Village is a narrative nonfiction portrait of an impoverished neighborhood south of Mobile, Alabama, centered on the Light of the Village church and the people who rely on it. Through intimate, nonjudgmental profiles — including a church worker who saw his first shooting at eight, a man with repeated jail time, a woman starting a cleaning business, and a generous local with unclear means — the book explores loss, resilience, faith, and community.

A lively, accessible cake cookbook offering a wide range of reliable, do-able recipes for everyday and special-occasion cakes—from simple loaf and sheet cakes to elegant layered and frosted creations—paired with clear step-by-step instructions, practical tips on techniques and timing, helpful variations and troubleshooting, and guidance on make-ahead and storage so home bakers can confidently whip up delicious cakes anytime.

Unfit Parent by Jessica Slice explores the realities of parenting with disabilities, challenging myths that label disabled people "unfit" and detailing the stigma, discrimination, and practical barriers they encounter. Drawing on personal experience, interviews, and disability studies, Slice shows how disabled parents’ adaptive strategies and cultural insights can offer hopeful, practical ways to make parenting more inclusive and sustainable.

Eighteen-year-old Eternity Price, serving a death sentence, is offered a shot at clemency if she can win public votes on a high‑stakes reality show. As contestants fight for their survival and she longs to reunite with her younger brother, Eternity must navigate new friendships and impossible choices that test her ideas of forgiveness, family, and freedom—without knowing who she can trust.

A lyrical collection of poems about motherhood, homemaking, and the messy realities of caring for a household and the natural world that surrounds it. Parks records close observations of gardens, animals, and urban waterways to examine human attempts to shape nature, the limits of that control, and how children and other-than-human beings teach new ways of relating to place and care.

Elfreda Marsden, an aspiring archaeologist, thinks she’s found proof of Viking activity on her family’s estate until the amulet is lost after a collision with Georgie Redmayne, her charming childhood enemy recently returned from London. Needing new evidence and cash, the two reluctantly team up to hunt for a hidden hoard of Viking gold, and the quest draws them into unexpected adventures that awaken feelings neither expected. This queer historical romance follows their slow-burn shift from rivalry to something more, with high stakes tied to the treasure they seek.

Inspector Henry Cutter has grown withdrawn, and Sergeant Gideon Bliss worries as a series of meticulously staged murders unfolds. The cases offer baffling clues and draw Bliss into investigations Cutter keeps oddly distant. With help from journalist Octavia Hillingdon, Bliss must step out of the inspector’s shadow to uncover hidden motives and confront difficult questions about truth, duty, and justice.

Words for My Comrades traces Tupac Shakur’s life beyond his music, showing how being the son of Black Panther Afeni Shakur and growing up around radical politics shaped his art, activism, and public persona. Using interviews and oral histories, Dean Van Nguyen explores the personal and political influences on Tupac and the continuing impact of his and his mother’s commitment to racial justice. The book situates Tupac within decades of Black political struggle and examines how that history has been reflected and transformed through culture.

A faith-rooted, practical guide that urges readers to let go of the emotional defenses—pride, perfectionism, busyness, anger—that keep them from authentic relationships and spiritual growth, explaining how those protective habits form from past hurts and distort identity; through personal stories, biblical insight, and concrete steps it teaches vulnerability, repentance, forgiveness, and community as the path to inner healing and closer connection with God and others.

Set in early-2000s Chicago, Great Disasters follows six lifelong friends as they move through high school into adulthood, encountering love, alcohol, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the protests they provoke. Told from the narrator’s recollections, the novel traces how political events and personal choices—college, military service, relationships, and family—reshape friendships and identity without giving away key plot points.

Seventh-grader Grace is struggling after her parents' divorce and the end of a close friendship. Feeling lost at school and at home, she becomes intrigued by the school's fencing club and wonders if learning the sport might help her gain confidence, make new friends, and find a place where she belongs.

Emily and her family run a bakery where they can bake emotions into their desserts—uplifting treats for confidence or comfort when you need it. After a sudden family loss, Emily breaks the one rule—never bake a bad feeling—and creates a crumble that offers numbness rather than healing. The graphic novel follows Emily and her friend Dae as they navigate grief, friendship, and the messy, complicated ways we try to cope.

Thirty-one-year-old Florence Grimes is a single, struggling mother whose life centers on her ten-year-old son, Dylan. When Alfie Risby—Dylan’s school bully—vanishes during a class trip and Dylan becomes the prime suspect, Florence must find the missing boy to clear her son. Unequipped for an investigation and facing hostility from the other parents, she races to uncover the truth while confronting uneasy questions about Dylan’s possible involvement.

Susan “Zuzu” Braeburn is nearly forty with a home, a child, and a partner, but long-buried doubts about past choices and her marriage resurface when an unexpected loss brings her back to her hometown. As she reconnects with her past and the people she left behind, she must face the ‘what-ifs’ that have quietly shaped her life.

In Sundust, two curious siblings roam the sun-baked desert on the edge of their El Paso hometown, exploring nopal trees, old tires, and sleeping rocks as rain and sun shape the land and their days. Spare, lyrical text and vivid illustrations evoke the sensory rhythms of desert life and the quiet ways a place becomes part of a person.

A spirited, semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale told with humor and heart about a young refugee boy who becomes a teacher in a makeshift community called Nomad Land, using stories and imagination to help other displaced children heal and learn. Balancing whimsy and painful truth, the narrative explores identity, belonging, and the power of storytelling to transform trauma, while offering sharp observations on immigration, family, and the search for home.

How to Share an Egg is a culinary memoir in which Bonny Reichert explores how food shapes family, memory, and identity. Prompted by a trip to Poland and a bowl of borscht, she traces her culinary roots—from recipes learned at her grandmother’s elbow and a childhood in the restaurant business to her life as a chef and mother—using food and memories to reckon with her father’s history of wartime deprivation and what survival means across generations. The result is a quiet, food-centered meditation on inheritance, belonging, and finding one’s voice.

Eddie, a Lakota child, spends a summer with his grandparents on the Rosebud Reservation, where he connects with family and learns through everyday activities like riding horses, fishing, and helping in the garden. When a family health challenge arises, Eddie discovers new strengths and responsibility while growing closer to his relatives.

The Appalachian Sea is a collection of poems that inhabits the landscapes and livelihoods of the Shenandoah region, blending everyday work, memory, and the uncanny. Drawing on gothic imagery—haints, dark orchards, wandering ghosts—and the constant flow of rivers, the poems meditate on mortality, change, and the stubborn persistence that makes a home both beloved and strange.

Set in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II, the novel follows Rose Valland, a Jeu de Paume curator who secretly documented Nazi art theft, and Alexandre Rosenberg, a young Free French soldier whose family lost its collection. Their paths converge as they join the Resistance’s efforts to protect and recover looted art amid the dangers of occupation and the Liberation — a tense, character-driven historical thriller inspired by real events.

A personal, graphic exploration of Black militant history framed by the author’s experiences during the upheaval in Philadelphia in 2020. Ben Passmore traces more than a century of armed resistance — from early 20th‑century confrontations through the Black Power era to recent uprisings — meeting the activists and families who shaped the movement and wrestling with the costs of state violence and what liberation might mean today.

Netherlands, 1887: when Lucy’s twin Sarah slips into a disturbing illness—mumbling, refusing food, and fixating on a centuries‑old corpse found on her husband’s estate—Lucy races to uncover the cause and protect her from being committed. As Sarah’s behavior grows more violent and inexplicable, Lucy must confront a mounting horror that may be either possession or madness, and decide what she’s willing to do to save her sister.

Mara awakens on a remote Irish island with no memory of how she died. As she tries to rebuild her life, she encounters strange customs, watchful residents, and a community determined to keep certain truths buried. Atmospheric and unsettling, the novel follows Mara’s search for identity as fragments of her past return and the island’s secrets close in.

Joe Dunthorne investigates his great‑grandfather Siegfried Merzbacher’s hidden past after uncovering a long, unpublished memoir. Merzbacher was a German‑Jewish chemist who created radioactive household products and later became involved in military chemical work in 1930s Germany. Dunthorne follows archival clues and travels across Europe and Turkey to confront the moral complexity and lasting consequences of his family’s history.

New Orleans, 1922: newly turned vampire Cora Velasquez lives in a speakeasy run by a coven and turns to the charismatic Father Orville Thibodeaux for salvation. When he learns her true nature, their clandestine bond becomes a tense, morally charged struggle over desire, power, and control.

After surviving an explosion at Antietam, former Union soldier Ovid Vesper begins having mysterious visions. In the 1880s American West he follows those visions across a nation still recovering from the Civil War, encountering hidden, otherworldly dangers and helping the people he meets while searching for personal peace and answers.

Dead Girl Cameo is a poetic collection in which m. mick powell interweaves memories of queer Black girlhood with reimagined lives of music icons—Aaliyah, Whitney Houston, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, Phyllis Hyman, Selena, and others—to explore sexuality, survival, and queer mourning. Through sensual imagery, speculative verse, and lyric wordplay, the poems meditate on loss, friendship, love, and the afterlives of stardom, imagining how these women’s stories shape possibility and resilience.

Brother Diaz arrives at the Sacred City expecting praise, but is instead put in charge of a dangerous flock of killers, dark sorcerers and monsters. Sent on a brutal mission that will force ruthless choices, he must navigate corrupt princes, hostile forces at the borders, and a hellish journey where unlikely, unholy allies could be his only chance.

In a fledgling world shaped from nothing, humanity’s violence summons a demigoddess from the sea who teaches a language of peace and helps a desert city arise. As order and chaos collide and unseen powers stir, the story follows love, war, and mortality in a visually inventive creation myth.

A lyrical, reverse-chronology portrait of a woman’s life in which her daughter pieces together memories from her final days back to childhood. Through intimate scenes and reflective prose, the book explores grief, memory, family bonds, and how identity is shaped by experience. It is a compassionate meditation on a mother’s life and a daughter’s effort to understand her.

Jonas Olofsson explores the human sense of smell, explaining how olfaction shapes memory, emotion and perception and how it engages the brain even before odor molecules hit receptors. Drawing on neuroscience, psychology, linguistics and history, the book shows why smell has been overlooked, why people can experience the same scent differently, and how smell can be assessed, trained and sometimes recovered after loss. It’s a concise, curiosity-driven look at the science and everyday importance of our often-neglected sense.

Good Things is a concise, warm collection of more than 125 recipes and practical cooking lessons from Samin Nosrat, centered on flavor, comfort, and sharing. It offers approachable recipes for everyday meals and gatherings, along with technique tips, ingredient guidance, and hosting advice—aimed at helping cooks create nourishing food and meaningful moments without fuss.

Groceries is a book-length poem that explores our fraught relationship with objects—how we obtain, name, keep, and discard them. Mixing everyday items (fax machines, horseshoes, waves) with broader ecological questions, it acts as a lyrical guide for listening to and speaking with the material world, considering how objects shape personal and collective futures.

A formally daring collection of poems that reimagines Black life across time through speculative, Afrofuturist lenses, blending fragmented syntax, sonic performance, and visual play to collapse past, present, and future while interrogating language, identity, embodiment, and the social forces that shape how histories and possibilities are imagined.

Integrated examines the consequences of school desegregation for Black communities by tracing four generations of the author’s family. Combining personal narrative and research, Noliwe Rooks shows how desegregation led to school closures, mass firings of Black teachers, and continued discrimination that reshaped educational opportunities and informs present-day disputes over schooling.

Calvin Duncan was convicted of murder at nineteen and spent decades at Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola). With little formal education he taught himself the law, became a jailhouse lawyer who assisted fellow inmates and taught legal classes, and the book—co-written with Sophie Cull—traces his legal coming-of-age and examines the flaws of the criminal justice system.

A dreamlike, poetic reimagining of Jamaica that moves between present-day life and deep historical memory. Told as a mosaic of voices—a mother searching for a missing child, an undocumented migrant, a youth wandering dream-gates—the book explores loss, cultural memory, and ecological decline, with evocative notes on healing herbs, disappearing flora and fauna, and sea spirits. Objects like Zora Neale Hurston’s abandoned camera and rich, cinematic imagery anchor the collection’s eco-spiritual visions without revealing plot twists.

When veteran goalie Jethro Hale is traded to a team coached by Clay Powers — his former lover and the youngest coach in the league — their past affair and unresolved feelings resurface. As the team pursues a big season, they must navigate awkwardness, parenthood and a rekindled attraction that could cause a scandal if it comes to light.

Anna must marry to inherit after her grandfather’s will threatens her independence. To protect her future she enters a high‑stakes horse race and a betting ring, clashing with and gradually falling for the arrogant Lord Julian Ramsay in a slow‑burn frenemies-to-lovers romance.

A candid memoir about an Indian American woman whose long struggle with depression leads her to a persuasive alternative therapist who runs a Mormon-influenced self-help community. Drawn into the leader’s control, she experiences major life changes and ultimately reclaims her autonomy by studying psychology and learning to trust her intuition.

Lili Taylor recounts how a pause from her acting career led her to notice the rich, everyday world of birds. In a series of intimate, spoiler-free essays she shares encounters—from city rooftops to backyard nests—and reflects on how paying attention to birds deepened her sense of wonder, connection, and the importance of small moments.

"Gliff" by Ali Smith is a thought-provoking tale set in a near-future world where societal boundaries are constantly shifting. The narrative follows the lives of two children and a horse as they navigate this uncertain landscape. The story delves into the human quest for meaning and the importance of individuality in an age dominated by data and algorithms. Through fleeting moments and unexpected insights, "Gliff" invites readers to reflect on the significance of leaving a personal mark on the world.

Set against the backdrop of a post-industrial Chicago, this poignant narrative delves into the complexities of family, identity, and the American Dream. Through the eyes of a young woman returning home, the story weaves together personal memories and historical insights, exploring the socio-economic challenges faced by working-class families. As she navigates her family's past and present, the protagonist grapples with themes of loss, resilience, and the enduring impact of deindustrialization on her community, offering a deeply reflective and intimate portrayal of life in a changing America.

Set in the midcentury American Midwest, At Last follows two matriarchs, Helene Simonauer and Evelyn Turner, whose children marry. Both are sharp and cunning and hold conflicting beliefs about marriage, responsibility, and family, and they vie for the love of their shared granddaughter. The narrative traces their lives from different childhoods through pivotal events that shape them, exploring how an unintended relationship can come to define a life.

On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle is a literary/speculative series about Tara Selter, a woman who becomes unstuck from normal time and finds herself reliving November 18 over and over. Rather than treating that premise like a puzzle or thriller, the books use it to explore time, routine, loneliness, perception, and what it means to keep living when the world no longer moves forward in the usual way. It’s quiet, philosophical, strange, and more meditative than action-heavy.

Bright Circle is a group biography that follows five Boston women who in November 1839 formed a conversation society to consider what they were born to do and how to do it. Randall Fuller recounts how figures such as Mary Moody Emerson and Margaret Fuller developed ideas about the self, nature, and feeling while urging male peers to address the rights of enslaved people and of women. Together they helped form the foundations of American feminism.

On May 19, 1884, the yacht Mignonette sank and four men, including Captain Thomas Dudley, were left adrift in a lifeboat. After two weeks without food they chose to sacrifice the youngest, 17-year-old cabin boy Richard Parker, an action that led to their rescue and a murder trial. The book reconstructs both the ordeal at sea and the trial, examining how survival imperatives clashed with moral and legal norms.

A reporting-driven investigation into the anger that fueled the recent populist surge, traveling from shuttered factories and struggling small towns to the corridors of power and wealth to weave together interviews, history and analysis; it shows how economic dislocation, cultural resentment, racial anxieties, media amplification and elite neglect combined to produce a combustible political energy, offering both compassionate portraits of people left behind and a critique of the structural forces and narratives that made their rage politically potent.

Mike Sielski traces the history of the slam dunk and its influence on basketball and American social change. He shows how the dunk helped shift the sport from white control to a Black man's game and became an expression of Black culture during the civil rights era. After a nearly decade-long college ban the dunk reemerged through stars from Julius Erving to Michael Jordan and helped grow the NBA into a global league.

Jeff Pearlman offers a detailed retelling of Tupac Shakur's life, examining the man behind the public myth and the enduring questions around his murder. The book reconstructs West Coast hip hop, goes inside Death Row Records and the sets of Juice and Poetic Justice, and uses nearly seven hundred interviews and previously unpublished material to present a layered portrait of a complicated, elusive figure.

False Dawn examines the U.S. recovery from the Great Depression, arguing that many New Deal policies unintentionally prolonged high unemployment. Drawing on contemporary sources and economic-historical research, Selgin separates the New Deal’s missteps from effective measures and traces how the country ultimately overcame mass unemployment, offering lessons for future recessions.

A narrative history of the American West that traces the period from the mid‑18th to the late‑19th century. Using seven central figures—including Daniel Boone, Sitting Bull, and Buffalo Bill—the book examines how expansion shaped lives, cultures, and the landscape, showing both acts of boldness and the human and environmental costs of frontier growth.

Max is thirty and restless, carrying years of dysphoria and dissatisfaction. After a New Year’s Eve fall she tries pursuing a conventional relationship with Vincent, but his family expectations and a resurfacing past force both of them to confront identity, forgiveness, and how much the past shapes who we become. The novel explores trans identity, family pressure, race, and the work of making — or remaking — a life together.

Positive Obsession is a cultural biography of Octavia Butler that situates her life and work within the social and political movements of her time—Civil Rights, Black Power, women’s liberation, queer rights, and the economic shifts of the late twentieth century. Susana M. Morris explores how those contexts shaped Butler’s speculative fiction and its recurring concerns: the rise and fall of American power, systems of hierarchy and violence, climate crisis, and alternatives to conventional religion and family, often centering Black women as complex, driven protagonists. The book also examines Butler’s compulsive need to write and how that determination shaped her career and ideas.

The Gales of November tells the story of the 1975 sinking of the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior. Using more than 100 interviews with families, friends, and former crewmates, John U. Bacon situates the disaster within the importance of Great Lakes shipping, describes the lives of the sailors, and chronicles the emotional aftermath for those left behind, offering a concise, spoiler-free narrative of the tragedy and its legacy.

Tigers Between Empires tells the story of efforts to study and protect the Amur (Siberian) tiger in Northeast Asia. After the Soviet Union’s collapse, increased poaching and logging pushed the population to the brink, prompting an international team to form the Siberian Tiger Project and spend decades capturing, tracking, and observing tigers to learn about their behavior and territory. The book follows both researchers and tigers across changing forests and political landscapes, showing how human history and activity have shaped the species and its conservation.

At 55, a renowned intellectual and twice-married woman stages a modern swayamvar—inviting men to compete for her attention—which ignites gossip and scandal in her American town. The novel follows her fierce desire, the realities of aging and disability, and her defiance of social expectations as she navigates public scrutiny and personal longing.

Ten-year-old Vera Bradford-Shmulkin narrates a tender, often funny portrait of her mixed-heritage family as they cope with personal strains and a country in flux. Observant and hopeful, Vera wants a friend at school, for her parents to stay together, and to meet her birth mother, while her cash-strapped father, overburdened mother, and confident older brother navigate shifting loyalties and identities. Told through Vera’s clear perspective, the novel examines family, belonging, and the search for stability.

At the turn of the 21st century in Tanzania, three young people—Karim, Fauzia and Badar—come of age as tourism, technology and new opportunities begin to reshape their quiet town. Their intersecting stories follow ambition, the desire for escape, and uncertain prospects as each must decide how to take control of their future.

In an alternate 1979 England shaped by a different outcome to WWII, 13-year-old triplets Vincent, Lawrence and William are the last boys left at the Captain Scott Home for Boys, where they must take medicine to protect them from a mysterious illness. Nearby, 13-year-old Nancy lives under strict, isolated care. When the children’s lives begin to intersect, hidden facts about the boys’ origins emerge and they must find a way to escape and survive.

Bad Bad Girl follows Loo Shu-hsin (Aggie), born into a wealthy Shanghai family in 1925, whose rebelliousness and unusual education lead her to leave for America in 1947. In Manhattan she builds a life—marriage, a child, and a new home—but faces cultural conflict, loneliness, and a marriage that strains under exile and differing expectations. The novel traces the long, complicated bond between mother and daughter as they confront identity, ambition, love, and misunderstanding across continents and generations.

Investigative reporter Seth Harp examines a string of unexplained deaths and overdoses at Fort Bragg, centering on two 2020 murders that point to drug trafficking and corruption involving special operations personnel. Based on interviews, trial records, and police files, the book traces networks of drug smuggling, institutional failures, and attempts to hide wrongdoing at the military base. It is a reported account of crime, narcotics, and the consequences of secrecy within an elite military community.