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.

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.

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.

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.

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.