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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.