A dense, witty novel about a trio of publishing editors who, as an intellectual game, stitch together scattered myths, historical tidbits, and occult lore into an elaborate conspiracy they dub “the Plan,” only to watch their invented pattern take on a life of its own; the book blends satire, detective elements, and philosophical reflections on interpretation, paranoia, and the human need to find order and meaning in chaos.

A gripping firsthand account of a daring reconstruction of a sixth-century leather-hulled boat and its transatlantic voyage from Ireland to Newfoundland, undertaken to test whether an early medieval seafarer could have reached North America. The narrative covers the traditional construction methods, navigation with period techniques, daily life aboard, and the constant hazards—storms, leaks, and ice—while conveying the physical and psychological challenges the crew faced and the voyage’s ultimate demonstration of feasibility.

Eyes of Horus is the third of Joan Grant's Far Memory novels, set in Egypt near the end of the XIth Dynasty. Told in the first person, Ra-ab, heir of the Oryx, discovers his province remains in touch with the light while the rest of Egypt is ruled by fear and corruption. From the Oryx arises a silent brotherhood, the eyes of Horus or Watchers of the Horizon, whose password is Send Fear into Exile.

A bold retelling of a well-known epic that follows Sita from her miraculous origins and education in the court of Mithila to her rise as a fiercely intelligent warrior, stateswoman and moral philosopher; the narrative reframes familiar episodes—her marriage to a noble prince, life at court, exile and eventual abduction by a powerful adversary—as tests of agency, courage and leadership, exploring how she navigates politics, duty and personal conviction to become both a leader in her own right and the architect of a legend.

Cornwall, 1730. Red learns the Cornish Square of Sevens from her father, who before his death places her with a gentleman scholar and leaves a document with the method's secret. Raised in Bath, she uses fortune telling to delight high society while she pursues who her mother was and the enemies her father feared. Her search takes her to London, Devon, the Bartholomew Fair, and the grand houses of two powerful families, bringing the possibility of reward and the risk of grave danger.

Set in 1861 on the eve of Abraham Lincoln's inauguration, Never Sleep follows Kate Warn, the first female private detective in American history, and her mentee Hattie MacLaughlin. As the first female agents in the Pinkerton National Police Agency they work to foil a conspiracy to assassinate the president. Their mission moves from rural Maryland to secessionist high society and forces Hattie to choose between saving her mentor and saving the country when Kate's cover is blown. Based on a true story.

An emotionally taut psychological thriller about an artist who begins producing paintings tied to memories she cannot explain; as the images surface details of a long-buried disappearance and tangled family secrets, she must unravel who she once was, who she can trust, and whether revealing the truth will bring healing or put her—and those she loves—at risk.

A sharp critique of contemporary economic life arguing that powerful institutions—corporations, financial interests, and a compliant expert class—systematically mislead the public with comforting myths and misleading statistics to protect their privilege; the book explains how advertising, propaganda, and expert opinion manufacture consent for harmful policies, deepen inequality, and weaken democratic accountability, while urging greater public scrutiny and institutional reform to correct the distortions that pass for sound economic management.

An ordinary Tokyo man’s life is upended when his wife vanishes, launching him into a strange, dreamlike search that brings him into contact with psychic mediums, a menacing politician, and a cast of enigmatic figures; as he descends into a dry well and into other people’s memories, wartime violence and buried secrets surface. The story blends domestic mystery, surreal episodes, and haunting historical flashbacks to blur the line between reality and the unconscious, probing themes of loss, alienation, and the hidden forces that shape personal and national histories.

A passionate, revisionist history that assembles Ethiopian chronicles, classical writings, oral traditions, and archaeological evidence to portray the ancient Cushite civilization of northeast Africa as a sophisticated, long-lived culture whose rulers, monumental architecture (including pyramids and temples), religious systems, and literary and political institutions shaped the region’s history; the work argues against Eurocentric distortions by reclaiming indigenous African agency, leadership, and contributions to early civilization.

A quiet, intimate portrait of a young woman who moves to a provincial port town and struggles to keep everyday life intact as the Second World War draws closer and eventually engulfs her world; through small domestic details, creative scrap-making, and the rhythms of family and neighborhood, the narrative shows how scarcity, air raids, conscription, and loss reshape ordinary routines and relationships, while highlighting resilience, memory, and the human cost of conflict on civilians.

A celebratory pair of portraits that contrast two complementary medieval temperaments: one an austere, systematic thinker who embodies ordered reason, theological rigor, and fidelity to truth; the other a joyous, poetic rebel who embraces poverty, wonder, and intimate kinship with creation. Through lively biography, wit, and cultural critique, the writer shows how the Thomistic insistence on intellect and law and the Franciscan insistence on love and imagination balance and correct each other, together offering an antidote to modern materialism, skepticism, and spiritual complacency.

Through the imagined life of a single instrument, the book traces the piano’s physical and cultural evolution, interweaving the craftsmanship of builders, the creative breakthroughs of composers, and intimate stories of performers and listeners; it explains musical concepts in accessible terms while reflecting on how the piano has shaped and been shaped by changing tastes, social contexts and human emotions.

A brisk, accessible single-volume history that traces Poland’s thousand-year journey from medieval statehood through the partitions and insurrections, the twin cataclysms of Nazi and Soviet occupations, decades of communist rule, and the eventual rebirth of democracy after 1989. Blending political narrative with cultural detail and vivid portraits of key figures and movements, it explains how geography, external powers, and internal divisions shaped Polish identity and resilience, and how civic movements such as Solidarity transformed both the nation and the wider European order.

A clear-eyed analysis of how fossil-fuel interests and allied actors have shifted from outright denial to a subtler campaign of delay and diversion—promoting individual blame, sowing doubt, greenwashing, doomism, and narrow techno-fix narratives—to block meaningful policy; the book exposes these tactics, explains why focusing solely on personal choices is insufficient, and calls for defending climate science, countering misinformation, and pursuing systemic political and economic solutions (strong regulation, public investment in clean energy, and mass civic engagement) to achieve real emissions reductions.

A hybrid, multilingual poetic meditation that maps linguistic and bodily drift across seas and histories, assembling fragments—from Old Norse echoes and archival traces to contemporary reportage and spoken rhythms—into a collage about migration, memory, climate and the erosion of language and borders; through translation, repetition and sonic play it traces how words and people are carried, transformed and lost by currents of time, water and political movement.

A lyrical, elegiac meditation on a city of canals that uses precise, observant detail—light on stone, the sounds of water, gondolas, churches and cemeteries—to explore memory, time, exile and mortality; part travelogue, part essay, it layers personal recollection and literary and historical reflection into compact, poetic prose that treats the landscape as both living archive and mirror for the writer’s own inner life.

A controversial, practical manual originally published in the 1970s that compiles recipes and instructions—ranging from improvised explosives and weaponry to drug production, sabotage techniques, and basic guerrilla tactics—interspersed with anti-establishment commentary; its publication provoked widespread debate and legal, ethical, and safety concerns because of the detailed, potentially dangerous information it contains.

A fictionalized, elegiac memoir written as the private reflections of an aging Roman emperor, it reconstructs his reign through lucid meditations on power, art, philosophy and the burdens of rule. He recalls military campaigns and administrative reforms, celebrates Greco-Roman culture and the building of cities and monuments, and mourns the loss of a beloved companion, whose death exposes the fragility of happiness and the persistence of memory. The narrative voice blends classical erudition with intimate confession, probing mortality, legacy, ethical dilemmas of empire and the inner needs that shaped public decisions.

Using archival evidence and historical analysis, the book argues that much of what became known as Western Marxism was shaped and constrained by covert and overt sponsorship from state and corporate foundations during the Cold War; this funding helped form institutions, journals, and careers that redirected Marxist thought away from revolutionary politics toward cultural, managerial, and academic forms of critique, producing a depoliticized, domesticated Marxism that served to contain and neutralize radical movements. The work calls for a critical reexamination of intellectual history and for reclaiming Marxist theory as a tool for emancipatory political practice rather than institutional accommodation.

Over eight decades Ravi Shankar brought Indian classical music to leading concert halls and festivals worldwide and influenced later musicians. He taught George Harrison sitar, introduced the Sixties generation to Indian music, and performed at Woodstock, Monterey Pop and the Concert for Bangladesh. He reshaped jazz and Western classical music, composed film scores including Pather Panchali and Gandhi, and Indian Sun uses family archives to trace his life from childhood in his brother's dance troupe to a pioneering international career.

An American ambulance driver serving with the Italian forces during World War I falls into a passionate, complicated relationship with a British nurse amid the chaos of battle; their love offers refuge from the brutality of war but is tested by injury, retreat, and bureaucratic indifference. After being wounded and returning to the front, he deserts and the couple flee to Switzerland seeking peace, only for their fragile hopes to collapse when tragedy strikes during childbirth. The narrative is a spare, elegiac exploration of courage, disillusionment, and the costs of love in a world ravaged by conflict.

A wide-ranging, reportage-driven exploration of contemporary queer life and politics across the globe, blending personal stories of activists and ordinary people with analysis of the legal, religious and cultural forces that shape struggles for recognition and safety; the book traces how globalization, colonial history and local traditions produce divergent trajectories of progress and backlash, showing both the gains of increased visibility and the persistent, sometimes violent, resistance to change, and argues for nuanced, place-specific solidarities rather than a single universal model of LGBTQ rights.

A thoughtful, accessible interpretation of the biblical story that treats one man’s catastrophic losses as a challenge to simplistic theodicies, rejecting the idea that suffering is divine punishment and instead emphasizing the limits of human understanding and the mystery of God; it follows his endurance and debates with well-meaning but wrongheaded friends, records his anguished protest before God, and draws practical lessons about preserving integrity, accepting uncertainty, and meeting suffering with compassion, solidarity, and moral courage rather than neat answers.