A collection of intimate, conversational poems that follow a speaker from their twenties into their thirties, moving between cities and rural towns while examining patriotism, identity, family history, sex, race, womanhood, addiction and sobriety, consumerism, and pop culture. Personal anecdotes and observations — including a memory of a grandmother who left Virginia and settled in Connecticut — are used to explore the performed self and small, telling moments of everyday life.

Ocean of Clouds is a collection of long-lined poems that meditate on coastlines, tidepools, skylines, and ancestral memory. Through vivid seaside imagery and quiet everyday moments—waiting for a ferry, listening to records, watching a child in sunlight—Garrett Hongo explores perception, gratitude, and the effort to keep memories alive without revealing narrative details or plot.

The Boys in the Light follows two parallel stories: Eddie Willner, a Jewish teenager forced into Nazi concentration camps, and D Company, a unit of U.S. tank soldiers who are transformed by combat. The narrative tracks Eddie’s struggle to survive Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the American soldiers’ journey from ordinary young men to battle-hardened troops. Their paths converge when the unit encounters two emaciated, tattooed boys, offering a powerful, spoiler-free exploration of survival, courage, and the human cost of war.

Samantha Mackey, an outsider in a competitive MFA program, becomes fascinated and unnerved by a clique of eerily charming classmates who call each other Bunny. When she is invited into their secretive Smut Salon and joins their off-campus Workshop, Samantha is drawn deeper into a surreal, ritualistic world where the lines between imagination and reality begin to blur. The novel follows her tangled relationships and the strange, dark power of belonging, creativity, and desire.

In 1953 London, police uncover multiple bodies hidden at 10 Rillington Place, prompting a hunt for tenant Reg Christie and renewed questions about an earlier murder conviction. Kate Summerscale reconstructs the investigation, the lives of the victims, and the media frenzy that surrounded the case to examine how the killings and a possible miscarriage of justice unfolded.

Peter Beinart argues that the experience of the Gaza war requires a fundamental rethinking of Jewish identity and communal narratives. He urges moving away from a dominant story of persecution toward a vision grounded in equality, shared security for Jews and Palestinians, and a moral reconstruction informed by history and political analysis. The book offers a concise, argument-driven case for redefining what it means to be Jewish in light of recent events.

Aymar Castle has been under siege and its people are starving—until mysterious, godlike visitors arrive, healing the sick and replenishing stores in exchange for worship. Three women—a battle-hardened hero, a troubled ex-nun who practices dangerous magic, and a serving girl with a secret—must navigate the visitors’ intoxicating influence, shifting loyalties, and the violence of their shared pasts as the castle unravels into ecstatic, dangerous madness. To survive, they will have to confront the power at work in the walls and the truths between them.

When a professor named Cristina Rivera Garza stumbles on a man’s corpse marked by a cryptic message in coral nail polish, she becomes the key informant in a case led by a detective obsessed with poetry. As more bodies appear across the city, the investigation moves through classrooms, poetry, and art in a dreamlike narrative that probes gendered violence, desire, and identity without revealing the mystery’s outcome.

A woman confined to a secretive religious order writes her life from a cell, labeled an “unworthy” while dreaming of joining the Enlightened at the convent’s center. Outside, a collapsed world of flooded cities and lawless survivors presses at the walls; when a new arrival joins the ranks of the unworthy, the narrator’s buried past and the true nature of the sisterhood begin to unravel, forcing her to confront belief, power, and survival.

Fifteen-year-old Fern is sent to the Wellwood Home in 1970 Florida, a secretive institution where unmarried pregnant girls are controlled and isolated. There she bonds with other residents and, after a librarian gives her an old book on witchcraft, encounters a new kind of power — one that forces them to reckon with secrecy, control, and the costs of taking agency back.

Set on the twin planets Werel and Yeowe, Four Ways to Forgiveness is four interconnected novellas about slavery, colonialism, and the struggle for freedom. Through the lives of a disgraced revolutionary (Abberkam), a young outsider (Solly), a proud soldier (Teyeo), and an Ekumen historian in exile (Havzhiva), the stories examine how duty, loyalty, and forgiveness shape individuals and societies in a richly imagined world.

A concise biography of Earl Weaver, who managed the Baltimore Orioles from 1968–1982 and helped reshape modern baseball. The book describes his early use of data and tools—emphasizing on-base percentage, defense, strike-throwing, radar technology, and strategic position changes like moving Cal Ripken Jr. to shortstop—and shows how his fiery, theatrical personality and contentious relationships with umpires and players combined with tactical innovation to produce sustained team success.

Ember is a tiny dragon who’d rather bake and snack than hoard gold. When he befriends a baker, he discovers friendship, belonging, and the joy of sharing in this warm, humorous picture book.

Arthur Oakes, an outsider with a troubled family, is drawn into a desperate plan when a single act of courage puts his incarcerated mother at risk. He and five friends steal a rare, cursed book and attempt an arcane ritual to summon the dragon-demon King Sorrow as vengeance against those who torment them. Set between 1980s Midwest America and modern England, the novel follows the six damaged friends as their pact with a dangerous supernatural force leads to unforeseen and escalating consequences.

Wren Darlington, a powerful psychic Mod hiding from those who would kill her kind, is captured and forced into Silver Block, an elite enemy training program. Forced to conceal her abilities while plotting from within, she must navigate deadly training, shifting loyalties, and a fraught relationship with her commanding officer, Cross Redden. As tensions escalate, Wren has to decide how far she’ll go to survive and what she’s willing to sacrifice to protect others.

On the ninth floor’s Faction Wars, nine armies led by powerful aliens battle to seize a castle in a winner-take-all contest where death may be permanent. As the game’s AI falters, Carl, Donut, Katia and other crawlers join the fray, and formerly disposable NPCs become a self-aware tenth faction. With only one of Donut or Katia allowed to leave the level, the group must form alliances and rely on veteran help to survive.

Cora Zeng cleans crime scenes in Chinatown while trying to cope with the trauma of seeing her sister pushed in front of a train and the killer’s whispered words, “bat eater.” As the murderer remains at large, Cora grows increasingly numb and haunted: bat carcasses start appearing at clean-up sites and the recent victims are all East Asian women. Between grief, cultural rituals like the Hungry Ghost Festival, and signs of something sinister, Cora must confront the dread she has been avoiding.

In an imaginative re-telling, Harriet Tubman returns in an age of miracles and asks a former hip‑hop producer, Darnell Williams, to help her create a musical about her life. Over the course of one week they work to craft a show that confronts their pasts and explores themes of freedom, love, and music.

Demeter is an interstellar transport ship whose human passengers start dying under strange, supernatural circumstances. To survive and protect those onboard, the ship and its crew—an unlikely mix including a werewolf, an engineer reanimated from the dead, an ancient pharaoh, a vampire, and a swarm of spider drones—must confront a centuries-old vampire while the story examines identity, loyalty, and what it means to be labeled a monster.

Thirty-five-year-old Sadie Wells leaves her predictable life to join a Camino de Santiago tour in Portugal, where a chance meeting with fellow traveler Mal sparks a deep connection. As they walk together through the landscape and through personal challenges—Sadie exploring newly awakened feelings, Mal facing loss and change—their bond grows and both must decide what kind of life they want after the pilgrimage. A tender, character-driven romance about identity, grief, and the courage to start over.

A gifted but reckless island boy is apprenticed as a wizard, and after a prideful spell unleashes a shadow that follows him across the archipelago, he must undertake a perilous journey to pursue and confront it; through trials, solitude, and the learning of true names and balance, he grows from brash youth into a wiser, accountable sorcerer.

A concise, illustrated history of trans people and ideas from ancient times to today. The book combines profiles of historical figures with discussions of social roles, the spread of European gender concepts, the development of sexology, and the interplay of acceptance and backlash. Illustrated interviews and accounts highlight the diversity of contemporary trans experiences without revealing plot details.

Chicky Diaz is the longtime doorman at the Bohemia, a ritzy Manhattan apartment building. On a single volatile night—set against protests after a police shooting—Chicky is drawn into a tense, criminal situation that entangles residents such as Emily Longworth and Julian Sonnenberg. The novel follows how class, privilege, and personal secrets collide as the city teeters toward violence, forcing characters to make dangerous choices.

Two Jewish survivors of Nazi medical experiments reunite decades later to track the SS officer who tormented them. Their pursuit spans postwar Europe and Cold War-era Central America, exploring questions of justice, revenge, trauma, and the lasting echoes of history.

Lord Christopher Eden, a reclusive trans gentleman who prefers the company of his cook and butler, must find a wife by the end of the Season to keep his inheritance. He moves to London and hires a traditional valet, James Harding; what begins as a prickly working relationship gradually deepens into a slow-burn, complicated attraction as both men guard secrets. Set in the Regency era, the novel combines dry wit, social maneuvering, and a thoughtful exploration of identity and relationships.

Thirty years after John Lo, the only Asian American partner at a prominent New York law firm, was tried and acquitted for the murder of a colleague, his adult children Brennan and Hunter reunite to reinvestigate the case as their family unravels. Told in alternating timelines between John’s downfall and his children’s present-day probe, Hollow Spaces explores race in corporate America, filial loyalty, ambition, and the long consequences of a sensational trial.

Set in 19th-century La Réunion, the novel follows Edmond Albius, a young Creole boy born into slavery who, after being raised by a local botanist, devises a method of hand-pollinating orchids that changes vanilla cultivation. It traces his resilience and ingenuity amid the hardships of colonial society and how one discovery reshaped lives and economies.

A concise history tracing how personal choice came to define modern freedom. Rosenfeld follows developments from the seventeenth century to the present — from shopping and religious toleration to romantic, political, and reproductive choices — highlights the role of women in expanding options, and examines the social and psychological costs of living with ever more possibilities.

The Arrogant Ape challenges the idea of human exceptionalism, arguing it’s a cultural belief rather than a biological fact. Drawing on primatology and research across animals, plants, and fungi, Christine E. Webb highlights the social, emotional, and cognitive complexity of other species, critiques biases in scientific study, and suggests that recognizing nonhuman lives on their own terms can deepen our sense of belonging and promote more sustainable ways of living.

Rob Dunn explores the history and importance of mutualisms—cooperative relationships between species—using the African honeyguide’s partnership with people as a starting point. He shows how cooperation, from microbes to animals, has shaped evolution and challenges the idea that nature is only competitive. The book invites readers to rethink human connections with other species and imagine a more interconnected future.

The Containment examines Detroit’s effort to desegregate schools in the 1960s–70s, following activists, judges, and political leaders who pursued a regional plan to integrate city and suburban districts. The book centers on the legal battle culminating in the 1974 Milliken v. Bradley decision, which prevented suburbs from being included in integration remedies and helped entrench enduring educational and racial inequalities. Through portraits of key figures and moments, it explains how legal and political choices shaped the city’s fate.

Every Day Is Sunday traces how Roger Goodell and owners Jerry Jones and Robert Kraft transformed the NFL over three decades into a dominant cultural and financial force. Ken Belson draws on reporting and insider accounts to show how their decisions—about leadership, stadiums, team moves, and the league’s embrace of sports betting—reshaped the business and public profile of professional football.

In 1938, Jewish families in Vienna placed adverts offering their children to readers of the Manchester Guardian; one ad ultimately saved the author’s father. Years later, Guardian journalist Julian Borger finds that advert and reconstructs the lives of the children named and their families, tracing journeys from Vienna to Shanghai, Britain, Holland, France and the United States. The book is a personal memoir that explores family secrets, survival, trauma and acts of kindness amid the upheaval of war.

Brandon M. Terry reexamines how the civil rights movement is told, arguing that both triumphant “arc of justice” narratives and skeptical Afropessimist accounts are incomplete. Using a theory of interpretation, he contrasts these dominant modes and proposes a tragic framing that acknowledges enduring injustice while preserving a realistic, politically useful hope. The book offers a fresh way to think about past struggles and to guide future efforts for liberation.

A multigenerational family saga about the Seabrooks of New Jersey, who transform from small-scale farmers into a powerful agricultural empire under the autocratic patriarch C.F. Seabrook. John Seabrook traces the family's rise and the hidden personal and business scandals—glamour masking secrecy, betrayal, and eventual collapse—while examining questions of class, power, and legacy.

John Birdsall traces how queer people and culture have shaped modern food in America and Europe, moving through kitchens, restaurants, parties, and private meals. Through profiles of figures like James Baldwin, Alice B. Toklas, Truman Capote, and others, he shows how dishes, dining practices, and the contexts of meals became expressions of queer identity. The book argues that food — from recipes to shared tables — functions as a language of modern queerness.

Collected Poems gathers Wendy Cope’s work across her career, bringing together well-known and previously uncollected pieces. With wit, formal skill and accessible language, the poems explore everyday human experiences—love, heartbreak, disappointment and small moments of joy—often with playful forms and clear emotional insight. This edition also includes Nick Garland’s illustrations for “The River Girl.”

A concise biography of Henry Christophe—from his birth into slavery to his rise as a central figure in Haiti’s revolution. The book follows his military and political career, shifting alliances and rivalries, and his establishment of a northern kingdom, while exploring the tensions of leadership, loyalty, and nation‑building in the turbulent years after independence.

A collection of over thirty short stories by Mavis Gallant that showcases her precise prose and sharp eye for human relationships. The pieces vary in tone from ironic to melancholic and often explore themes of exile, family, and moral ambiguity. Included are stories such as "The Accident," "His Mother," "An Autobiography," and "Dedé."

Elaine Pagels explores how the life of Jesus was remembered and interpreted by his earliest followers. Drawing on the gospels, she treats questions about the virgin birth, miracles, and resurrection as historical and interpretive puzzles, and shows how the stories and explanations shaped early Christian belief and helped the movement spread.

Vikram Shastri is a high-achieving teen whose life changes when he joins his high school football team. After a late-night party leaves a classmate seriously injured, Vikram and teammates Diego and MJ are suspended and the search for what happened pulls their families’ hidden struggles and secrets into the open. A tense, character-driven story about race, class, and privilege.

Long Distance is a short story collection by Ayşegül Savaş that explores distance and intimacy in an age of constant connection. The linked stories follow expatriates, lovers, and friends — in places like Rome and in transit — as they try to remake their lives while remaining tied to what they left behind.

When a storm traps Casey at her remote cabin, she discovers a young, bloodied stranger hiding outside with a knife. As unsettling discoveries and rising tension push both women toward a dangerous confrontation, Casey must decide who to trust and how far she’ll go to survive.

Forest Euphoria, by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian, blends memoir and natural history as the author traces how childhood explorations of wetlands shaped her identities as a queer, neurodivergent scientist. Through encounters with fungi, amphibians, and other overlooked organisms, she explores the diversity and fluidity of sex, gender, and belonging in nature, offering a lyrical, curiosity-driven reflection on connection to the living world.

Fifteen-year-old Nicholas begins having sudden panic attacks and unsettling moments of dissociation that lead him to wonder whether something like the Greek god Pan could be inside him. Alongside his friends Ty and Sarah, he searches for meaning in books, music, and the reckless rituals at a local party house, forcing him to confront anxiety, identity, and the strange workings of consciousness.

A compact, spoiler‑free biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski — the Polish‑born scholar who served as President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor and became a central architect of American Cold War strategy. The book follows his life from émigré roots through his intellectual battles, key alliances, and policy choices, and shows how his ideas and personality shaped U.S. foreign policy during the late twentieth century.

Rachel Kolb, born profoundly deaf, blends memoir and cultural reflection to examine how language shapes identity and connection. She recounts learning speech, lipreading, and using a cochlear implant while embracing ASL and written English, and explores Deaf culture, accessibility, and the everyday negotiations between deaf and hearing worlds.

Blank Space examines why popular culture over the past 25 years has trended toward safe, formulaic entertainment—reboots, viral fads, and profit-driven aesthetics—rather than bold artistic risk. W. David Marx traces how economic incentives, technology, and shifting social attitudes (from influencer culture and K-pop to blockbuster franchises, industry plants, nepo babies, and AI art) reshaped music, film, fashion, and street culture. He argues this has created a “blank space” where reinvention is rare and suggests ways to refocus on creativity, community, and values beyond pure profit.

Matthew Specktor uses his childhood in a Hollywood household and his later work as a studio executive and screenwriter to trace how the American film industry changed over the past seventy‑five years. Mixing memoir and cultural history, he interweaves family stories with episodes involving agents, studio heads, artists, unions, and corporations to show how Hollywood shifted from a cultural center to a global business and how that shift intensified tensions between art, labor, and capital.

The Mission traces the CIA’s evolution from post–Cold War decline through the shock of 9/11 and the agency’s shift toward paramilitary operations, detention, and drone strikes. It describes the consequences of that shift—operational losses, cyber and counterintelligence setbacks—and the subsequent effort to rebuild traditional espionage capabilities to confront rivals such as Russia, China, and Iran while operating under intense political pressure.

After a mysterious illness leaves him isolated and unable to read or write, Brian Buckbee rescues an injured pigeon he names Two‑Step. Tending injured birds transforms his life and forms an unexpected bond that helps him confront grief, chronic illness, and the end of his former adventures. Dictated to editor Carol Ann Fitzgerald, the memoir is a quiet, hopeful meditation on connection, care, and the small wonders of the natural world.

A collection of nine short stories set in Minnesota, New Mexico, and California that follows people who have left their places of origin and wrestle with desire, identity, family obligations, and the pressure to make others happy. The stories are character-focused and spare in tone, exploring intimate forms of loss and violence as individuals try—and sometimes fail—to reconcile their pasts with their present lives.

Make Your Way Home is a collection of eleven short stories set across the American South that follows Black men and women as they navigate family legacies, longing, and the meaning of home. From Florida marshes to North Carolina mountains and Southern cities, the stories explore love, belonging, and how past histories shape present choices, told with careful attention to place and intimate detail.

Nova Scotia House follows Johnny Grant as he reflects on his decades-long relationship with Jerry Field, who was nearly thirty years his senior. Living together in Jerry’s house in Nova Scotia, they explored experimental ways of loving, sex, and community in the years before the AIDS crisis. Now, facing grief and difficult choices, Johnny revisits those memories and tries to preserve the relationships and practices that shaped their lives.

Set in Chernihiv, Ukraine, the novel follows twelve-year-old Artem as he helps on his grandfather’s sunflower farm, sketches in a treasured notebook, and quietly navigates emerging romantic feelings for his best friend Viktor. When war suddenly erupts and shatters his ordinary life, Artem and his younger brother Yuri flee their home and travel across Ukraine hoping to reunite with their father. The story is a coming-of-age exploration of identity, brotherhood, and survival amid upheaval.

Beth has built a quiet life with her husband Frank, but when Gabriel—the first love she never forgot—returns to their village with his young son, old feelings and buried secrets resurface. A violent incident involving Gabriel’s dog pulls Beth back into a past she thought she’d left behind, and as tensions rise in the community she must face choices that put her marriage and future at risk. The novel shifts between past and present to explore love, loss, and the consequences of long-hidden truths.

Gabrielle Hamilton’s Next of Kin is a candid memoir about the unraveling of her unconventional family. Confronting long-standing estrangement and personal loss while raising her own children, she pieces together the habits, beliefs, and silences that shaped them and discovers a difficult, hard-won clarity about who they were.

Sister, Sinner traces the life of Aimee Semple McPherson, a charismatic 1920s evangelist whose mysterious disappearance and dramatic reappearance sparked a national media frenzy. The book follows her rise through spectacle, radio, and a sprawling Los Angeles church, and examines the scandals, legal battles, and cultural forces that shaped early American popular religion and Hollywood.

Cécé follows a young woman in a Haitian cité who documents daily life and violence through striking photographs she posts online. Working as a sex worker and living under the control of local gangs, she uses images, friendships, and small acts of defiance to claim agency and survive. The novel is an intimate, unflinching portrait of resilience amid poverty and unrest.

A compact, authoritative collegiate dictionary providing clear definitions, pronunciations, etymologies, usage notes, variant spellings, and illustrative examples; updated to include contemporary vocabulary and new entries, it serves as a practical reference for students, writers, and general readers seeking concise, reliable guidance on modern American English usage.

In late-1980s Melbourne, a first-generation Sri Lankan woman looks back on her graduate-student years as she copes with a painful breakup and a new attraction to Kit, who is in a complicated relationship with Olivia. Wrestling with jealousy, feminist principles and her admiration for Virginia Woolf, she confronts how personal desires can conflict with political and moral beliefs. The novel blends fiction and essay to quietly explore identity, longing and ethical ambiguity.

Set in a small Irish town recovering from economic collapse, this novel follows twenty-one voices as they navigate a fragile peace. As the town looks ahead, new opportunities and old wounds collide when an unsettling threat begins to unsettle the community, drawing younger people toward risky choices and forcing older generations to respond. Lyrical and character-driven, the book explores belonging, consequence, and the ties that hold a place together.

Florence, 1557 : le peintre Pontormo est retrouvé assassiné près des fresques sur lesquelles il travaillait. Vasari, chargé de l'enquête par le duc, mène une correspondance avec un Michel‑Ange exilé à Rome pour démêler indices artistiques et jeux de pouvoir. Entre ateliers, couvents et cours princières, rivalités et secrets rendent chaque interlocuteur suspect — un polar historique épistolaire mêlant art, politique et suspicion, sans dévoiler la vérité finale.

On a Chicago university campus, a toddler begins to emit a mysterious light called the nimbus. The unexplained phenomenon, visible to some but not others, upends the lives of his parents—Adrian, a divinity school professor, and Renata—and draws in Adrian’s graduate student Paul Harkin and a former alumnus, Warren Kayita. As attention on the child grows, the characters are forced to confront questions of faith, family, ambition, and the search for meaning.

Margaret, a newly divorced mother, returns to the big house where she was raised and brings her young daughters back into the landscape of her childhood. As she juggles co-parenting and a new relationship, old memories and hidden family secrets begin to surface, forcing her to confront how the past shapes the present. The novel quietly explores motherhood, family dynamics, and the lasting effects of childhood.

Rebecca Romney explores the women writers who influenced Jane Austen—figures like Frances Burney, Ann Radcliffe, Elizabeth Inchbald, Maria Edgeworth, and others—tracing their impact on Austen’s work and asking why their books fell out of favor. Through personal reading, searches for rare editions, and close connections between these authors’ novels and Austen’s, she reconstructs the bookshelf that shaped Austen and invites readers to rediscover overlooked women writers and reconsider how the literary canon is formed.

A concise essay collection in which cultural critic Tre Johnson explores how Black creativity and everyday innovation have shaped American life. Mixing personal memoir, pop culture, and historical observation, Johnson highlights examples—from 1990s airbrush tees to family trips and comedians like Dick Gregory—to argue that ordinary practices reveal extraordinary resourcefulness and cultural influence.

Leo Schofield has spent decades behind bars for the 1987 murder of his wife, a crime he insists he did not commit. Years later, fingerprints from the scene were linked to another local man who has confessed to multiple killings, leaving both men claiming the truth while authorities remain unconvinced. The book examines the competing accounts, physical evidence, and the workings of the criminal-justice system in Polk County, Florida, without revealing the case’s final outcome.

Fear No Pharaoh examines how American Jews confronted slavery and the Civil War through the lives of six figures—Judah P. Benjamin, Morris Raphall, Isaac Mayer Wise, David Einhorn, August Bondi, and Ernestine Rose. Drawing on contemporary sources, Richard Kreitner explores competing Jewish responses—biblical defenses of slavery, calls for caution to protect communities, and fierce abolitionism—and shows how those debates shaped Jewish identity and political choices in nineteenth‑century America.

Molly Jong‑Fast recounts growing up as the daughter of author Erica Jong, navigating a childhood shaped by public fame, emotional distance, and a complicated mother–daughter bond. Blending sharp humor and candid reflection, the memoir explores how that relationship influenced her identity and how she comes to terms with love, loss, and family.

A concise biography of Charlotte Brontë: she survives family tragedy, remakes herself as a novelist and public figure, and dies leaving unresolved questions. Her friend Elizabeth Gaskell investigates and uncovers personal secrets, family conflicts, and literary rivalries that helped shape the Brontë legend.

Emily Feng investigates how the Chinese state defines and enforces national identity. Through portraits of Uyghurs, an Inner Mongolian teacher, a mainland human-rights lawyer and others, the book shows how language, ethnicity, religion and political dissent are policed and how people resist and survive under state pressure.

Libraries of the Mind argues that our minds function like libraries: collections of texts, memories, and references that shape how we read and understand literature. William Marx examines how these invisible libraries are formed, considers the “dark matter” of lost or fragmentary works, and urges us to broaden our mental shelves by recovering missing texts and cultivating an attitude that respects diversity and otherness in reading.

Make It Ours traces the life and influence of Virgil Abloh, following his unconventional path from streetwear and design to becoming menswear artistic director at Louis Vuitton. Robin Givhan examines how Abloh and his peers reshaped ideas about fashion, race, luxury, and taste, and how a new generation blurred the boundaries between high fashion and street culture.

A concise, chronological history tracing five centuries of Mexico’s cultural, political, and economic change. It follows first contacts and conquest, the demographic collapse and cultural recombination that followed, the global impact of silver, struggles for independence and 19th‑century conflict, and the revolutions, social reforms, and contemporary challenges—such as organized violence and migration—that have shaped modern Mexican institutions and identity.

A Ukrainian reporter and novelist who becomes a soldier after the 2022 invasion examines how war upends personal beliefs, family life, and everyday routines. In three parts, he reflects on the first days of the conflict, the experiences of ordinary civilians, and the moral questions around who fights and why. The book is a spare, personal account of how war reshapes identity, duty, and relationships without revealing operational details or outcomes.

In Nazi-occupied Paris, two unlikely women run a secret escape line that helps Allied servicemen slip past checkpoints and out of danger. After their arrest by the Gestapo, the book pieces together their actions and the complex personal and moral consequences that followed, drawing on archival records and wartime letters to tell a tense, character-driven story of courage and secrecy.

When journalist Amanda Hess becomes pregnant, a routine ultrasound and her online searches pull her into the fraught landscape of digital parenting. She examines how apps, prenatal tests, social media groups, and algorithmic attention amplify fear, judgment, and choices, and connects those experiences to longer histories like eugenics and surveillance. The book is a personal, clear-eyed look at how the internet reshapes pregnancy and early parenthood.

They Poisoned the World investigates how “forever chemicals” (PFAS) came to contaminate drinking water across the United States. Starting with a 2014 discovery of toxic levels in Hoosick Falls, New York, Mariah Blake traces the chemicals’ history—from wartime research to decades of industry knowledge and internal testing linking PFAS to health problems—and examines how regulatory failures allowed widespread exposure. The book combines document-based investigative reporting with the story of local residents who fought to reveal the contamination and seek accountability.

A concise biography of Peter Matthiessen that follows his life as a novelist, naturalist, and Zen teacher. It covers his early literary work (including cofounding The Paris Review), adventurous field expeditions—from the Amazon and New Guinea to the Himalayas—his influential nature writing and advocacy on environmental and Native American issues, and his lifelong spiritual search, presented without revealing major personal spoilers.

New Orleans, 1866: siblings Coleman and June are legally free but still hunted by the past after June is taken to Mexico by their former master. Years later Coleman follows a summons south and, joined by an unlikely companion, crosses the Mexican desert in search of his sister while fleeing men who would return them to bondage. Their separate journeys test their resilience and force them to reckon with what freedom really means.

Arthur Zinn, a New Age spiritual writer, falls in love with a librarian and is forced to confront his beliefs when a sudden climate disaster puts her life at risk. A mysterious event following his desperate prayers upends his assumptions about God, desire, and the natural world. The novel examines ecology, mortality, art, faith, and the messy realities of intimate relationships.

Joan Liang emigrates from Taiwan to California, endures a sudden first marriage breakdown, and later marries again and raises children. Searching for lasting fulfillment, she opens the Satisfaction Café — a small place where strangers come to talk and be heard — and through that venture reshapes her life and creates a new kind of legacy.

During a six-week seaside holiday after her family’s move to Bath, Jane Austen savors sea bathing and the company of her sister Cassandra and friend Martha while new arrivals stir curiosity and unrest. As her brother Frank returns from naval service and figures like Captain Parker and the reserved lawyer Samuel Rose appear, Jane becomes drawn into questions about love, loyalty and her own feelings while also assisting Reverend Swete with his granddaughter’s arrival from the West Indies.

Eliot and Claire have been married for nearly forty years. After years of Claire’s cancer, as her life nears its end she makes an unexpected request that forces Eliot to reevaluate their marriage, his role as caregiver, and who they are apart and together. The novel follows his emotional reckoning with love, identity, and the difficult choices that surface at the end of life.

In januari 1597 sterft op Nova Zembla een ongedentificeerde bemanningsman. Vierhonderdvijfentwintig jaar later ontdooit de permafrost en hij ontwaakt uit zijn ijsgraf. Als dichter die meevoer op de expeditie van Willem Barentsz krijgt hij nu de kans zijn verhaal te doen. Het boek verweeft historische gebeurtenissen met fictie en sprookjesachtige elementen, zonder de plot te verklappen.

In a fading Italian village, newly installed Mayor Delizia Miccuci presides over shuttered businesses, disgraced townsfolk, and a bar where locals nurse old grievances. When truffle hunter Giovanni Scarpazza discovers an enormous, mysteriously potent truffle in the nearby woods, the발 find threatens to upend the community’s fortunes and relationships—forcing residents to reckon with hope, greed, and what it means to save a place they call home.

A provocative, wide-ranging collection of essays, interviews and firsthand reflections that captures the restless energy of contemporary and experimental jazz, tracing its collisions with punk, free improvisation and global music traditions. Contributors move between intimate performance recollections, critical analysis and playful manifestos to map how improvisation, DIY ethics and cultural politics reshape sound and community. The result is an urgent, impressionistic portrait of a music in flux — committed to risk, hybridity and radical listening.

Set across Chennai, Bombay, and an English college, the novel follows two quarrelsome elderly men confronting private losses amid wider national upheaval, a magical musician in an unhappy marriage to a multibillionaire, and an undead academic bent on settling old scores. Through linked, often fantastical episodes, it examines aging, memory, and the difficulty of saying goodbye to the places and people that shape a life.

Mimi Pond’s Do Admit examines the lives of the six Mitford sisters—Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica, and Deborah—who were raised in an aristocratic but financially strained English household and later married into influential and often polarizing social and political circles. Told through Pond’s satirical cartoons and narrative, the book traces their family dynamics, social ambitions, and the ways their personal choices intersected with 20th-century history, without revealing key plot details.

Kathy Burke traces her journey from a childhood in Islington to discovering the Anna Scher Theatre and forging a career as an actress and writer. The memoir offers candid, often funny reflections on her life and the social and cultural forces that shaped her.

A short memoir about a writer who, after her marriage ends, responds to a typo—“clam down”—by retreating into a shell and rethinking solitude, shame, and connection. Mixing personal history with reflections on art, literature, and natural history, she explores her family’s past, including a father who left to work on a mysterious project called Shell Computing, and uses the clam as a metaphor for the costs and comforts of withdrawing from the world. The book considers what we gain and lose by building protective walls and how we might begin to take them down.

After a sudden diagnosis of a rare, aggressive cancer, Amanda Quaid’s ordinary life — marriage, work, and parenting — is upended. Written as a memoir-in-verse, No Obvious Distress uses candid, inventive poems to make sense of pain, desire, motherhood, and mortality, and to explore how creativity and love persist amid uncertainty.

After a storm, Cora takes her daughter to register the birth of her son. Pressured by her controlling husband to name the child after him, Cora’s last-minute choice sets three different life paths over the next 35 years, each exploring how that single decision reshapes family relationships, the effects of domestic abuse, and the search for autonomy and healing.

A linked collection of stories set in contemporary China that blend gritty realism with myth: a provincial ambulance searching for a hospital at night, a struggling actor who takes on the role of a hitman on a sweltering rooftop, and a famed knife fighter now working on a northern factory floor. Darkly humorous, noir-tinged, and occasionally magical, the tales illuminate ordinary lives shaped by violence, history, and desire.

A short collection of Anne Enright’s essays spanning three decades, blending personal memoir, cultural observation and literary criticism. Enright moves between places and family history to consider language, womanhood and the craft of fiction, offering clear, intimate reflections on writers and everyday life.