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100 Nights of a Lifetime: The World's Ultimate Adventures After Dark
Stephanie Vermillion

In this one-of-a-kind illustrated collection, discover 100 after-dark adventures around the world, from kayaking Puerto Rico’s bioluminescent bay to performing Mas in Caribbean Carnivals to chasing the aurora borealis in Canada’s northern provinces.

399 pp. Hardcover - Nature

101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Brianna Wiest

These meditations include why you should pursue purpose over passion, embrace negative thinking, see the wisdom in daily routine, and become aware of the cognitive biases that are creating the way you see your life.

441 pp. Hardcover - Miscellaneous

The Abandoners: On Mothers and Monsters
Begoña Gómez Urzaiz

An incisive collection about motherhood and creative life through the lens of mothers―in history, literature, and pop culture―who have abandoned their children.

One of NPR's "Books We Love" in 2024

245 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

Acts of Resistance: The Power of Art to Create a Better World
Amber Massie-Blomfield

What is the purpose of art in a world on fire? In this exhilarating and deeply inspiring work, Amber Massie-Blomfield considers the work of artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers―such as Gran Fury, Billie Holiday, Alexis Wright, Claude Cahun, Rick Lowe, and Joseph Beuys―alongside collectives, communities, and organizations that have used protest sites as their canvas and spearheaded political movements.

242 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

Adventures in Theater History: Philadelphia
Peter Schmitz

A collection of stories and fascinating facets of theater history in Philadelphia.

305 pp. Hardcover - History

Aflame: Learning from Silence
Pico Iyer

From the bestselling author of The Art of Stillness, a revelatory exploration of the abiding clarity and calm to be found in quiet retreat

National Bestseller

221 pp. Hardcover - Miscellaneous

Against the Grain
Peter Lovesey

Detective Peter Diamond (Book #22) goes undercover at a seasonal festival in this delightful and bittersweet conclusion to the multi-award-winning series.

366 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Agent Zo: The Untold Story of a Fearless World War II Resistance Fighter
Clare Mulley

The incredible and inspiring story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the World War II female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo.

393 pp. Hardcover - Biography

All Our Ordinary Stories: A Multigenerational Family Odyssey
Teresa Wong

From the author of Dear Scarlet comes a graphic memoir about the obstacles one daughter faces as she attempts to connect with her immigrant parents.

238 pp. Hardcover - Graphic Novel

The American No
Rupert Everett

Eight masterful stories of love and loss, drama and glamour, and hope and rejection from the acclaimed actor and “supremely gifted writer” (The Sunday Times, London) Rupert Everett.

305 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Andrew Wyeth at Kuerner Farm: The Eye of the Earth
William L. Coleman

The most private of artists was beguiled by a hardscrabble farm and its residents down the road from his studio, revealing some of his most personal friendships, and yielding some of his most iconic paintings.

158 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Andromeda
Therese Bohman

Working her way up at a storied Stockholm publisher, a young woman develops an ambiguous, shifting relationship with her boss, in this shrewd novel about the tension between tradition and modernity, and expectations and reality.

Translated from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy.

183 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt

A must-read for all parents: the generation-defining investigation into the collapse of youth mental health in the era of smartphones, social media, and big tech—and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood.

Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller; New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book; One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2024; A TIME 100 Must-Read Book of 2024

385 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

Architecture Repurposed
Editors: Uri Gilad, Annuska Pronkhorst, Jan Peter Wingender

A Dutch architecture firm showcases the transformative power of historical preservation.

190 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
Julia Cameron

A revolutionary program for personal renewal, The Artist's Way will help get you back on track, rediscover your passions, and take the steps you need to change your life.

249 pp. Hardcover - Miscellaneous

The Bauhaus Group: Six Masters of Modernism
Nicholas Fox Weber

In this extraordinary group biography, Weber brilliantly brings to life the Bauhaus geniuses and the community of the pioneering art school in Germany’s Weimar and Dessau in the 1920s and early 1930s.

521 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right
Walter Mosley

In the latest from “mystery master” Walter Mosley, a family member’s terminal illness leads P.I. Joe King Oliver to the investigation of his life: tracking down his long-lost father, and meanwhile, a new case pits King’s professional responsibility against his own moral code.

321 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Beggar’s Bedlam
Nabarun Bhattacharya

Beggar’s Bedlam is a surreal novel that unleashes the chaos of the carnival on the familiar. Part literary descendent of Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita and part a reconstruction of lost Bengali history, Nabarun Bhattacharya’s masterpiece is a jubilant, fizzing wire of subaltern anarchy and insurrection.

301 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
Peter Beinart

A bold, urgent appeal from the acclaimed columnist and political commentator, addressing one of the most important issues of our time.

New York Times Bestseller

172 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

The Bergdoll Boys: America’s Most Notorious Millionaire Draft Dodgers
Timothy W. Lake

A biography of a German American family who grew wealthy from their Philadelphia beer brewing company in the late nineteenth century.

432 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Bibliophobia
Sarah Chihaya

Bibliophobia is an alternately searing and darkly humorous story of breakdown and survival told through books. Delving into texts such as Anne of Green Gables, Possession, A Tale for the Time Being, The Last Samurai, Chihaya interrogates her cultural identity, her relationship with depression, and the intoxicating, sometimes painful, ways books push back on those who love them.

214 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
Imani Perry

A surprising and beautiful meditation on the color blue—and its fascinating role in Black history and culture.

 

243 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

Blackout
Marco Carocari

Strait-laced forty-something Franco definitely picked the wrong night to get freaky. A hook-up with a hot guy on his Manhattan rooftop, and a joint he's unaware is laced, leaves him dazed. And -- if memory serves him -- the sole witness to a murder across the street. Except, the cops can't find a crime scene or a body, and Franco's perforated recollections and conflicting testimony leave the detectives unimpressed.

278 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

The Blanket Cats
Kiyoshi Shigematsu

Seven struggling customers are given the unique opportunity to take home a "blanket cat" . . . but only for three days, the time it’ll take to change their lives.

263 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Blob
Maggie Su

A humorous and deeply moving debut novel in the vein of Bunny and Convenience Store Woman about a young woman who tries to shape a sentient blob into her perfect boyfriend.

246 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Blood Ties
Jo Nesbo

From the modern master of Nordic suspense comes an explosive novel about a community in crisis and two brothers on the verge of losing everything they’ve worked so hard to achieve.

367 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

A Bon Voyage: Souvenirs of a month in Southwestern France - and back again
Monique Seyler

A memoir by Monique Seyler

83 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Boudicca
P. C. Cast

From P. C. Cast, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the landmark House of Night urban fantasy series, comes an epic, lusty, magic-filled romantasy about British warrior queen Boudicca. Perfect for fans of Sue Lynn Tan and Madeline Miller!

466 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Boys Who Hurt
Eva Björg Ægisdóttir

Forbidden Iceland Book #5

Fresh from maternity leave, Detective Elma investigates complex case of a man murdered in a holiday cottage, while SÆvar discovers something in a discarded box that could help crack the case. The multi-award-winning, number one bestselling Forbidden Iceland series continues...

276 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Bright I Burn
Molly Aitken

A fierce, electrifying novel inspired by the true story of the first woman to be condemned as a witch in Ireland.

Irish Bestseller

253 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Brightly Shining
Ingvild Rishøi

Beautifully told with humor and tenderness, a Norwegian Christmas tale of sisterhood, financial hardship, and far-off dreams, acclaimed by reviewers and beloved by readers across Europe, where it has been a major bestseller.

182 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900–1939
Robyn Asleson

A scintillating account of the cultural freedom and empowerment that American women experienced as leaders in the avant-garde scene in early twentieth-century Paris

277 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations
Simon Jenkins

Historian Simon Jenkins has traveled the length and breadth of Britain to select this joyous celebration of social history. With his usual insight and authority, he describes the history, geography, design, and significance of each of these glories; explores their role in the national imagination; champions the engineers, architects, and rival companies that made them possible; and tells the story behind the development, triumphs, and follies of these very British creations.

326 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Brother Brontë
Fernando A. Flores

Two women fight to save their dystopian border town―and literature―in this gonzo near-future adventure.

337 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Building Ghosts: Past Lives and Lost Places in a Changing City
Molly Lester

Building Ghosts features more than 100 striking contemporary color photographs and a deeply researched narrative about Philadelphia’s buildings, neighborhoods, and the ghosts that reveal new truths and provocations about the changing city. Photographs by Michael Bixler

270 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Building the Metropolis: Architecture, Construction, and Labor in New York City, 1880–1935
Alexander Wood

A sweeping history of New York that chronicles the construction of one of the world’s great cities.

474 pp. Hardcover - History

The Café with No Name
Robert Seethaler

A vibrant tale of love, companionship, and renewal set against the transformations of 1960s Vienna.

#1 International Bestseller

pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Canoes
Maylis De Kerangal

A colorful cast of female characters contends with UFOs, sonic waves, and the legend of Buffalo Bill in a spellbinding novella and 7 short stories about the mysteries of place and language.

197 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Category Five: Superstorms and the Warming Oceans That Feed Them
Porter Fox

Superstorms, hurricanes, typhoons, and spiraling freak weather: the fallout of global warming is a real-life natural thriller, as captured in Porter Fox’s urgent and stunning story of chasing the world’s most devastating storms.

270 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

The Causative Factor
Megan Staffel

Told in shifting points of view, The Causative Factor explores the power of art and love in a story that asserts the complexities of human nature.

213 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Charity, Change, and Community: Frankford's Swedenborgians and Their Circle | Volumes 1 & 2
Gail Rodgers McCormick

Spurred by a surprising family discovery, Gail McCormick embarked on an historical journey to uncover the story of a unique society of Swedenborgians, a Christian sect inspired by the works of eighteenth-century scientist and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg.

  • Vol. 1. 1817-1875
  • Vol. 2. 1875-1971
821 pp. Hardcover - History

Christmas Crimes at The Mysterious Bookshop
Otto Penzler (Editor)

Twelve festive crime stories set in New York City’s beloved mystery bookstore.

320 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Citizen: My Life After the White House
Bill Clinton

A powerful, candid, and richly detailed memoir from an American icon, revealing what life looks like after the presidency: triumphs, tribulations, and all.

446 pp. Hardcover - Biography

The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Haruki Murakami

From the author of Norwegian Wood and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World comes a love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for our peculiar times.

New York Times Bestseller

449 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The City in Glass
Nghi Vo

In this new standalone novel, Hugo Award-winning author Nghi Vo introduces a beguiling fantasy city in the tradition of Calvino, Mieville, and Le Guin.

215 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

City of Night Birds
Juhea Kim

A once-famous ballerina faces a final choice—to return to the world of Russian dance that nearly broke her, or to walk away forever—in this incandescent novel of redemption and love.

Reese's Book Club Pick

310 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Cold as Hell
Lilja Sigurdardottir, Quentin Bates

ÁrÓra returns to Iceland when her estranged sister goes missing, and her search leads to places she could never have imagined.

pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
József Debreczeni

A lost classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first time―from journalist, poet and survivor József Debreczeni. Translated by Paul Olchváry.

One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2024

244 pp. Hardcover - Biography

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis

Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers. She has been called "an American virtuoso of the short story form" (Salon) and "one of the quiet giants . . . of American fiction" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now, for the first time, Davis's short stories are collected in one volume, from the groundbreaking Break It Down (1986) to the 2007 National Book Award nominee Varieties of Disturbance.

733 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Comforting Myths: Concerning the Political in Art
Rabih Alameddine

In this concisely argued and illuminating book, the PEN/Faulkner Award–winning author Rabih Alameddine takes the subject of politics and art head-on, questioning the very premise of dividing these two pillars of culture into an either/or proposition.

82 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

A Concrete Alliance: Communism and Modern Architecture in Postwar France
Vanessa Grossman

The compelling story of the significant relationship between communism and modern architecture in postwar France.

276 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever
Lydia Reeder

How Victorian male doctors used false science to argue that women were unfit for anything but motherhood―and the brilliant doctor who defied them

320 pp. Hardcover - Science

Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive
Eliot Stein

A vivid look at 10 astonishing people who are maintaining some of the world's oldest and rarest cultural traditions.

325 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

Dark Tourist: Essays
Hasanthika Sirisena

Deftly blending reportage, cultural criticism, and memoir, Sirisena pieces together facets of her own sometimes-fractured self to find wider resonances with the human universals of love, sex, family, and art―and with language’s ability to both fail and save us.

Finalist for the 2022 LAMBDA Literary Award in Bisexual Nonfiction; Winner of the 2021 Gournay Prize

178 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

Death Comes to Marlow
Robert Thorogood

BBC One show creator of Death in Paradise, Robert Thorogood delights in giving the Christie-mystery a busy-body twist. Judith (our favorite skinny-dipping, whiskey-sipping, crossword puzzle author), along with Becks the vicar's wife, and Susie the dogwalker find themselves in a head-scratching, utterly clever country house, locked-room murder mystery.

282 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Death Deserved
Thomas Enger & Jorn Lier Horst

Police officer Alexander Blix and celebrity blogger Emma Ramm join forces to track down a serial killer with a thirst for attention and high-profile murders, in the first episode of a gripping new Nordic Noir series...

328 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Didion & Babitz
Lili Anolik

Joan Didion is revealed at last in this outrageously provocative and profoundly moving new work "that reads like a propulsive novel" (Oprah Daily) on the mutual attractions—and mutual antagonisms—of Didion and her fellow literary titan, Eve Babitz.

National Bestseller; Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, Vogue, the Washington Post

344 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Don't Build, Rebuild: The Case for Imaginative Reuse in Architecture
Aaron Betsky

In a time of climate crisis and housing shortages, a bold, visionary call to replace current wasteful construction practices with an architecture of reuse.

222 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Drawing/Thinking: Confronting an Electronic Age
Marc Treib (Editor)

This book addresses the question ‘Why draw?’ by examining the various dynamic relationships between media, process, thought and environment.

190 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Dream Count
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A publishing event ten years in the makinga searing, exquisite new novel by the bestselling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feministsthe story of four women and their loves, longings, and desires.

Longlisted for The Women's Prize

399 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Driving Machine: A Design History of the Car
Witold Rybczynski

The renowned design writer on the extraordinary history of car design.

235 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

East Coasting: The Ultimate Roadtripper’s Guide to New England
Christine Chitnis, Monica Dorazewski

Discover the ultimate illustrated guide to road-tripping up through historic New England, and the must-visit spots along the way

A USA Today Bestseller

195 pp. Hardcover - Travel

Eight Very Bad Nights: A Collection of Hanukkah Noir
Tod Goldberg (Editor)

Curated by New York Times bestselling author Tod Goldberg, this collection of eleven delightful and twisted Hanukkah capers will entertain you through all eight nights of the Festival of Lights.

291 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Empire of Cotton: A Global History
Sven Beckert

A Pulitzer Prize finalist that's as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came to exist.

Winner of the Bancroft Prize

615 pp. Hardcover - History

End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland
Haruki Murakami

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 1Q84 and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle comes a relentlessly inventive novel that dives deep into the very nature of consciousness. Translated by Jay Rubin.

446 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Ends of Collage
Yuval Etgar (Editor)

The Ends of Collage anthologizes texts on collage ranging from the early 20th century to the present. The theoretical motivations that precipitated the emergence of collage are placed in conversation with those that expanded the medium beyond its traditional limits in the late 1970s, with the rise of digital culture.

235 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Endurance: The Discovery of Shackleton's Legendary Ship
John Shears, Nico Vincent

This is the amazing story in words and images of the historic discovery of the wreck of Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance, deep beneath the ice of Antarctica.

253 pp. Hardcover - History

The English Landscape Garden: Dreaming of Arcadia
Tim Richardson

Smooth lawns, glassy pools, cool garden temples, mysterious woodland glades, evocative statuary ... the 18th-century English landscape garden offers a transcendent vision of Arcadia, a world of rich escapism peopled by gods and goddesses, young lovers and dairymaids, poets and philosophers.

319 pp. Hardcover - History

The English Problem
Beena Kamlani

A young Indian man is tapped to help his country’s fight for freedom—but his heart engages him in a different war.

pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Enigma Girl
Henry Porter

From internationally bestselling author who is “filling the gap left by Len Deighton and John le Carre” (Evening Standard) comes a propulsive espionage thriller for fans of Mick Herron, Daniel Silva, and Olen Steinhauer. Meet disgraced MI5 agent Slim Parsons, a character who - like Lisbeth Salander - will sear your soul.

439 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
César Aira

Preface by Roberto Bolaño

An astounding novel from Argentina that is a meditation on the beautiful and the grotesque in nature, the art of landscape painting, and one experience in a man's life that became a lightning rod for inspiration.

87 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Essential Italy 2025
Fodor's Travel Guides

Whether you want to visit the Colosseum in Rome, go designer shopping in Milan, or hike the Cinque Terre, the local Fodor's travel experts in Italy are here to help! Fodor's Essential Italy 2025 guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time.

880 pp. Hardcover - Travel

Every Arc Bends Its Radian
Sergio De La Pava

From PEN Award­­–winning author Sergio de la Pava comes an existential detective novel about a private investigator who flees New York City for Colombia after a personal tragedy and finds himself entangled in a young woman’s strange disappearance—which may be connected to one of the world’s most ruthless criminal organizations.

265 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Exploring Gender in Vernacular Architecture
Jessica Ellen Sewell

Sewell considers the gender of those who create and shape spaces, how gender ideology contributes to and manifests itself in built form, and what research methods make the observation of gendered experience possible.

178 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers
Jean Strouse

Jean Strouse captures the dramas, mysteries, intrigues, and tragedies surrounding John Singer Sargent's portraits of the Wertheimer family.

311 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Finding Otipemisiwak: The People Who Own Themselves
Andrea Currie

Forcibly removed from her Indigenous family as a child, Andrea Currie journeys back to her Nation and the truth of who she is.

269 pp. Hardcover - Biography

The First State of Being
Erin Entrada Kelly

When twelve-year-old Michael Rosario meets a mysterious boy from the future, his life is changed forever. From bestselling author Erin Entrada Kelly, also the winner of the Newbery Medal for Hello, Universe and a Newbery Honor for We Dream of Space, this novel explores themes of family, friendship, trust, and forgiveness. The First State of Being is for fans of Rebecca Stead’s When You Reach Me.

Winner of the Newbury Medal; Finalist for the 2024 National Book Award; New York Times Bestseller

253 pp. Hardcover - Youth

Five Moral Pieces
Umberto Eco

In this prescient essay collection, the acclaimed author of Foucault’s Pendulum examines the cultural trends and perils at the dawn of the 21st century.

111 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

Floriography: An Illustrated Guide to the Victorian Language of Flowers
Jessica Roux

A charming, gorgeously illustrated botanical encyclopedia for your favorite romantic, local witch, bride-to-be, or green-thumbed friend.

213 pp. Hardcover - Miscellaneous

Fodor's Paris 2025
Fodor's Travel Guides

Whether you want to walk to the top of the Eiffel Tower, explore the Louvre, or stroll down the Champs-Élysées the local Fodor's travel experts in Paris are here to help! Fodor's Paris guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time.

399 pp. Hardcover - Travel

The Forger's Requiem
Bradford Morrow

A gripping literary thriller that brings readers inside the world of expert forgery, rivalrous fury, and generations of dark family secrets, with Mary Shelley’s voice and life woven throughout

276 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Fragmentary Forms: A New History of Collage
Freya Gowrley

A beautifully illustrated global history of collage from the origins of paper to today.

399 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Frankie
Graham Norton

From the internationally bestselling author and host of The Graham Norton Show, a dazzling and decades-sweeping story about love, bravery, and what it means to live a significant life.

293 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Freedom: Memoirs 1954 – 2021
Angela Merkel

Reflecting on politics in a time of increasing confrontation and division, Angela Merkel’s memoir offers a unique insight into the inner workings of power―and is a determined and timely plea for freedom.

New York Times & USA Today Bestseller

709 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Frighten the Horses
Oliver Radclyffe

A textured, sharply written memoir about coming of age in the fourth decade of one’s life and embracing one's truest self in a world that demands gender fit in neat boxes.

344 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Gabriel's Moon
William Boyd

From the internationally bestselling author beloved by readers everywhere, William Boyd offers his most exhilarating novel yet, following a reluctant spy drawn into the shadows of espionage and obsession

263 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Giant Love: Edna Ferber, Her Best-selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic American Film
Julie Gilbert

A book that explores the great American novelist and playwright Edna Ferber, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, whose work was made into many Academy Award-winning movies; the writing of her controversial, international best-selling novel about Texas, and the making of George Stevens’ Academy Award winning epic film of the same name, Giant.

384 pp. Hardcover - Biography

The Gilded Life of Richard Morris Hunt: Architecture and Art for an American Civilization
Sam Watters

The illustrated story of the life and times of architect Richard Morris Hunt, his forty-year career, and his impact on American culture after the Civil War.

312 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Gliff
Ali Smith

From a literary master, a moving and genre-bending story about our era-spanning search for meaning and knowing.

273 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Going Home
Tom Lamont

A sparkling, funny, bighearted story of family and what happens when three men—all of whom are completely ill-suited for fatherhood—take charge of a toddler following an unexpected loss.

287 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
William Dalrymple

The internationally bestselling author of The Anarchy returns with a sparkling, soaring history of ideas, tracing South Asia's under-recognized role in producing the world as we know it.

82 pp. Hardcover - History

Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian American Daughters on Obedience and Rebellion
Piyali Bhattacharya (Editor)

An anthology filled with honest stories-emotional and joyous, sorrowful and humorous-from a diverse array of powerful women. Many of the essays dig into difficult truths about what it is to be a young woman in a world of overbearing cultural expectation. Others uncover relationships between parents and daughters that are open and supportive while also being exacting. Together, these narratives expose struggles that are too often hidden from the public eye, while reminding those going through similar experiences that they are heard, and they are not alone.

196 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

Good Material
Dolly Alderton

In this sharply funny and exquisitely relatable story of romantic disaster and friendship, Dolly Alderton offers up a love story with two endings, demonstrating once again why she is one of the most exciting writers today, and the true voice of a generation.

New York Times Bestseller; One of The New York Times Book Review's Best Books of 2024. A Today Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick

319 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Good-for-Nothing-Girl
Sefi Atta

A young woman's quest for a better education results in a case of modern-day slavery, written by the award-winning author of Swallow and Everything Good Will Come.

182 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Granddaughter
Bernhard Schlink

From the bestselling author of The Reader, a striking exploration of the past, told through the story of a German bookseller’s attempt to connect with his radicalized granddaughter.

326 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Great Flower Books, 1700-1900: A Bibliographical Record of Two Centuries of Finely-Illustrated Flower Books
Sacheverell Sitwell, Wilfrid Blunt, Patrick Millington Synge

A bibliographical record of two centuries of finely-illustrated flower books / by Sacheverell Sitwell and Wilfrid Blunt ; the bibliography edited by Patrick M. Synge and compiled by W.T. Stearn, Sabine Wilson, and Handasyde Buchanan ; with a foreword by S. Dillon Ripley.

189 pp. Hardcover - Miscellaneous

Greatness: Diverse Designers of Architecture
Pascale Sablan

A compelling exploration of the contributions of diverse architects to the field of architecture.

pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

The Heartbeat Library
Laura Imai Messina

Translated from the Italian by Lucy Rand.

A tender, contemplative, and uplifting novel about grief, friendship, and the many ways we heal, by the internationally bestselling author of The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World.

383 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson
Paul French

New York Times bestselling author Paul French examines a controversial and revealing period in the early life of the legendary Wallis, Duchess of Windsor–her one year in China.

298 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Hidden Libraries: The World’s Most Unusual Book Depositories
DC Helmuth, Nancy Pearl

Discover 50 of the world's most magnificent hidden libraries - each with a unique and uplifting story to tell - featuring a foreword by librarian, bestselling author, and literary critic Nancy Pearl.

207 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

The History of Sound
Ben Shattuck

A stunning collection of interconnected stories, set mostly in New England, exploring how the past is often misunderstood and how history, family, heartache, and desire can echo over centuries In twelve luminous stories set across three centuries, The History of Sound examines the unexpected ways the past returns to us and how love and loss are entwined and transformed over generations.

Winner of The Story Prize Spotlight Award; Longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction; Longlisted for The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction 

308 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Honolulu Noir
Chris McKinney (Editor)

The Aloha State enters the Akashic Noir Series arena with a riveting collection, exploring shadows and corners of Honolulu that will never be found in a tourist brochure.

274 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

How to Sleep at Night
Elizabeth Harris

A witty and whip-smart novel about love, marriage, and family ties stretched thin by ambition.

290 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

How to Stand Up to a Dictator
Maria Ressa

The story of how democracy dies by a thousand cuts, and how an invisible atom bomb has exploded online that is killing our freedoms. It maps a network of disinformation—a heinous web of cause and effect—that has netted the globe: from Duterte's drug wars, to America's Capitol Hill, to Britain's Brexit, to Russian and Chinese cyber-warfare, to Facebook and Silicon Valley, to our own clicks and our own votes.

301 pp. Hardcover - Biography

How to Think Like Socrates: Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life in the Modern World
Donald J. Robertson

An accessible and informative guide to the life of one of the greatest thinkers in history, and the first book to focus on applying his ideas to our daily lives. Author Donald J. Robertson transports readers back to ancient Athens, expertly weaving together a page-turning account of a philosopher who eschewed material pleasures and stood by his beliefs, even in the face of controversy, with a steadfastness that ultimately resulted in his execution.

342 pp. Hardcover - Biography

How to Win at Travel
Brian Kelly

Turn your wanderlust into reality with expert strategies from Brian Kelly, the founder of The Points Guy—the leading voice in travel and loyalty programs—with this ultimate resource for everything from leveraging airline and credit card points to planning your dream itinerary.

320 pp. Hardcover - Travel

Hubris: The American Origins of Russia's War against Ukraine
Jonathan Haslam

A leading expert on US-Russian relations reveals how the United States and its European allies set the course for the war in Ukraine―and offers a sobering indictment of American foreign policy since the fall of the Soviet Union.

350 pp. Hardcover - Politics

Human Acts
Han Kang

An award-winning, controversial bestseller, Human Acts is a timeless, pointillist portrait of an historic event with reverberations still being felt today, by turns tracing the harsh reality of oppression and the resounding, extraordinary poetry of humanity.

Winner of the 2024 Novel Prize in Literature

226 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
Lucy Sante

An iconic writer’s lapidary memoir of a life spent pursuing a dream of artistic truth while evading the truth of her own gender identity, until, finally, she turned to face who she really was.

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York TimesThe Washington Postand Slate

226 pp. Hardcover - Biography

The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America
Stephanie Gorton

A riveting history about the little-known rivalry between Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett that profoundly shaped reproductive rights in America

458 pp. Hardcover - History

The Iliac Crest
Cristina Rivera Garza

Surreal and gothic, The Iliac Crest is a masterful excavation of forgotten Mexican women writers, illustrating the myriad ways that gendered language can wield destructive power.

136 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist
Richard Munson

The dramatic story of an ingenious man who explained nature and created a country.

240 pp. Hardcover - History

The Inquisition's Inquisitor: Henry Charles Lea of Philadelphia
Richard L. Kagan

The first comprehensive biography of Philadelphia’s Henry C. Lea (1825–1909): historian, publisher, political activist, and reformer.

364 pp. Hardcover - History

Instrument of War: Music and the Making of America's Soldiers
David Suisman

An original history of music in the lives of American soldiers.

358 pp. Hardcover - History

Irène
Pierre Lemaitre

Book #2 in the Commandant Camille Verhoeven Trilogy

452 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Isola
Allegra Goodman

A young woman and her lover are marooned on an island in this “lushly painted” (People) historical epic of love, faith, and defiance from the bestselling author of Sam.

Reese's Book Club Pick; National Bestseller 

346 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Italian Lakes: Walks & Tours
Rough Guides

This compact, pocket-sized Italian Lakes travel guidebook is ideal for travellers on shorter trips, who want to make sure they experience the destination’s highlights. The book includes highly practical, ready-made walks and tours that allow you to organise your short break in the Italian Lakes without losing time planning.

144 pp. Hardcover - Travel

Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
Rebecca Romney

From rare book dealer and guest star of the hit show Pawn Stars, a page-turning literary adventure that introduces readers to the women writers who inspired Jane Austen—and investigates why their books have disappeared from our shelves.

455 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

Jewish Country Houses
Juliet Carey (Editor), Abigail Green (Editor)

An exploration of the world of Jewish country houses, their architecture and collections, and the lives of the extraordinary men and women who created, transformed, and shaped them. Photographed by Hélène Binet.

351 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Kalaya's Southern Thai Kitchen
Nok Suntaranon, Natalie Jesionka

Bring the bold, spicy, beautiful world of Southern Thai cooking to your kitchen through recipes and stories from the James Beard Award–winning chef of Kalaya, as featured on Netflix’s Chef’s Table.

287 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Kills Well with Others
Deanna Raybourn

Four women assassins, senior in status—and in age—sharpen their knives for another bloody good adventure in this riotous follow-up to the New York Times bestselling sensation Killers of a Certain Age.

pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

The Lantern of Lost Memories
Sanaka Hiiragi

From acclaimed Japanese author Sanaka Hiigari comes a heartwarming, life-affirming novel about a magical photo studio, where people go after they die to view key moments from their life—and relive one precious memory before they pass into the afterlife.

199 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Last Dekrepitzer
Howard Langer

The Last Survivor of a small Jewish sect comes to America after World War II to live in a Black community in Mississippi in Langer's novel.

261 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Last Room on the Left
Leah Konen

The caretaker at an isolated mountain hotel finds herself fighting for her life—and sanity—in this twisty, addictive thriller.

325 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families
Judith Giesberg

Drawing from an archive of nearly five thousand letters and advertisements, the riveting, dramatic story of formerly enslaved people who spent years searching for family members stolen away during slavery.

309 pp. Hardcover - History

The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

“Elegantly written and magisterially researched” (Robert Service, author of A History of Modern Russia), the definitive story behind the self-destruction of the autocratic Romanov dynasty, by the world’s foremost expert.

255 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Last Twilight in Paris
Pam Jenoff

A Parisian department store, a mysterious necklace and a woman’s quest to unlock a decade-old mystery are at the center of this riveting novel of love and survival.

Instant New York Times Bestseller

325 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Last Whaler
Cynthia Reeves

The Last Whaler concerns the impact of humans on pristine environments, the isolation of mental illness, the sustenance of religious faith, and the solace of storytelling.

319 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Lazarus Man
Richard Price

In this electrifying novel, Richard Price, the author of Clockers and a writer on The Wiregives us razor-sharp anatomy of an ever-changing Harlem.

338 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Left Behind: A New Economics for Neglected Places
Paul Collier

From the bestselling author of The Bottom Billion, the fate of the poorest regions of the world–some of which exist in the richest nations–is examined.

293 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

Leonardo da Vinci: An Untraceable Life
Stephen J. Campbell

In this original and provocative book, Campbell examines the strangeness of Leonardo’s words and works, and the distinctive premodern world of artisans and thinkers from which he emerged.

308 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Let Me Explain You
Annie Liontas

An unforgettable novel about a Greek American family and its enigmatic patriarch from a significant new voice in contemporary literature. “Hilarious yet rich…This debut by Annie Liontas will touch you” (The New York Times).

344 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus
Emma Knight

A witty, atmospheric, and brilliantly told novel that offers compelling portraits of womanhood, motherhood and female friendship, along with the irresistible intrigue surrounding an extraordinary British family.

Read with Jenna Book Club Pick; Instant New York Times Bestseller

371 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Like Love: Essays and Conversations
Maggie Nelson

A momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson’s brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tributes, and critical essays, as well as several conversations with friends and idols, bring to life Nelson’s passion for dialogue and dissent.

336 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

Lille
Laurence Phillips

New from Bradt is the thoroughly updated fifth edition of Lille, the award-winning and critically acclaimed guidebook to this exciting, ever-changing and easily accessible city in Hauts-de-France – the ultimate destination for a European city break.

268 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Listen to Me: The Women of the Bible Speak Out
Cordelia Frances Biddle

Cordelia Frances Biddle’s Listen to Me: The Women of the Bible Speak Out envisions a feminist perspective for well-known narratives. Blending fire and humor, she reveals Eve, Ruth, Bathsheba, Queen Vashti, Delilah, et al, as real people possessing complex and turbulent inner lives.

Athenaeum Read with Us Book Club Pick

185 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Listening to Trees: George Nakashima, Woodworker
Holly Thompson

Illustrated by Toshiki Nakamura, a poetic and moving picture book biography celebrating the life and work of the visionary Japanese American woodworker George Nakashima.

 

48 pp. Hardcover - Youth

Living in Your Light
Abdellah Taïa

A story in praise of a woman, a fighter, a survivor from the award-winning French-Moroccan novelist known for humanizing North Africa’s otherwise marginalized characters—prostitutes and thieves, trans and gay people in a world where being LGBTQ+ can be a dangerous act.

Shortlisted for the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 2022.

pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost―and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail
Lina Zeldovich

A remarkable story of the scientists behind a long-forgotten and life-saving cure: the healing viruses that can conquer antibiotic resistant bacterial infections.

302 pp. Hardcover - Science

The Living Statue: A Legend
Günter Grass

A newly discovered and translated jewel of a story from the Nobel laureate. Translated from the German by Michael Hofmann.

Nobel Laureate

57 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Lochs and Legends
Andy the Highlander

A Scotsman’s guide to the extraordinary tapestry of the land, history, folklore and stories of his homeland.

308 pp. Hardcover - Travel

Lonely Planet: Australia
Sarah Reid, et. al

Discover popular and off the beaten track experiences from surfing the waves on Byron Bay's iconic beaches to watching little penguins waddle ashore at the famous Penguin Parade, and touring the famous rock art sites of Kakadu National Park with an Aboriginal guide.

928 pp. Hardcover - Travel

Lonely Planet: Iceland
Meena Thiruvengadam, Alexis Averbuck, Egill Bjarnason, Eygló Svala Arnarsdóttir

Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime to Iceland.

352 pp. Hardcover - Travel

Lonely Planet: Spain
Isabella Noble et al

Lonely Planet's Spain is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the country has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Admire the works of Gaudi in Barcelona, explore Moorish history in the Alhambra and sample tapas throughout the country; all with your trusted travel companion.

720 pp. Hardcover - Travel

Lonely Planet's Guide to Death, Grief and Rebirth
Anita Isalska, Joe Bindloss

This illuminating book reveals how cultures and communities around the world grieve their loved ones - with lessons we can all learn from to help us all live (and die) well.

237 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary
Victoria Amelina

Destined to be a classic, a poet’s powerful look at the courage of resistance. With a foreword by Margaret Atwood.

304 pp. Hardcover - Biography

The Lost and the Found: A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family, and Second Chances
Kevin Fagan

In the tradition of Stephanie Land and Matthew Desmond, a powerful and deeply reported narrative of homelessness, despair, and hope.

pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

The Lotus Shoes
Jane Yang

An empowering, uplifting tale of two women from opposite sides of society, and their extraordinary journey of sisterhood, betrayal, love and triumph.

355 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Louis Sullivan: An American Architect
Patrick F. Cannon

A gorgeous color depiction of every remaining structure designed by Louis Sullivan. Photographs by James Caulfield

288 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Malcolm Before X
Patrick Parr

Drawing upon interviews, correspondence, and nearly 2000 pages of never-before-used prison records, Malcolm Before X is the definitive examination of the prison years of civil rights icon Malcolm X. 

362 pp. Hardcover - History

Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl

A book for finding purpose and strength in times of great despair, the international best-seller is still just as relevant today as when it was first published.

165 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Mapmatics: A Mathematician's Guide to Navigating the World
Paulina Rowińska

Explore the surprising connections between math and maps—and the myriad ways they’ve shaped our world and us.

292 pp. Hardcover - Miscellaneous

The Marlow Murder Club
Robert Thorogood

A delightfully clever new mystery from creator of BBC One's hilarious murder mystery series Death in Paradise.

Lilian Jackson Braun Award; 2023 Edgar Award Nominee

282 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
Jane Alison

A singular and brilliant elucidation of literary strategies that also brings high spirits and wit to its original conclusions. It is a liberating manifesto that says, Let’s leave the outdated modes behind and, in thinking of new modes, bring feeling back to experimentation. It will appeal to serious readers and writers alike.

262 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

Memorial Days
Geraldine Brooks

A heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey towards peace, from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofHorse.

207 pp. Hardcover - Biography

The Memory Palace: True Short Stories of the Past
Nate DiMeo

Incredible true stories reveal strange new magic in American history in this wondrous first book from the creator of the award-winning podcast The Memory Palace.

313 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

Midnight and Blue
Ian Rankin

John Rebus spent his life as a cop putting Edinburgh's most deadly criminals behind bars. Now having been convicted of a homicide, he's joined them…

331 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Mies van der Rohe: An Architect in His Time
Dietrich Neumann

A landmark survey, offering a nuanced and deeply researched account of the career and life of the iconic modern architect.

438 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Milk Without Honey
Hanna Harms

In gorgeous, limited palette artwork, using contemplative images as well as informative charts, Hanna Harms brings us into the world of bees: their hives, their colonies, and their interactions with the global ecosystem. This is the perfect gift book for anyone concerned about climate change and the environment.

111 pp. Hardcover - Graphic Novel

The Mini Rough Guide to Salzburg
Daniel Stables

This mini pocket Salzburg travel guidebook is perfect for travellers looking for essential information about Salzburg. It provides details on key places and main attractions, along with a selection of itineraries, recommendations for restaurants and top tips on how to make the most of your trip.

144 pp. Hardcover - Travel

Mobilization Politics: Governing Philadelphia in the Early Twenty-First Century
Stephen J. McGovern

How grassroots activism transforms contemporary urban politics in Philadelphia and beyond.

443 pp. Hardcover - Politics

Mona Acts Out
Mischa Berlinski

An exuberant, darkly humorous novel by the National Book Award–nominated author of Fieldwork

 

303 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Mothers and Sons
Adam Haslett

A mother and son, estranged for years, must grapple with the shared secret that drove their lives apart in this enthralling story about family, forgiveness, and how a fleeting act of violence can change a life forever, by "one of the country's most talented writers" (Wall Street Journal)

323 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Movement: New York's Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car
Nicole Gelinas

A gripping account of how the automobile has failed NYC and how mass transit and a revitalized streetscape are vital to its post-pandemic recovery.

579 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

Mystery and Marvel: Philadelphia’s 1876 Centennial Exposition
John Henry Hepp IV

Using narratives from fair-goers, this book examines the technological enthusiasm of Victorian society at the 1876 Philadelphia World’s Fair and the resulting transition from agricultural republic to industrial empire.

136 pp. Hardcover - History

The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien
John Hendrix

From New York Times bestselling, award-winning creator John Hendrix comes The Mythmakers, a graphic novel biography of two literary lions—C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien—following the remarkable story of their friendship and creative fellowship, and how each came to write their masterworks

217 pp. Hardcover - Graphic Novel

The Neighbour's Secret
Sharon Bolton

Three teenage girls have vanished at the annual Gathering as they reach their sixteenth birthday. No one seems to be investigating. And a fourth girl begs Anna for help, fearing that she will be next to disappear. An unpredictable and wild page-turner, with shocks, surprises and a killer twist for a finale.

334 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

New York Sketches
E.B. White

E. B. White’s greatest stories, asides, essays, jokes, and tall tales about the city he arguably saw clearest, loved best, and skewered most mercilessly.

132 pp. Hardcover - Miscellaneous

Nice and the French Riviera
Rachel Ifans, Rough Guides

This compact, pocket-sized Nice and the French Riviera travel guidebook is ideal for travellers on shorter trips, who want to make sure they experience the destination's highlights and really get a flavor of the place. It includes ready-made walking and driving itineraries, with detailed directions, that allow you to organise your visit to Nice and the French Riviera without losing time planning.

144 pp. Hardcover - Travel

The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah

A #1 New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year, and soon to be a major motion picture, this unforgettable novel of love and strength in the face of war has enthralled a generation.

440 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

No Comfort for the Dead
R.P. O'Donnell

After witnessing a murder, a small-town librarian is forced to act when the local police arrest the wrong man, perfect for fans of Dervla McTiernan and Carlene O’Connor.

279 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

No One Gets to Fall Apart
Sarah LaBrie

From television writer and producer Sarah LaBrie, comes a poignant memoir about the love and resilience of a mother and daughter in the midst of mental illness.

213 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Not For Tourists Guide to London 2025
Not For Tourists

With details on everything from Big Ben to Brick Lane, this is the only guide to London that a native or traveler needs.

559 pp. Hardcover - Travel

The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins
Sam Reese (Editor)

An illuminating selection of writings on a wide variety of topics—everything from technique, music theory, and daily routine to spirituality and systemic racism—from the personal journals of Sonny Rollins, master of the tenor saxophone and “jazz’s greatest living improviser” (The New York Times).

152 pp. Hardcover - Miscellaneous

The Oligarch's Daughter
Joseph Finder

From the New York Times bestselling author of House on Fire, a breakneck thriller that marries the dynastic opulence of Succession with the tense and disorienting spycraft of The Americans.

438 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

On the Calculation of Volume (Book 1)
Solvej Balle

Utterly riveting, Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) is the grand opening of her speculative fiction septology, winner of the 2022 Nordic Council Literature Prize (Scandinavia’s most important literary award) for being “a masterpiece of its time.” 

Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Literature

160 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

One for Each Night: The Greatest Chanukah Stories of All Time
Several Authors

This rich medley of stories, poems, and essays features evocations of Chanukah by classic and contemporary authors including Sholom AleichemElie WieselS. Y. AgnonI. L. Peretz, Theodor Herzl, Emma Lazarus, Mark Strand, A. B. YehoshuaEmma GreenJoanna RakoffRebecca Newberger GoldsteinChaim Potok.

129 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Other One: Stories
Hasanthika Sirisena

Winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction. Set in Sri Lanka and America, the ten short stories in this debut collection feature characters struggling to contend with the brutality of a decades long civil war while also seeking security, love, and hope.

160 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Pennsylvania Railroad: The Long Decline, 1933–1968
Albert J. Churella

The final volume of Albert J. Churella's landmark series, The Pennsylvania Railroad, concludes the story of the iconic transportation company, covering its long decline from the 1930s to its merger with the New York Central Railroad in 1968.

905 pp. Hardcover - History

A Perfect Day to Be Alone
Nanae Aoyama

The English-language debut of a prize-winning Japanese author, this touching, subtly funny novel evokes the daily struggles and hopes of two women from different generations. Translated from the Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood.

148 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Persians
Sanam Mahloudji

A darkly funny, life-affirming debut novel following five women from a once illustrious Iranian family as they grapple with revolutions personal and political.

Longlisted for The Women’s Prize

371 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Philadelphia Magazines
Albert HenrySmyth

The Philadelphia Magazines by Albert Henry Smyth is a historical and literary study of the magazines published in Philadelphia during the 18th and 19th centuries. Smyth explores the role these periodicals played in shaping American culture, politics, and literature.

98 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

The Philosophy of Translation
Damion Searls

A deep dive into the nature of translation from one of its most acclaimed practitioners.

248 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

Picturing Plants: An Analytical History of Botanical Illustrations
Gill Saunders

This beautifully illustrated book explores the purpose and function of the whole range of botanical art, from early woodcut herbals and painted florilegia, botanical treatises and records of new discoveries, to gardening manuals, seed catalogs, and field guides for the amateur enthusiast.

152 pp. Hardcover - Miscellaneous

The Pivot Year
Brianna Wiest

Devote the next twelve months of your life to making measured and real change, beginning with your mindset. The Pivot Year is a book of 365 daily meditations on finding the courage to become who you’ve always wanted to be, from the internationally bestselling author of 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think and The Mountain Is You.

An international bestseller translated in more than a dozen languages

374 pp. Hardcover - Miscellaneous

Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America
Bernadette Atuahene

In the spirit of Evicteda property law scholar uses the stories of two grandfathers—one white, one Black—who arrived in Detroit at the turn of the twentieth century to reveal how racist policies weaken Black families, widen the racial wealth gap, and derive profit from pain. 

368 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

The Power and the Glory: Life in the English Country House Before the Great War
Adrian Tinniswood

Adrian Tinniswood reconstructs life in the country house during its golden age before the Great War, when Britain ruled over a quarter of the earth's population and its stately homes were at their most opulent. But change was on the horizon: the landed classes were being forced to grapple not only with new neighbors, but also with new social norms and expectations.

439 pp. Hardcover - History

Presumed Guilty
Scott Turow

Read Scott Turow’s new “unputdownable” courtroom drama from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Presumed Innocent, the phenomenon that redefined the legal thriller and is the basis for Apple TV+’s most-watched drama series ever.

536 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Punished
Ann-Helén Laestadius

A harrowing story—inspired by true events—of five Indigenous children forced to attend a government-run boarding school in 1950s Sweden, revealing the emotional scars they carry thirty years later.

433 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism
Paul Youngquist

Youngquist explores and assesses Sun Ra’s wide-ranging creative output—music, public preaching, graphic design, film and stage performance, and poetry—and connects his diverse undertakings to the culture and politics of his times, including the space race, the rise of technocracy, the civil rights movement, and even space-age bachelor-pad music.

346 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

The Queen of Poisons
Robert Thorogood

The Marlow Murder Club are about to face their most difficult case yet!

261 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers: Her Life, the Imperial Ideal, and the Politics and Turmoil That Shaped Her Extraordinary Reign
Anne Somerset

A riveting portrait of Queen Victoria and the ten prime ministers who headed British government during her sixty-three-year reign.

630 pp. Hardcover - History

Raising Philadelphia: The Making of America’s First Great City, 1750–1775
Justin McHenry

A wealth of stories showing why Philadelphia was America’s first great city in the years before the Revolution.

208 pp. Hardcover - History

Reagan: His Life and Legend
Max Boot

Son of the Midwest, movie star, and mesmerizing politician―America’s fortieth president comes to three-dimensional life in this gripping and profoundly revisionist biography.

Instant New York Times Bestseller; Best Books of 2024: The New YorkerThe Economist, Chicago Public Library

836 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Rental House
Weike Wang

From the award-winning author of Chemistrya sharp-witted, insightful novel about a marriage as seen through the lens of two family vacations

One of NPR's "Books We Love" 2024; Dakota Johnson's Teatime Pictures December Book Club Pick

215 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Rescuers: The Remarkable People Who Saved World Heritage
Nancy Moses

This book profiles some of the handful of people who rescued significant cultural treasures that would or may have been otherwise lost to humankind. Some, like Dr. Assad, were on a noble mission, but that is not always the case. Some are motivated by profit, fame, gratitude, or personal advancement.

177 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

The Rest Is Memory
Lily Tuck

The heartbreaking story of a young Catholic girl transported to Auschwitz becomes a Rashomon-like rondo by one of our greatest novelists.

116 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Revenge of the Librarians
Tom Gauld

Confront the spectre of failure, the wraith of social media, and other supernatural enemies of the author.

pp. Hardcover - Graphic Novel

Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
Malcolm Gladwell

Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand-new volume that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and revealing light.

Instant New York Times Bestseller

352 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

Reykjavík
David Leffman & James Proctor

This compact, pocket-sized Reykjavik travel guidebook is ideal for travellers on shorter trips and those trying to make the most of Reykjavik. It's light, easily portable and comes equipped with a pull-out map.

144 pp. Hardcover - Travel

The Rivals
Jane Pek

A witty and thought-provoking mystery that reimagines the spy story to explore the nature of relationships in a digital age: the follow-up to Jane Pek’s “thoroughly modern twist on classic detective fiction,” The Verifiers (New York Times Book Review)

One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Mystery Novels of 2024

404 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Rogues and Scholars: Boom and Bust in the London Art Market, 1945–2000
James Stourton

A colorful and fast-moving account of how postwar London became the global center of the art market--a story of Impressionist masterpieces, dodgy dealers, and ground-breaking financial transactions.

424 pp. Hardcover - History

Roman Year
André Aciman

The author of Call Me by Your Name returns with a deeply romantic memoir of his time in Rome while on the cusp of adulthood.

354 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Rosarita
Anita Desai

From “world-class writer” (The Washington Post) and three-time Booker finalist Anita Desai, an exquisitely written stunning exploration of love, place, memory, history, and the secrets between a mother and her daughter.

96 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Rough Guide to Dubai
Gavin Thomas

Coverage includes: Bur Dubai, Deira, the inner suburbs, Sheikh Zayed Road, Downtown Dubai, Jumeirah, Umm Suqeim and the Burj Al Arab, the Palm Jumeirah, Dubai Merina

pp. Hardcover - Travel

The Rough Guide to Germany
Rough Guides

This Germany guidebook is perfect for independent travellers planning a longer trip. It features all of the must-see sights and a wide range of off-the-beaten-track places.

880 pp. Hardcover - Travel

The Rough Guide to Guatemala
Rough Guides

Ideal for independent travellers, this guidebook to Guatemala, written by destination experts, combines must-see sights with hidden gems and offers essential tips for both planning and on-the-ground adventures. It's sustainably printed to ensure environmental responsibility.

368 pp. Hardcover - Travel

The Rough Guide to Korea
Norbert Paxton

Ideal for independent travellers, this guidebook to Korea, written by destination experts, combines must-see sights with hidden gems and offers essential tips for both planning and on-the-ground adventures.

400 pp. Hardcover - Travel

The Rough Guide to Morocco
Stuart Butler

The Rough Guide to Morocco includes practical tips on everything from the best-value hotels and restaurants to transport and the state of the roads. It covers Moroccan culture past and present, trekking, windsurfing and birdwatching.

560 pp. Hardcover - Travel

The Rough Guide to Poland
Rough Guides

This Poland guidebook is perfect for independent travellers planning a longer trip. It features all of the must-see sights and a wide range of off-the-beaten-track places.

488 pp. Hardcover - Travel

The Rough Guide to Southeast Asia on a Budget
Rough Guides

This Southeast Asia on a Budget guidebook is perfect for independent travellers planning a longer trip. It features all of the must-see sights and a wide range of off-the-beaten-track places.

960 pp. Hardcover - Travel

The Rough Guide to Tanzania & Zanzibar
Rough Guides

This Tanzania & Zanzibar guidebook is perfect for independent travellers planning a longer trip. It features all of the must-see sights and a wide range of off-the-beaten-track places. It also provides detailed practical information on preparing for a trip and what to do on the ground.

520 pp. Hardcover - Travel

Rough Guide: Geneva
Rough Guides

This compact, pocket-sized Geneva travel guidebook is ideal for travellers on shorter trips and those trying to make the most of Geneva. It’s light, easily portable and comes equipped with a pull-out map.

144 pp. Hardcover - Travel

Saints and Liars: The Story of Americans Who Saved Refugees from the Nazis
Debórah Dwork

A gripping history that plumbs the extraordinary stories of American relief and rescue workers during World War II.

231 pp. Hardcover - History

Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder
Matthew Pearl

Like David Grann and Stacy Schiff, Matthew Pearl unveils one of the most incredible yet little-known historical true stories, and the only known instance in history of an actual family of castaways. Save Our Souls asks us to consider who we might become if we found ourselves trapped on a deserted island.

International Bestseller

pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

Second Hand Love
Yamada Murasaki

The two stories in Second Hand Love mark the triumphant return of Yamada Murasaki, one of literary manga's most respected feminist voices. Translated by noted historian Ryan Holmberg, this edition includes an interview with the artist from the height of her career in 1985, where her wit and wisdom are on shimmering display.

Translated by Ryan Holmberg 

222 pp. Hardcover - Graphic Novel

Second-Order Preservation: Social Justice and Climate Action through Heritage Policy
Erica Avrami

A critical reassessment of historic preservation policies in the United States, Second-Order Preservation brings needed attention to the hierarchical underpinnings and effects of established preservation frameworks. Questioning the criteria by which value is ascribed to historic buildings and neighborhoods, Erica Avrami works to elucidate and transform how—and which—claims to place become codified in and reinforced through public policy.

235 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

Secret Milan
Massimo Polidoro

Discover a canal lock designed by Leonardo da Vinci as well as the secrets of his Last Supper, find out where Mussolini's hidden bunker lies, marry beneath frescoes by Tiepolo, visit artists houses usually closed to the public, see exceptional private collections...

397 pp. Hardcover - Travel

Seeking Shelter: A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in America
Jeff Hobbs

From the bestselling author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, a powerful portrayal of American homelessness that follows a single mother of six in Los Angeles courageously struggling to keep her family together and her children in school amidst the devastating housing crisis.

321 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world.

112 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

A Short History of Black Craft in Ten Objects
Robell Awake

Ten beautifully illustrated essays tell the stories of handcrafted objects and their makers, providing inspiration and insight into Black history and craftsmanship. Illustrated by Johnalynn Holland

144 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

A Short History of British Architecture: From Stonehenge to the Shard
Simon Jenkins

Jenkins shows that everyone is a consumer of architecture and makes the case for the importance of everyone learning to speak its language. A Short History of British Architecture is a celebration of British national treasures, a lament of their failures – and a call to arms.

311 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

The Silentiary
Antonio Di Benedetto

In post-WWII South America, a struggling writer embarks on a murderous thought experiment to help kickstart his career in this next tale of longing from the author of Zama.

166 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne
Kate Winkler Dawson

Acclaimed journalist, podcaster, andtrue-crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson tells the true story of the scandalous murder investigation that became the inspiration for both Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and the first true-crime book published in America.

307 pp. Hardcover - History

Sisters in Science: A Riveting Historical Account of Women in Science with a Powerful Message of Sisterhood
Olivia Campbell

The extraordinary true story of four women pioneers in physics during World War II and their daring escape out of Nazi Germany

384 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Six Treasures of the Spiral: Comics Formed Under Pressure
Matt Madden

The stories in Six Treasures of the Spiral: Comics Formed Under Pressure are inventive and wide-ranging, sometimes funny, occasionally sad, and always offbeat.

224 pp. Hardcover - Graphic Novel

Slavery After Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present
Mary Frances Berry

An acclaimed historian narrates the stories of newly emancipated children who were re-enslaved by white masters through apprenticeships and their parents fights to free them.

170 pp. Hardcover - History

Sleepless Night
Margriet de Moor

Margriet de Moor, the grande dame of Dutch literature, tells a gripping love story about endings and demise, rage and jealousy, knowledge and ambiguity—and the possibility of new beginnings.

1,222 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Small Rain
Garth Greenwell

A poet's life is turned inside out by a sudden, wrenching pain. The pain brings him to his knees, and eventually to the ICU. Confined to bed, plunged into the dysfunctional American healthcare system, he struggles to understand what is happening to his body, as someone who has lived for many years in his mind.

306 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Smoke Screen
Jorn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger

When the mother of a missing two-year-old girl is seriously injured in a suspected terrorist attack in Oslo, crime-fighting duo Blix and Ramm join forces to investigate the case, and things aren't adding up ... The second instalment in the addictive, atmospheric, award-winning Blix & Ramm series.

314 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Snapshot: Lisbon
Rick Steves

This slim guide excerpted from Rick Steves Portugal includes:

  • Rick's firsthand, up-to-date advice on Lisbon's best sights, restaurants, hotels, and more, plus tips to beat the crowds, skip the lines, and avoid tourist traps
  • Top sights and local experiences: Relax and people-watch at an Art Nouveau café, or take a trolley tour of the famed colorful hills. Wander tangled medieval streets and museums of ancient art, and sip delicious port with locals at an authentic fado bar
  • Helpful maps and self-guided walking tours to keep you on track
171 pp. Hardcover - Travel

Someone Like Us
Dinaw Mengestu

The son of Ethiopian immigrants seeks to understand a hidden family history and uncovers a past colored by unexpected loss, addiction, and the enduring emotional pull toward home.

The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

 

251 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Stained Glass Window: A Family History as the American Story, 1790-1958
David Levering Lewis

National Humanities Medal recipient and two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize David Levering Lewis’s own family history that shifts our understanding of the larger American story.

368 pp. Hardcover - Biography

State of Paradise
Laura van den Berg

A heart-racing fun house of uncanniness hidden in Florida’s underbelly from the celebrated Laura van den Berg.

One of Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2024. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Named a Best Book of 2024 by Vanity Fair, NPR, ELLE, and Kirkus. Longlisted for the 2024 Joyce Carol Oates Prize.

212 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Steps to Water: The Ancient Stepwells of India
Morna Livingston

Steps to Water traces the fascinating history of stepwells, from their Hindu origins, to their second flowering during Muslim rule, and eventual decline under British occupation. It also reflects on their current use, preservation, and place in Indian communities.

pp. Hardcover - Miscellaneous

The Stolen Queen
Fiona Davis

From New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis, an utterly addictive new novel that will transport you from New York City’s most glamorous party to the labyrinth streets of Cairo and back.

339 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Suicides
Antonio Di Benedetto

A reporter embarks on an investigation of a string of unconnected suicides—which then leads into an exploration of the phenomenon of suicide itself—in this elegant existential novel, the third and final volume of Antonio Di Benedetto’s Trilogy of Expectation. Translated by Esther Allen.

165 pp. Paperback - Fiction

The Summer Book
Tove Jansson

In The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer—its sunlight and storms—into twenty-two crystalline vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia’s grandmother, nearing the end of hers, as they spend the summer on a tiny unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland.

170 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Tell Me What I Am
Una Mannion

Two women wrenched apart by a family member’s disappearance must find a way back to each other in this haunting page-turner by the author of A Crooked Tree.

Winner of the Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger Award

277 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven
Ruben Reyes Jr.

An electrifying debut story collection about Central American identity that spans past, present, and future worlds to reveal what happens when your life is no longer your own.

Longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award; Finalist for The Story Prize; Finalist for the California Book Award; Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and the New American Voices Award.

221 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

There's No Turning Back
Alba De Céspedes

A coming-of-age novel that is as relevant today as it was nearly ninety years ago, There’s No Turning Back centers on eight women with radically different backgrounds who attend the same college in Rome. Some are there to study, others to escape a scandal, or keep a secret, and during their time there, they experience the challenges of love, work, and emancipation.

294 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

They Carried Us: The Social Impact of Philadelphia's Black Women Leaders
Allener M. Baker-Rogers, Fasaha M. Traylor

Meet some of Philadelphia’s fiercest black women leaders. They range from the first black woman known to be born in Philadelphia (1694)—who ran a ferry business during colonial times—to the woman whose childhood experiences led her to become a surgeon and medical advisor to celebrities.

620 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

The Third Rainbow Girl
Emma Copley Eisenberg

A stunning, complex narrative about the fractured legacy of a decades-old double murder in rural West Virginia—and the writer determined to put the pieces back together.

One of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2020

pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
Naomi Wood

For fans of American Housewifand the work of Lily King, a provocative, razor-sharp, and riotously entertaining story collection exploring the dark side of family and femininity.

245 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Three Days in June
Anne Tyler

A new Anne Tyler novel destined to be an instant classic: a socially awkward mother of the bride navigates the days before and after her daughter's wedding.

New York Times Bestseller

165 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Three Lives of Cate Kay
Kate Fagan

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo meets First Lie Wins in this electric, voice-driven debut novel about an elusive bestselling author who decides to finally confess her true identity after years of hiding from her past.

Reese's Book Club Pick

294 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Time of the Child
Niall Williams

From the author of This Is Happiness, a compassionate, life-affirming novel about the Christmas season that transforms the small Irish town of Faha.

287 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Tinicum & Eastwick: Environmental Justice and Racial Injustice in Southwest Philadelphia
Will Caverly

When plans to overhaul Southwest Philadelphia in the 1950s scheduled both the integrated neighborhood of Eastwick and the ecologically valuable Tinicum marshes to be razed, two grassroots movements took up the cause―battling eminent domain in the name of environmental conservation and economic injustice.

298 pp. Hardcover - History

The Titans of the Twentieth Century: How They Made History and the History They Made
Michael Mandelbaum

An engaging and original historical portrait of eight of the most influential political figures of the twentieth century: Woodrow Wilson, Lenin, Hitler, Churchill, FDR, Gandhi, David Ben-Gurion, and Mao.

338 pp. Hardcover - Biography

To Die For
David Baldacci

From a #1 New York Times bestselling author, the 6:20 Man returns, this time sent to the Pacific Northwest to aid in a complicated FBI case—and he’s about to come face-to-face with his nemesis, the girl on the train.  

 

418 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

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