Nicola Sturgeon traces her journey from a shy child in Ayrshire to Scotland’s first female and longest-serving First Minister, offering a personal, in-the-room account of her political life. She reflects on key events she experienced firsthand, including the creation of the Scottish Parliament, the SNP’s rise to government, the independence referendum, Brexit, and the Covid pandemic.

In this personal memoir, Jacinda Ardern recounts her path from a small New Zealand town to national leadership and describes how her values shaped a people‑centered, empathetic approach to governing. She reflects on leading through major national crises and on balancing public responsibilities with private life, offering practical insights into resilience, conviction, and compassionate leadership.

Sarah Perry chronicles the experience of caring for her father-in-law after a cancer diagnosis, nursing him at home with her husband and supporting him through the final stages of life. The book is an intimate, spare reflection on family, caregiving, and what it means to accompany someone as they near the end.

A wide-ranging cultural history that traces the symbolic, scientific and practical roles of blood across human societies, examining how it has figured in myth and ritual, medicine and politics, food and identity; the book mixes historical research, scientific explanation and vivid storytelling to show how attitudes toward blood reflect changing beliefs about the body, community and power.

A concise art-historical study of the Dutch painter that traces his life, the little we know of his biography, and the distinctive qualities of his work—meticulous composition, delicate handling of light and colour, and intimate domestic subjects—while examining techniques, contemporary context and the mysteries surrounding his small oeuvre and enduring influence on later perceptions of seventeenth-century Dutch painting.

A concise biography that follows her journey from childhood in New Zealand to her expatriate life in Europe, exploring the personal relationships, artistic struggles and tuberculosis that shaped her brief but influential career; it situates her modernist innovations in the short story—impressionistic detail, psychological insight and subtle social critique—within the context of her friendships, love affairs and public reception, and offers an assessment of her literary legacy and continuing influence on 20th-century fiction.

A vivid biography that reveals how an internationally famous Black entertainer used her celebrity, charm, and international contacts as a cover for clandestine work during World War II, gathering intelligence, smuggling information and aiding the Allied cause; the narrative places her risky wartime activities alongside her stage career and later political commitments, drawing on archival research to reshape understanding of her life beyond the spotlight.

A concise biography that recovers the life of Rosemary Woodruff Leary, who played a central but often overlooked role in the rise of psychedelic culture. Drawing on interviews, diaries and archival material, the book traces her work with Timothy Leary, her experiments with LSD, and the personal costs she endured while shaping the public story of the movement.

A concise, essayistic portrait that blends biography, close musical readings and cultural criticism to capture the eccentric life, aesthetic provocations and enduring influence of Erik Satie; it traces his sparse, repetitive piano pieces and performance pranks alongside anecdotes of Parisian bohemia, showing how irony, silence and formal minimalism anticipated later avant‑garde movements while complicating received narratives of genius. The prose is digressive and personal, moving between musical analysis, archival detail and reflections on taste, authorship and the making of artistic myth.

Millions of anonymous letters begin arriving worldwide, each opening with "We must confess," exposing dark secrets and triggering chaos after LLIAM, a supercomputer that governed major life decisions, abruptly goes offline. CEO Kaitlan Goss seeks Maud Brookes, an ex-nun who taught LLIAM about humanity, hoping she can help stop the unrest, but when Maud receives a letter implicating Kaitlan the two women are drawn into a dangerous struggle as society teeters on the brink.

Set during the 1939–40 Winter War, the novel follows a small Finnish infantry company—farmers, workers and soldiers—who band together to defend their homeland after the Soviet invasion. Centered on the human costs of combat and the legendary sniper Simo Häyhä, it depicts freezing conditions, scarce equipment, and the quiet determination (sisu) that sustains the men and women on the front.

Lorraine is drawn to Paddy Farrell, a charismatic operator who moves through the dangerous, destabilized world along the border — a place of roadblocks, hijackings and illicit cash. A backstreet bureau launders money for a ragged, unscrupulous crew and corrupt officials blur the lines between law and crime. As Lorraine becomes entangled with Paddy and his associates, she discovers how quickly ordinary choices can pull someone into violence and moral compromise.

A trenchant collection of essays that examines how architecture and urban design shape and reflect political power, arguing that buildings and planning are not neutral aesthetics but active sites of ideological struggle; it surveys modernist and post‑war projects, critiques the commodification and nostalgia that drive contemporary redevelopment and gentrification, and calls for a politically aware approach to the built environment that defends public space and social needs against market forces.

A wide-ranging history and argument that traces how societies have understood, defended and constrained free expression from premodern times to the digital age, showing that appeals to truth-seeking, individual autonomy, democratic self-government and protection from state power have coexisted with repeated efforts to limit speech for reasons of religion, order, reputation, racial violence and security. It examines how changing technologies and institutions—printing, colonial governance, mass media and the internet—reshaped who could speak and who was heard, critiques simplistic marketplace-of-ideas defenses, and carefully weighs harms like incitement, hate and misinformation. The result is a historically informed, pragmatic case for robust free speech protections coupled with accountable, narrowly targeted limits and civic remedies that recognize difficult trade-offs.

At the Inns of Court in early 17th-century London, Bulstrode Whitelocke and Edward (Ned) Hyde form a close friendship rooted in shared hopes to reconcile Crown and Parliament under Charles I. The book follows their ambitions and the political, religious, and personal tensions — plus chance events and judgments — that gradually push them onto opposing sides as the country heads toward civil war. It vividly recreates the period’s atmosphere and shows how national conflict reshaped intimate relationships.

Ash Sarkar argues that culture wars and moral panics about minorities are used to distract and divide the majority, allowing a small economic and media elite—hedge funds, landlords, corporations and powerful press owners—to consolidate power and wealth. The book explains how fear and misinformation obscure shared social and economic interests and outlines why recognizing these manipulations is a first step toward collective solutions.

This book traces the origins, arguments, and activism of the international campaign that demanded monetary recognition for unpaid domestic and care labor, situating the demand within Marxist and feminist critiques of capitalist reproduction; it chronicles grassroots organizing, key campaigns and slogans, internal debates about strategy and ideology, and the movement’s varied impacts across countries while assessing its legacy for later feminist, labor, and social policy struggles around care, wages, and the valuation of domestic work.

Luke Kennard’s The Book of Jonah reimagines the biblical figure as a reluctant, globe‑trotting “prophet” who avoids his calling by taking arts development, PR and consultancy jobs. Blending surreal comedy and picaresque adventure, the book follows his encounters with errant writers, artists and fixers while satirizing the emptiness of the hero’s journey, cuts to arts funding, and contemporary literary culture.

The New Carthaginians is a poetry collection that blends history, myth and memory through three linked figures—a poet, a Black Icarus and a resurrected Jean-Michel Basquiat—moving through an altered timeline. It meditates on flight and falling, art and identity, and uses collage-like lyric sequences to rework familiar symbols and imagine new myths that challenge the othering of Black life.

Southernmost is a collection of sonnets in which Leo Boix moves between his childhood Argentina and a new life in England, exploring memory, queer love, family loss, and the long shadows of colonialism and political violence. Intimate and rooted in Latin American landscapes and folklore, the poems map migration, identity, and desire without revealing specific plot details.

A collection of poems that examines how ideas of value—personal, cultural and economic—play out amid housing precarity, environmental crisis and aging. Drawing on the poet’s rural background, the work links corporate control of land and food to climate-driven change while finding moments of wonder and resilience in nonhuman life—trees, animals and recurring natural details—that suggest ways to endure and renew.

Avidya is a poetry collection that follows a migrant life between Sri Lanka, the UK and the US, blending personal family history with memories of war, displacement and separation. The poems draw on myth, philosophy and spirituality to examine political crises and the ways parents transmit strength and fear to their children, offering sensual, reflective meditations without revealing plot details.

Chaotic Good is a poetry collection that follows a speaker’s reinvention after personal upheaval. Across five sections the poems move between childhood, adolescence, marriage and the aftermath of divorce to explore how identity, desire, power and moral choices are shaped by relationships and circumstance. The tone is intimate and immediate, examining trauma and self-discovery without revealing specific events.

Minx is a lyrical poetry collection that follows an Anglo‑Romani family, focusing on two sisters and their mother as they navigate a vibrant yet precarious world of tradition, music and marginal livelihoods. When the sisters are placed into care and separated, their bond and survival are tested. Using playful, experimental forms, the poems explore belonging, identity and cultural loss without revealing plot specifics.

Nature Matters, curated by Mona Arshi and Karen McCarthy Woolf, is an anthology of nature poetry that centers Black and Asian voices from past and present. It traces historical and contemporary approaches to ecological questions—climate, protest, urban and rural environments, solitude and formal experimentation—offering varied perspectives on how people relate to the natural world.

A poet observing from a shed watches a new cemetery being created on the West Yorkshire moor. The collection uses short, layered poems about everyday details—the cars, the planning, the changing light—to offer quiet, often wry meditations on mortality, memory and a particular sense of place, moving from local scenes to broader reflection without revealing specific events.

A collection of poems by Simon Armitage that reimagines the fragile, ingenious homes of animals—squirrel dreys, beaver lodges, hives and more—inspired by the restored landscape of the Lost Gardens of Heligan. Using vivid imagery, riddle and folklore, the poems blur human and natural boundaries and reflect on the vulnerability of these habitats to environmental threats.

Foretokens is a lyrical collection in which Sarah Howe examines family, memory and belonging. Centered on the story of her mother—found as an abandoned baby in early Communist China and raised by another woman—the poems sift through emigration, language and inherited narratives as the poet, now a mother herself, re-reads and remakes a fragmented past. Intimate and reflective, the book traces what is lost and recovered across generations without revealing specific plot details.

That Broke Into Shining Crystals is a poetry collection that probes trauma, revelation, and survival through a radical queer perspective. In three interlocking sections, Richard Scott uses still-life freezes, a reworking of Andrew Marvell’s language in the poem “Coy,” and recurring crystal and gemstone imagery to explore fracture, agency, and moments of uplift without revealing narrative details.

A boy goes from shop to shop asking for everyday things but keeps being given animals that trail along with him. Playful rhymes and lively illustrations turn the misunderstandings into a funny, read-aloud story with a lighthearted twist at the end.

Since the dawn of time a mythical Great Bear has guarded the oceans and the balance of life. When a single creature upends that balance, the Great Bear must confront the change. Rich, hand-painted illustrations accompany a gentle, hopeful tale about the fragility and resilience of the natural world.

A young girl reflects on belonging to two cultures, tracing how her family’s journey, ancestral traditions, memories of visits home, and everyday experiences shape her identity. Through gentle prose and vivid scenes she discovers how her roots, her parents’ dreams, and the people and books that influenced her come together to make her who she is.

Omnibird invites readers to see birds differently by introducing the idea of the “Omnibird”—the shared features of all birds—and uses 12 common species to explore anatomy, behavior, feathers, eggs, and flight. It’s a short, accessible guide to noticing remarkable details in everyday birds.

A mischievous team of donuts led by Sprinkles plots hilarious schemes for world domination while sticky Jammyboi, fact‑loving Dadnut and Lil’ Timmy, and quirky Spronky add chaos — all while their arch‑nemeses, the bagels, secretly plot against them. A fast, funny, full‑color comic adventure for young readers.

Con is a boy struggling with anger and the fallout after his father leaves — his friendships and school life suffer as a result. When his neighbor Mr Williams invites him to help care for a flock of homing pigeons, Con begins to learn responsibility, trust and hope. As he cares for the birds, he starts to imagine they might help him find the connection he’s lost.

In gothic Temstown, three cousins—Mina, Buffy and Bella—discover they are descendants of Dracula. Guided by an ancient book and a talking raven, they start a vampire healing company that treats rather than hunts vampires, using newfound powers to investigate strange happenings in the town.

Cassia Thorne leads a double life in 19th‑century London—selling ballads by day and spending nights in Fleet Prison. When children begin vanishing from the streets, Cassia teams up with a young pickpocket, Teo, and their friend Felix to investigate, uncovering a sinister conspiracy, strange men in blue coats, and rumors of a beast in the city's deep tunnels. A tense, atmospheric, supernatural mystery set in the underbelly of Victorian London.

Lark flees Northaven with her mother in search of sanctuary, while Nightingale is forced to wield her songlight against her own people. As Piper rises in rank and Rye stumbles upon an airship, a fragile peace starts to unravel.

An illustrated, accessible history of queer activism that traces key moments—from the Stonewall uprising and early Pride rallies to the history of drag and ballroom—through stories of resistance, community and resilience. It highlights notable figures and everyday people whose lives and struggles shaped the fight for LGBTQ+ rights, presented in vivid, characterful artwork.

As civil war engulfs their country, three siblings set out to find their missing father, navigating landmines, armed soldiers and child kidnappers as they struggle for survival and a chance at safety and reconciliation.

Fred is Existor@stmarks online — a confident, popular gamer — but in real life he’s ignored and unhappy. When his gaming persona becomes known at school he starts spreading outrageous rumours to gain attention, only for the lies to escalate and cause real harm. The story follows the fallout and Fred’s struggle to be accepted for who he truly is, without revealing major plot twists.

A daily companion presenting 366 short, standalone entries on women and girls from around the world and across history. Each day highlights a person, moment, or movement—from well-known figures to overlooked pioneers—and includes quotes, poems and illustrations, making it easy to dip in for inspiration and learning.

Vanished traces how the modern idea of extinction emerged in the late eighteenth century—as scientists interpreted fossils such as mammoth remains—and replaced earlier beliefs in unchanging creation. Sadiah Qureshi argues extinction is not only an evolutionary phenomenon but also a political concept that has been used to justify colonial violence and to shape how societies understand and respond to species loss. Drawing on archival research and narrative history, the book links scientific discovery, empire, and ethics to show how disappearances of species reflect human choices as well as natural processes.

**The Forbidden Garden** delves into the gripping true story of a group of botanists during the Siege of Leningrad in World War II. As German forces encircled the city, the scientists were faced with a heart-wrenching decision: consume the seeds from their vast collection to survive or safeguard them for future generations to combat global hunger. This collection, housed in a converted palace, was the world's largest assembly of seeds and plants, painstakingly gathered over decades. Amidst the dire circumstances of the siege, these botanists chose to protect their invaluable work, even at the cost of their own lives. Their story highlights the enduring importance of preserving biodiversity in the face of adversity.

Masud Husain uses seven patient case studies to explore how brain functions—perception, attention, memory, motivation and empathy—shape our sense of self. The book explains how disruptions to these functions can alter personality and behaviour, and how modern neuroscience helps us understand and sometimes treat those changes. It’s an accessible, human-centred account of how the brain creates identity.

Proto traces the origins and spread of Proto-Indo-European, a language born after the last ice age near the Black Sea, and how its speakers dispersed across Eurasia. Combining linguistic, archaeological and genetic evidence, the book follows migrations and cultural encounters that gave rise to today’s largest language family and considers what that deep history reveals about language and human movement.

A concise, spoiler-free account of the seventy-year rise of nuclear physics, beginning with Henri Becquerel’s discovery of radioactivity and following scientists such as Ernest Rutherford, Enrico Fermi, Irène Joliot-Curie, and Edward Teller. Frank Close traces how curiosity-driven experiments unlocked the atom and led to both transformative technologies and the creation of atomic and hydrogen weapons, while examining the scientific, moral, and political questions that followed.

Maggie and Kurt are a married couple in an old farmhouse whose relationship has frayed after their daughter leaves home. When their past becomes entangled with the Scandinavian Star ferry disaster — later revealed to involve an insurance scam — they face how money, greed and desire have shaped their choices and their ability to connect.

Sololand je dvodelni roman koji prati živote ljudi iz Iraka i drugih raseljenih regiona — njihovu emigraciju, potrage za azilom i posledice ratova, korupcije i represije. Kroz lične priče i oštru društvenu kritiku, knjiga spaja emotivni prikaz sudbina migranata sa napetim, gotovo detektivskim zapletom u drugom delu, bez otkrivanja ključnih obrta.

Lugma is a cookbook of more than 100 recipes from Noor Murad inspired by her Bahraini upbringing and the wider Middle East and South Asia. The title—meaning “a bite”—reflects a focus on bold, herb‑forward, sour and spiced flavours across salads, rice dishes, slow‑cooked meats and desserts. Recipes blend Gulf, Iranian, Indian and Levantine influences into approachable, home‑cookable dishes meant to evoke warmth and shared meals.

Roopa Gulati travels across India to capture the flavours of regional, home-style cooking and presents over 100 accessible, vibrant recipes for everyday meals and special occasions. The book focuses on authentic, ingredient-driven dishes you can recreate with supermarket staples—ranging from dals and tikkis to coastal fish curries and rich lamb dishes—while evoking the tastes and traditions of kitchens from Kerala to Gujarat and Bengal to Pondicherry.

Helen Goh, a pastry chef and longtime recipe developer with Ottolenghi, presents 100+ sweet and savory recipes rooted in her Malaysian and Australian upbringing and her experience with Mediterranean and Middle Eastern flavors. The book combines approachable, inventive bakes—cakes, cookies, bars, and savory galettes and focaccia—with personal reflections on how baking creates connection and meaning in everyday life.

In The Once and Future Riot, Joe Sacco investigates the 2013 Muzaffarnagar communal clashes in Uttar Pradesh, India, by interviewing officials, community leaders, and victims. Through immersive visual reportage he traces how rumors, competing narratives, crowd dynamics, and political maneuvering combine to produce and justify sectarian violence. The book uses this specific riot as an archetype for understanding how communal conflict can erupt and be remembered in fragile multiethnic societies.

Set in a rain-slicked 1970s European city, Dry Cleaned follows François, a solitary dry-cleaning delivery driver trapped in a daily routine who dreams of winning the lottery to improve the life of a local newsagent and her daughter. A routine call to a country mansion leads him to a disturbing discovery that forces him to decide whether to break from the life he’s always known. It’s a moody, atmospheric noir about quiet desperation and the ripple effects of a single impulsive choice.

Urfi, a cat-witch, conjures an angel to bear her children but flees his violence, carrying the embryonic egg of their unborn offspring into a faery forest. She raises her daughters—Isobel, Batzel, and Mazel—only to have the dangers tied to the angels resurface. The three must rely on secret magic, sisterhood, and friendship to protect one another in this dark, lyrical fairytale about motherhood, survival, and love.

Milk White Steed is a collection of ten stories about people from the West Indies adjusting to life in England. Blending Caribbean folklore, dreamlike surrealism, and everyday struggles, the book explores longing, memory, and the search for home without revealing key plot details.

Misery of Love follows Clare as dreamlike memories surface while she spends time with family at her grandfather’s funeral. Through shifting narratives and stormy grayscale imagery, the graphic novel examines race, memory and the lingering impact of France’s colonial past in Africa—without revealing key plot developments.

Set in 1991, Raised by Ghosts follows teenage Briana as she moves from lonely middle school lunches to the tentative friendships of high school while coping with divorced, emotionally distant parents. Told through first‑person class notes and diary entries, the semi‑autobiographical story explores her search for belonging, self‑worth, and authenticity, emphasizing quiet, everyday moments and small acts of connection.

Homeseeking follows Haiwen and Suchi, childhood friends from Shanghai whose lives are pulled apart in 1940s China. Over six decades, war, migration, and new circumstances carry them separately to Hong Kong, Taiwan, New York, and California. Alternating between Haiwen’s present-day reflections and Suchi’s memories, the novel examines how choices, memory, and longing shape their search for home and belonging.

Vi Liu, a twenty-three-year-old of Taiwanese and white heritage, is drifting through life in a Midwestern college town when she rescues a mysterious sentient blob outside a bar. As the creature becomes part of her life, Vi tries to shape it into her ideal partner and is compelled to confront loneliness, past relationships, and the role of race and identity in her search for belonging. The story blends humor and tenderness as Vi navigates love, control, and self-discovery.

Decades in the future under the authoritarian state of Qin, citizens use implanted Mindbanks to record and transfer memories, creating a new market and new ways to control perception. When a man inherits his late mother’s Mindbank—containing memories from before, during, and after the war that made Qin dominant—he suspects the Party may have altered them and decides to risk everything to reveal what they contain. The novel examines memory, history, and the ways power shapes collective truth.

Authority is a collection of essays by Andrea Long Chu that examines what authority means in contemporary criticism and culture. Chu reads novels, television, theater, and video games, revisiting works such as The Phantom of the Opera and the reception of Octavia Butler, while critiquing the habits of literary critics. She traces the history of criticism from the eighteenth century to the social-media era and argues for a form of criticism fit to respond to real political crises.

Bibliophobia is a memoir in which Sarah Chihaya examines her intense, sometimes fraught relationship with books — the “Life Ruiners” that have shaped her sense of self as a Japanese American and a literary critic. After a hospitalization for a nervous breakdown, she reflects on whether the stories that governed her life can be rewritten, using readings of works like The Bluest Eye, Anne of Green Gables, and The Last Samurai to explore cultural identity, depression, and recovery with candor and dark humor.

Six, a 6'7" player fighting to reclaim a starting spot, and Green, a 6'1" social-media savvy competitor, are lovers and rivals who break barriers as Asian American trans women playing in the men’s pro indoor volleyball league. As they navigate team politics, long-distance schedules, fandom, and public scrutiny, a pandemic-era championship bubble and a sudden public crisis test their relationship, careers, and capacity to grieve—without revealing how it ends.

Over seven days at the Grand Paloma Resort in the Dominican Republic, a local healer named Vida is drawn into a crisis when a guest child is harmed. Laura, a resort manager striving for a promotion, and her troubled sister Elena, a babysitter whose night of poor choices has consequences, must confront secrets and responsibilities as a disappearance escalates tensions. The novel explores class, family, community, and how far people will go to protect those they love.

Mitch Caddo, a young law graduate and political fixer, helps run the government and casino of the Passage Rouge Nation alongside his childhood friend, Tribal President Mack Beck. When a high-profile challenger enters the election and Mack’s estranged sister, Layla Beck—Mitch’s former love—becomes involved, old wounds and loyalties are tested. As tensions rise, Mitch and Layla must navigate power, family ties, and the community’s future while trying to keep political conflict from spilling into violence.

In 1999 New York, best friends Sal and Charo struggle to keep their dreams alive: Sal, a bookish science lover haunted by his past in Santo Domingo, and Charo, a young mother trapped in a controlling relationship and a dead-end job. When Sal finds connection in a vibrant queer social circle, both their worlds expand and force them to confront their identities, pasts, and what they owe to themselves and to each other. The novel explores migration, belonging, and the ways friendship can become a chosen home.

In 1967, Izzy Gently is orphaned when the doomsday cult she was born into clashes with the sheriff in the New Mexico desert. Taken in by a struggling rancher as NASA rocket tests alter the landscape, she grows into a life marked by loss, addiction, and a long search for faith. Moving from the Southwest through Texas to New Orleans, Izzy’s encounters with eccentric characters and her efforts to help others reclaim a sense of wonder become a personal journey about belief and meaning in the Space Age.

Middle Spoon follows a narrator who seems to have it all—a devoted husband, two children, and a younger boyfriend—until the boyfriend unexpectedly leaves. Grappling with his first intense heartbreak, he confronts social judgment and the limits of how relationships and family can be arranged while searching for a way to hold love and responsibility together. Witty and empathetic, the novel examines modern intimacy, polyamory, and the messy work of wanting and belonging.

Tōru Sakanishi, a recent architecture graduate, joins the small Murai Office and spends a sweltering summer in the mountain artists’ colony of Kita-Asama as the team works to design the National Library of Modern Literature. Told through Sakanishi’s observant voice, the novel explores architecture, the natural beauty of Japan, and the tensions between tradition and modernity as the firm competes with a rival office.

Fulfillment follows two half-brothers who reunite at their family home in Kentucky: Joel, a successful academic whose marriage is unraveling, and Emmett, a factory worker stalled by indecision. Joel’s wife Alice, restless and longing for connection, becomes entangled with Emmett, and their tensions force each character to confront class, desire, and the cost of escape. The novel examines family, shame, and the difficult choices people make in search of meaning.

When 30-something queer Brooklynite Wilder suddenly gains the ability to understand every language, they are taken in by a small coven of trans witches — Quibble, a portal traveler; Artemis, the seer and caretaker; and Mary Margaret, a teen with telekinetic powers. As Wilder learns to live with magic and find belonging, the group must face a hostile artificial intelligence that upends their sense of safety and forces them to reckon with questions of consciousness, identity, and embodiment. A character-driven, spoiler-free story about community, transformation, and what it means to belong.

Aggregated Discontent is a collection of sixteen essays that blend memoir, cultural criticism, and reporting to examine twenty‑first‑century womanhood. Harron Walker uses personal stories to explore work, relationships, fertility and embodiment, corporate pinkwashing, pressures to conform (including whiteness), and how institutions and intimate dynamics limit agency. Sharp, candid, and often darkly funny, the essays probe how women navigate labor, healthcare, identity, and desire without revealing specific plot details.

Goblin Mode blends memoir and fable as a version of Caroline Hagood undertakes a surreal three-day odyssey across plague-era Brooklyn and Puerto Rico. Parenting two spirited children amid a possibly haunted apartment, encounters with talking parrots and other strange figures, and the presence of a mischievous goblin push her toward bolder, wilder ways of being, leaving it unclear whether the weirdness is metaphorical or literal.

Nightshining follows Jennifer Kabat’s first year in Margaretville, New York, where a rain-swollen stream and a flooded basement prompt an investigation into the region’s environmental past. As she traces floods, Cold War weather experiments, and contested land histories affecting the Mohawk Nation, Kabat blends personal grief and family memory with reportage. The book is a lyrical, spoiler-free exploration of how place, history, and human efforts to control nature intersect.

Aiden Arata's You Have a New Memory is a short collection of personal essays that examines life online—identity, girlhood, and the ways digital platforms shape feeling and behavior. Mixing memoir and cultural criticism, Arata reflects on forums, fan fiction, TikTok, and influencer culture to question how we become creators, consumers, and commodities in the internet age.

How to Be Unmothered is a lyrical memoir set in Trinidad, where Camille U. Adams traces a family history of women who abandon their daughters and the island’s colonial legacies of violence. Adams writes about a fraught relationship with a controlling mother, the danger and poverty of her neighborhood, and the small consolations of the natural world as she navigates survival. The book explores escape, self-determination, and what it means to rebuild a life when the maternal bond is broken.

So Many Stars collects intimate oral histories from twenty trans and gender-nonconforming elders of color, sharing their personal journeys of identity, community-building, creativity, and activism across decades. Drawn from extensive interviews, the book preserves their memories and wisdom, offering a collective portrait of resilience, cultural innovation, and intergenerational connection.

When Jennifer discovers the Korean idea of yeokmasal—an alleged, inheritable urge to roam—she confronts her mother’s decades of restless moves and her own sudden displacements after a personal breakdown. Traveling between Brooklyn, South Carolina, and Oklahoma, the memoir follows their drifting apart and reconnections as Choi explores identity, belonging, and what it means to leave or stay. It’s a personal, thoughtful look at family, home, and living with uncertainty.