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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.