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.

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.