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107 Days
Kamala Harris

For the first time, and with surprising and revealing insights, Kamala Harris tells the story of one of the wildest and most consequential presidential campaigns in American history.

304 pp. Hardcover - Politics

Alexander Calder: Modern From the Start
Cara Manes

Alexander Calder's work first appeared in the Museum of Modern Art's galleries in 1930, in the exhibition Painting and Sculpture by Living Americans. Calder cultivated friendships and working relationships with notable figures, including Alfred H. Barr Jr., the Museum's founding director, and James Johnson Sweeney, with whom he collaborated on his retrospective exhibition in 1943. His work is imprinted on MoMA's early history, not only for its material and conceptual innovation but also for its presence at significant moments, such as a mobile made to hang over the lobby's grand staircase on the occasion of the new Goodwin and Stone building (Lobster Trap and Fish Tail, which hangs there to this day); a candelabra to adorn the tables at a celebratory anniversary event; and a sculpture to fly off a flagpole to advertise the landmark exhibition Cubism and Abstract Art.

144 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Alias O. Henry: A Novel
Ben Yagoda

O. Henry, born William Sidney Porter, arrived in New York City fresh from the Ohio Penitentiary, where he had served three and a half years for embezzlement. It was the dawn of the twentieth century, a time of remarkable change when the city's physical presence was being altered by new skyscrapers and subways, and its character by waves of immigrants. The American magazine had just reached its pinnacle as an enterprise, and the short story was the most popular medium in entertainment. Porter was in the city to write. From his cell, he had already sold a number of stories to big magazines, and within five years of arriving in Manhattan, he would become the most successful fiction writer in the country. But he never--never--said anything about his prison experience, or, indeed, anything about his past life. Anything true, that is.--Provided by the publisher

279 pp. - Fiction

All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation
Elizabeth Gilbert

An essential, universally resonant new memoir from the #1 bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and Big Magic.

380 pp. Hardcover - Biography

An Almost Impossible Thing: The Radical Lives of Britain's Pioneering Women Gardeners
Fiona Davison

An Almost Impossible Thing follows six hitherto little-known women gardeners in the years before the First World War, and examines their lives in the context of suffragism, collectivism and Empire.

332 pp. Paperback - Biography

American Aurora: Environment and Apocalypse in the Life of Johannes Kelpius
Timothy Grieve-Carlson

American Aurora explores the impact of climate change on early modern radical religious groups during the height of the Little Ice Age in the seventeenth century. Hermetic, alchemical, and esoteric texts became crucial sources of religious meaning and perspective among radical Protestants during this period as they struggled to understand their changing climate and a cosmos that seemed to be declaring its own decline. In particular, American Aurora focuses on the life and legacy of Johannes Kelpius (1667-1707), an enormously influential but comprehensively misunderstood theologian who settled outside of Philadelphia from 1694 to 1707.

310 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Antifascism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Documentary in the 1960s
Julia Alekseyeva

"Leftist filmmakers of the 1960s revolutionized the art of documentary. Often inspired by the radical art of the Soviet 1920s, filmmakers in countries like France and Japan dared to make film form a powerful weapon in the fight against fascism, weaving fiction into nonfiction and surrealism with neorealism to rupture everyday ways of being, seeing, and thinking. Through careful readings of Matsumoto Toshio, Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker, Agnès Varda, Hani Susumu, and others, Julia Alekseyeva shows that avant-garde documentary films of the 1960s did not strive to inoculate the viewer with the ideology of Truth but instead aimed to unveil and estrange, so that viewers might approach capitalist, imperialist, and fascist media with critical awareness. Antifascism and the Avant-Garde thus provides a transnational ecology of antifascist art that resonates profoundly with our current age"-- Provided by publisher.

257 pp. - Miscellaneous

The Art of Vanishing
Morgan Pager

A stunningly original love story between a museum employee and the man in a masterpiece hanging on the walls—a breathtaking debut about time, art, and the enduring power of love.

292 pp. - Fiction

The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland
Michelle Young

A riveting and stylish saga set in Paris during World War II, The Art Spy uncovers how an unlikely heroine infiltrated the Nazi leadership to save the world's most treasured masterpieces.

390 pp. - Biography

As a Jew: Reclaiming Our Story from Those Who Blame, Shame, and Try to Erase Us
Sarah Hurwitz

In As a Jew, Hurwitz documents her quest to take back her Jewish identity, how she stripped away the layers of antisemitic lies that made her recoil from her own birthright and unearthed the treasures of Jewish tradition. With antisemitism raging worldwide, Hurwitz's defiant account of reclaiming the Jewish story and learning to live as a Jew, without apology, has never been timelier or more necessary.

308 pp. Hardcover - Miscellaneous

Audition
Katie Kitamura

One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilizing Möbius strip of a novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love.

National Bestseller

Shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize

197 pp. - Fiction

Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
Anne Applebaum

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, this is an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them.

209 pp. - Politics

Backroom Deals in Our Backyards: How Government Secrecy Harms Our Communities and the Local Heroes Fighting Back
Miranda S. Spivack

A groundbreaking look at how ordinary people are fighting back against their local and state governments to keep their communities safe, by an award-winning journalist.

Winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize

221 pp. - Politics

Backstage: Stories of a Writing Life
Donna Leon

"An engaging collection of stories and essays by the celebrated author of the internationally bestselling Guido Brunetti series, infused with her ever-present and delightful senses of humor and irony."-- Provided by publisher.

206 pp. Hardcover - Biography

A Beginner's Guide to Dying
Simon Boas

Lessons for all of us in how to approach life—from someone in the process of dying.

141 pp. - Biography

Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History
Moudhy Al-Rashid

Humanity’s earliest efforts at recording and drawing meaning from history reveal how lives millennia ago were not so different from our own.

 

327 pp. - History

The Black Family Who Built America: The McKissacks, Two Centuries of Daring Pioneers
Cheryl McKissack Daniel

The riveting story of the McKissack family—the founders of the leading Black design and construction firm in the United States, from its beginnings in the mid-1800s to its thriving status today—in a moving celebration of resilience and innovation.

263 pp. - Biography

Buckeye : A Novel
Patrick Ryan

In Bonhomie, Ohio, a stolen moment of passion, sparked in the exuberant aftermath of the Allied victory in Europe, binds Cal Jenkins, a man wounded not in war but by his inability to serve in it, to Margaret Salt, a woman trying to obscure her past.

A Read with Jenna Pick

 

452 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Calder: Sculpting Time
ed. by Carmen Giménez and Ana Mingot Comenge

This catalogue includes over 30 masterworks made between 1930 and 1960 Calder's most innovative, prolific years from his early abstractions or sphériques to a magnificent selection of mobiles, stabiles, and standing mobiles of various scales. It also features a large body of Calder's Constellations, a term proposed by Duchamp and James Johnson Sweeney for the artists beloved objects made from wood and wire in 1943, a time when sheet metal was in short supply due to World War II.

157 pp. - Art, Architecture & Design

The Catch
Yrsa Daley-Ward

The inaugural novel in the Well-Read Black Girl Books series, The Catch is a darkly whimsical tale of women daring to live and create with impunity.

336 pp. - Fiction

Cécé
Emmelie Prophète ; translated from the French by Aidan Rooney

Cécé La Flamme, as she's known by her loyal Facebook friends, captures photographs of still bodies. Figures scorched and bruised, left to the rubble of the Cité of Divine Power. When she posts an image of a corpse, Cécé's followers skyrocket. "Nothing got more attention than a good corpse that was nice and warm or already rotting." Just beside visions of rot and neglect, she posts pictures of her toes, gullies crisscrossing the cité, and her own lips painted blue. With every image, Cécé seeks control and wants to create a frank, intimate record of the terror in her cité. Cécé's world begins and ends with the cité - a slum peopled by gangs, yelping kids, grandmothers, junkies, and preachers.

213 pp. Paperback - Fiction

The Cemetery in Barnes
Gabriel Josipovici

"A short, intense mystery novel that begins in gentle elegy and ends in diabolism and - murder. Three plots, three time-scales, three relationships are tightly woven into a single work, with three main voices, as in an opera by Monteverdi, who provides the sound-track. The main voice is that of a translator who moves from London to Paris and then to Wales, the setting for an unexpected conflagration. The ending at once confirms and suspends the reader's darkest intuitions."--Provided by publisher.

101 pp. Paperback - Fiction

Circle of Days: A Novel
Ken Follett

An epic novel about the building of Stonehenge.

pp. Hardcover - Fiction

City Shapers: Stories of Immigrant Designers
Graciela Carrillo, Shahad Sadeq, Yu-Ngok Lo

The Immigrant Architects Coalition was created by Graciela Carrillo, Shahad Sadeq, and Yu-Ngok Lo to create a community that offers mentorship, advice, and valuable resources to our fellow immigrant designers/architects. This book is the first step in achieving that mission. Twenty-four immigrant professionals share their experiences as firm owners, American Institute of Architects leaders, and entrepreneurs. The stories shared in this book portray a common path in their journey to achieve a successful and meaningful career in the U.S. - back cover.

227 pp. - Art, Architecture & Design

Clown Town
Mick Herron

The ninth book in the series behind Slow Horses, an Apple original series now streaming on Apple TV+. "Old spies grow ridiculous, River. Old spies aren't much better than clowns." Or so David Cartwright, the late retired head of MI5, used to tell his grandson. He forgot to add that old spies can be dangerous, too, especially if they've fallen on hard times-as River Cartwright is about to learn the hard way.

337 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Club: Where American Women artists found refuge in Belle Époque Paris
Jennifer Dasal

In Belle Époque Paris, the Eiffel Tower was newly built, France was experiencing remarkable political stability, and American women were painting the town and gathering at a female-only Residence known as The American Girls' Club in Paris. Opened in 1893, The Club was the center of expatriate living and of dedication to a calling in the fine arts, and singularly harbored a generation of independent, talented, and driven American women.

316 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Coming Up Short: A Memoir of America
Robert B. Reich

"From political economist, cabinet member, beloved professor, media presence, and bestselling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, a deeply-felt, compelling memoir of growing up in a baby-boom America that made progress in certain areas, fell short in so many important ways, and still has lots of work to do. A thought-provoking, principled, clear-eyed chronicle of the culture, politics, and economic choices that have landed us where we are today-with irresponsible economic bullies and corporations with immense wealth and lobbying power on top, demagogues on the rise, and increasing inequality fueling anger and hatred across the country. "-- Provided by publisher.

394 pp. Hardcover - Biography

The contemporary Garden
commissioning editor: Victoria Clarke

A stunning celebration of contemporary gardens across the globe, created by the world's leading designers. This inspirational book features 300 extraordinary gardens created from the late 1990's to the present day. The Contemporary Garden showcases the beauty of the 21st-century garden, and gives fascinating insights into the work of today's designers, demonstrating how our evolving aesthetic forges strong connections to the world around us.

335 pp. Hardcover - Nature

Culpability
Bruce Holsinger

hen the Cassidy-Shaws' autonomous minivan collides with an oncoming car, seventeen-year-old Charlie is in the driver's seat, with his father, Noah, riding shotgun. In the back seat, tweens Alice and Izzy are on their phones, while their mother, Lorelei, a world leader in the field of artificial intelligence, is absorbed in her work. Yet each family member harbors a secret, implicating them each in the accident.-- Dust jacket flap.

340 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival
Stephen Greenblatt

The story of how Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare's greatest rival, leveraged his classical education to ignite an explosion of English literature, nourished the literary talent of Shakespeare and challenged societal norms with his transgressive genius.

334 pp. Hardcover - History

The Death of Us
Lori Rader-Day

From the award-winning author of Death at Greenway and The Lucky One comes a chilling suspense novel in which the discovery of a submerged car in a murky pond reveals betrayals and family secrets that will tear a small town apart.

370 pp. - Fiction

Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television
Todd S Purdum

An illuminating biography of Desi Arnaz, the visionary, trailblazing Cuban American who revolutionized television and brought laughter to millions as Lucille Ball’s beloved husband on I Love Lucy, leaving a remarkable legacy that continues to influence American culture today.

355 pp. - Biography

The Devil Reached Toward the Sky : An Oral History of the Making & Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb
Garrett M. Graff

On the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, the Pulitzer Prize finalist whose work is 'oral history at its finest' (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) delivers an epic narrative of the atomic bomb's creation and deployment, woven from the voices of hundreds of scientists, generals, soldiers, and civilians.

567 pp. Hardcover - History

The Devil Wears Rothko
Barry Avrich

The Devil Wears Rothko charts the explosive demise of Knoedler Gallery, one of New York’s oldest and most prestigious art galleries, with detailed and salacious insight into the art fraud scandal of the century.

222 pp. - Art, Architecture & Design

Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations
Sam Kean

From “one of America’s smartest and most charming writers” (NPR), an archaeological romp through the entire history of humankind—and through all five senses—from tropical Polynesian islands to forbidding arctic ice floes, and everywhere in between.

452 pp. - Science

The Disenlightenment: Politics, Horror, and Entertainment
David Mamet

One of America's greatest living literary legends invites you think for yourself in this compelling narrative of manipulation, power, and the human condition.

Instant New York Times Bestseller

238 pp. - Politics

The Elements: A Novel
John Boyne

From bestselling author John Boyne, a gripping and profound exploration of guilt, blame, trauma, and the human capacity for redemption. In The Elements, acclaimed Irish novelist John Boyne has created an epic saga that weaves together four interconnected narratives, each representing a different perspective on the enabler, the accomplice, the perpetrator, and the victim.

483 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong

Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.

Oprah's Book Club Pick; Instant New York Times Bestseller

402 pp. - Fiction

Encounters: Denise Scott Brown Photographs
Izzy Kornblatt (Edtor)

The first publication dedicated to the perceptive photographic oeuvre of one of the most important postwar architects and co-author of the influential Learning from Las Vegas

433 pp. - Art, Architecture & Design

End Game
Jeffrey Archer

London, 2012. The eyes of the world are on Britain as the country prepares to host the Olympic Games. But the glare of the spotlight makes London a target for some of the most dangerous people on earth. And the moment the bid is won, an international conspiracy is set in motion to unleash a devastating attack that will leave the world in chaos. One man stands between triumph and disaster--Commander William Warwick, heading up Scotland Yard's elite team.

371 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Endling
Maria Reva

Set in Ukraine, an eccentric scientist breeding rare snails crosses paths with sisters posing as members of the marriage industry to find their activist mother. As Russia invades, they embark on a wild journey with kidnapped bachelors and a last-of-its-kind snail. This darkly comic novel explores survival, love, and hope in times of encroaching darkness.

Longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize

338 pp. - Fiction

Ethical Educational Leadership in Turbulent Times : (Re)solving Moral Dilemmas
Joan Poliner Shapiro, Steven Jay Gross, and Susan H. Shapiro

Educational leaders not only face moral and ethical decisions regarding their classrooms, schools, districts, and education institutions, but they also must consider the complexities and threats that impact their communities. Amidst the ongoing challenges of pandemics and natural disasters, this process is exceptionally daunting. Ethical Educational Leadership in Turbulent Times is an engaging, case-study-based text that assists leaders in their ethical decision-making processes during a time of turbulence and uncertainty.

Gift of Steven Jay Gross

264 pp. Paperback - Miscellaneous

Everything Will Swallow You
Tom Cox

"Eric and Carl live in Dorset in a small white cottage under the shadow of a big cliff. Eric sells old records and antiques. Carl cooks, cleans and crochets. Nearing 70, Eric is a lifelong accumulator of obscure objects whose easygoing, chaotic approach to life masks some of the unaddressed sadness of his past. The significantly younger Carl is an old soul who has a sophisticated emotional intelligence and likes swimming, mid-century female novelists, fibre arts and Dolly Parton. If you passed them on a walk, you may not pay them much attention. Most likely you would see Carl's long floppy ears, tail and fur and mistake him for a dog. The story of Eric and Carl's friendship spans 21 years: a constant anchor in a changing world."--Publisher.

330 pp. - Fiction

Exit Zero
Marie-Helene Bertino

Twelve delightfully strange, haunting stories from the acclaimed, oracular author of Beautyland

191 pp. - Fiction

Fashion & Interiors: A Gendered Affair
Romy Cockx, Robin Schuldenfrei, Lara Steinhäußer

Exploring fashion and interior design through a gender lens, from the Victorian era to contemporary designers like Martin Margiela and Raf Simons

223 pp. - Art, Architecture & Design

The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780
Rick Atkinson

In the second volume of the landmark American Revolution trilogy by the bestselling author of The British Are Coming, George Washington’s army fights on the knife edge between victory and defeat.

854 pp. - History

First Air Voyage in the United States: The Story of Jean-Pierre Blanchard
Alexandra Wallner

Recounts the voyage of an eighteenth-century French aeronaut by hot air balloon from Philadelphia to Woodbury, New Jersey, in 1793.

pp. Hardcover - Youth (nonfiction)

Flashes of Brilliance: The Genius of Early Photography and How It Transformed Art, Science, and History
Anika Burgess

The story of the wildest experiments in early photography and the wild people who undertook them.

322 pp. - History

Flashlight
Susan Choi

A novel tracing a father’s disappearance across time, nations, and memory, from the author of Trust Exercise.

Shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize

2025 National Book Awards Longlist for Fiction

450 pp. - Fiction

Flesh
David Szalay

From Booker Prize finalist and “the shrewdest writer on contemporary masculinity we have” (Esquire), a “captivating...hypnotic...virtuosic” (The Baffler) novel about a man whose life veers off course due to a series of unforeseen circumstances.

Shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize

353 pp. - Fiction

A Flood of Pictures: The Formation of a Picture Culture in the United States
Michael Leja

Explores how the widespread circulation of pictures reshaped a nineteenth-century US culture that was accustomed to printed and spoken words

394 pp. - History

The Girl with Ice in Her Veins
Karin Smirnoff

Lured back to a lawless town full of predators disguised as saviors and foes disguised as friends, forced to face down their own troubling pasts and those of their loved ones, Salander and Blomkvist must untangle a history of violence before it's too late. The Girl with Ice in Her Veins is a twisty, vertiginous, hard-hitting thriller that breathes new life into Stieg Larsson's epic series and unforgettable characters-- Provided by publisher.

A Lisbeth Salander novel, continuing Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series

365 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990
Jonathan Mahler

A sweeping chronicle of four tumultuous years in 1980s New York that changed the city forever—and anticipated the forces that would soon divide the nation—from the bestselling author of Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning

451 pp. - History

The Golden Age of Italian Jews: 1848-1938
Gino Segrè

The Golden Age of Italian Jews by Gino Segrè covers the nine decades from 1848 to 1938 during which Italian Jews rose from their socially constrained ghetto life to acquire full civil rights and eventually to occupy commanding positions in Italian society.-- Provided by publisher.

Gino Segrè is a past winner of the Athenaeum Literary Award for his book (with Bettina Hoerlin)
The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age

pp. Paperback - History

Grand Finales: The Creative Longevity of Women Artists
Susan Gubar

One of our most formidable literary critics explores how nine women artists flourished creatively in their final acts.

368 pp. - Art, Architecture & Design

Grave Dealings: Body Snatching in Philadelphia, 1762-1883
Tim Dewysockie

 Grave Dealings explores the social, cultural, practical, and legal aspects of body snatching in America’s first capital city and relates it to the continuing ethical struggles that surround the treatment of human remains to this day

238 pp. Paperback - Miscellaneous

The Gravedigger's Almanac: A Novel
Oliver Pötzsch ; translated from the German by Lisa Reinhardt

Vienna, 1893. A gravedigger at the city's famous Central Cemetery, Augustin Rothmayer is a highly educated oddball who finds solace among the dead and in drafting the manuscript of the first almanac of his profession. But his fragile peace is disturbed when young inspector Leopold von Herzfeldt, an ambitious transfer from Graz, arrives in desperate need of an expert in death. And no one knows the subject better than Augustin Rothmayer. A superstitious killer is on the loose.

398 pp. Paperback - Mystery/Thriller

Great Disasters: A Novel
Grady Chambers

Exploring the beauty, hope, and humor that can be found even in moments of deep loneliness and devastation, Grady Chambers' Great Disasters moves between memories of high school and early adulthood to consider friendship, first love, patriotism, protest, addiction, and more.

208 pp. Paperback - Fiction

The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community
Ray Oldenburg

Third places,' or 'great good places,' are all those spots where people gather, put aside the concerns of home and work (our first and second places), and hang out simply for the pleasures of good company and lively conversation. Third places are the heart of a community's social vitality, and have long been central to grassroots democracy. Author Ray Oldenburg is renowned for coining the term 'third place.' In this book, he portrays, probes, and promotes these great good places: coffee houses, cafés, bookstores, hair salons, bars, bistros, and more, both past and present - and offers a vision for their revitalization.

354 pp. - Miscellaneous

He Who Whispers
John Dickson Carr

"When Miles Hammond is invited to a meeting of the Murder Club in London, he is met instead with just two other guests and is treated to a strange tale of an impossible crime in France from years before-the murder of a man on a tower with only one staircase, under watch at the time the murder took place. With theories of levitating vampires abounding, the story comes home to Miles when he realizes that the librarian he has just hired for his home is none other than Fay Seton, a woman whose name still echoes from the heart of this bizarre and unsolved murder of the past"-- Provided by publisher.

272 pp. Paperback - Mystery/Thriller

Heart the Lover: A Novel
Lily King

Written with the superb wit and emotional sensitivity fans and critics of Lily King have come to adore, Heart the Lover is a deeply moving story that celebrates love, friendship, and the transformative nature of forgiveness.

249 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization
Bill McKibben

In Here Comes the Sun, climate activist Bill McKibben explores the rapid rise of solar and wind energy as a powerful, accessible alternative to fossil fuels. Highlighting global progress and grassroots efforts, he shows how renewable energy offers not just a path out of the climate crisis but a chance to build a fairer, more democratic world. Despite resistance from the fossil fuel industry, McKibben argues that this solar revolution is our best hope for a sustainable future.

212 pp. Hardcover - Science

Herzog & de Meuron
essays by Ricky Burdett et al.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Herzog and de Meuron, Royal Academy of Arts, 14 July - 15 October 2023.

Architects Herzog & de Meuron designed the building in Calder Gardens, which opened in September 2025 in Philadelphia.

159 pp. Paperback - Art, Architecture & Design

History Matters
David McCullough

In this posthumous collection of thought-provoking essays--many never published before--Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and bestselling author David McCullough affirms the value of history, how we can be guided by its lessons, and the enduring legacy of American ideals. History Matters brings together selected essays by beloved historian David McCullough, some published here for the first time, written at different points over the course of his long career but all focused on the subject of his lifelong passion: the importance of history in understanding our present and future.

169 pp. - History

I Know How This Ends
Holly Smale

If you knew how your life would turn out, what would you change now?

The second brilliantly uplifting and page-turning novel from the multi-million bestselling author of Geek Girl and Reese's Book Club Pick Cassandra in Reverse.

358 pp. - Fiction

I Regret Almost Everything
Keith McNally

The entertaining, irreverent, and surprisingly moving memoir by the visionary restaurateur behind such iconic New York institutions as Balthazar and Pastis.

New York Times Bestseller

303 pp. - Biography

I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children, and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust
Julian Borger

This gripping family memoir of grief, courage, and hope tells the hidden stories of children who escaped the Holocaust, building connections across generations and continents.

285 pp. - Biography

I'm Not Your Muse: Uncovering the Overshadowed Brilliance of Women Artists & Visionaries
Lori Zimmer

An illuminating exploration of 31 incredible women—across art, architecture, dance, literature, and more—whose culture-defining contributions have, until now, been overshadowed by their role as "muses" to history's better-known men.

188 pp. - Art, Architecture & Design

Ice's End
P. Finian Reilly

"In 2123, the world is dying--and Antarctica's last remaining glaciers are the final source of fresh water. Controlled by the all-powerful StarCross Corporation, Spigot--the continent's largest water extraction facility--feeds a desperate planet. But off this continent's frigid shore lies a secret that could change everything. Roscoe Slake thought his internship with StarCross would be his ticket off-world, away from Earth's collapsing ecosystems and corporate rule. Instead, he's stuck in Spigot's archives, combing through centuries-old documents--until he stumbles upon a forgotten record from the Ross Antarctic Expedition of 1839-43. What Roscoe discovers could upend the balance of power and make fresh water plentiful again--if he survives long enough to expose it"-- Provided by publisher.

342 pp. Paperback - Fiction

Ida B. Wells: Journalist, Advocate & Crusader for Justice
Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Meet journalist and activist Ida B. Wells in this second vibrant middle grade biography in the Rise. Risk. Remember. Incredible Stories series spotlighting Black women who left their mark on history from acclaimed and New York Times bestselling author Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Candace Buford.

136 pp. - Youth (nonfiction)

The Impossible Fortune
Richard Osman

 

A Thursday Murder Club Mystery

368 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

The Invention of Design: A Twentieth-Century History
Maggie Gram

From a brilliant cultural historian, “a secret history of the twentieth century” (Louis Menand) told through the story of design and its utopian promises.

322 pp. - Art, Architecture & Design

It's Me They Follow: A Novel
Jeannine A. Cook

It's Me They Follow is a meta-romance about love in the time of mass upheaval and uncertainty. It follows The Shopkeeper, a bookseller and reluctant matchmaker. Helping others find love through books comes easily for The Shopkeeper, except when it comes to finding someone for herself. She secretly yearns for her first customer, ME, who took both her most prized book and a piece of her heart when he left. But just when she begins to lose hope, she discovers her magical bookshop may hold the key to her own happily ever after as well.

Jeannine A. Cook is the founder and owner of Harriett’s Bookshop in Philadelphia.

241 pp. - Fiction

Joyspan: The Art and Science of Thriving in Life's Second Half
Dr. Kerry Burnight

"Dr. Kerry shares her popular philosophy and tools in a comprehensive resource that moves readers from fear to peaceful confidence. [Her] insights, along with those of her inspiring 95- year-old mother Betty, are based upon a profound truth: the key to good longevity isn't the length of your life, it's the quality of your life. Books that advance lifespan and 'healthspan' don't address the whole picture. Dr. Kerry introduces readers to the ... concept of 'joyspan' based on the science of well-being, contentment, connection, meaning, growth, choice, and purpose"-- Provided by publisher.

235 pp. Hardcover - Miscellaneous

Katabasis: A Novel
R.F. Kuang

"Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality: her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world. That is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault. Grimes is now in Hell, and she's going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams.... Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the very same conclusion. With nothing but the tales of Orpheus and Dante to guide them, enough chalk to draw the Pentagrams necessary for their spells, and the burning desire to make all the academic trauma mean anything, they set off across Hell to save a man they don't even like. But Hell is not like the storybooks say, Magick isn't always the answer, and there's something in Alice and Peter's past that could forge them into the perfect allies...or lead to their doom"-- Provided by publisher.

541 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Land in Winter
Andrew Miller

December 1962, the West Country. Local doctor Eric Parry, mulling secrets, sets out on his rounds, while his pregnant wife sleeps on in the warmth of their cottage. Across the field, funny, troubled Rita Simmons is also asleep, her head full of images of a past life her husband prefers to ignore. He's been up for hours, tending to the needs of the small dairy farm where he hoped to create a new version of himself, a project that's already faltering. There is affection - if not always love - in both homes. But when the ordinary cold of an English December gives way to violent blizzards - a true winter, the harshest in living memory - the two couples find their lives beginning to unravel. Where do you hide when you can't leave home? And where, in a frozen world, can you run to?

Shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize

373 pp. - Fiction

Last Miracle: Jewish Stories
Stefan Zweig ; translated from the German by Anthea Bell and Eden and Cedar Paul

"This collection from one of the great pre-war writers, himself a member of Europe's Jewish diaspora, highlights the precarious position that Jewish people have occupied throughout millennia, in stories that move across centuries and nations but show the unchanging pressure of outsider status. But these stories are about individuals, too--in Zweig's treatment, the particular passions of particular hearts will always blaze out brightly against the levelling forces of history"-- Provided by publisher.

286 pp. Paperback - Fiction

Last Murder at the End of the World
Stuart Turton

"Outside the island, there is nothing: the world was destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched. On the island, it is idyllic. One hundred and twenty-two villagers and three scientists, living in peaceful harmony. The villagers are content to fish, farm, and feast, to obey their nightly curfew, to do what they're told by the scientists. Until, to the horror of the islanders, one of their beloved scientists is found brutally stabbed to death. And then they learn that the murderer has triggered a lowering of the security system around the island, the only thing that was keeping the fog at bay. If the murder isn't solved within one hundred and seven hours, the fog will smother the island--and everyone on it. But the security system has also wiped everyone's memories of exactly what happened the night before, which means that someone on the island is a murderer--and they don't even know it..."--Page 4 of cover.

412 pp. - Fiction

The Last Titans : Churchill and De Gaulle
Richard Vinen
388 pp. - History

The List of Suspicious Things
Jennie Godfrey

Maggie Thatcher is prime minister, drainpipe jeans are in, and Miv is convinced that her dad wants to move their family Down South. Because of the murders. Leaving Yorkshire and her best friend Sharon simply isn't an option, no matter the dangers lurking round their way; or the strangeness at home that started the day Miv's mum stopped talking. Perhaps if she could solve the case of the disappearing women, they could stay after all? So, Miv and Sharon decide to make a list: a list of all the suspicious people and things down their street. People they know. People they don't. But their search for the truth reveals more secrets in their neighbourhood, within their families - and between each other - than they ever thought possible. What if the real mystery Miv needs to solve is the one that lies much closer to home?

455 pp. - Mystery/Thriller

Living Cities: Three Centuries of Park Systems
Matthew Skjonsberg

This book demonstrates the ecological and social impact of park systems and highlights the diverse challenges that communities face when implementing such projects. At the same time, it encourages a reevaluation of civic design as an intergenerational practice of urban design.

287 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny: A Novel
Kiran Desai

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is the sweeping tale of two young people navigating the many forces that shape their lives: country, class, race, history, and the complicated bonds that link one generation to the next. A love story, a family saga, and a rich novel of ideas, it is the most ambitious and accomplished work yet by one of our greatest novelists.

Shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize

670 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Los Angeles Before the Freeways: Images of an Era 1850–1950
Arnold Hylen

Discover of a lost Los Angeles from an era before the freeways in this beautiful coffee table book from iconic architectural photographer Arnold Hylen.

191 pp. - Art, Architecture & Design

Love Forms
Claire Adam

Love Forms is a powerfully moving story of a woman in search of herself-a novel that rings with heartfelt empathy through the passages of a mother's life, depicting the enduring bonds of love, family, and home.

Longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize

274 pp. - Fiction

Lyrebird
Jane Caro

Lyrebirds are brilliant mimics, so if they mimic a woman screaming in terror and begging for her life, they have witnessed a crime. But how does a young, hung over PHD student and a wet-behind-the-ears new detective, convince anyone that a native bird can be a reliable witness to a murder, especially when there is no body and no missing person? And what happens when they turn out to be right?

360 pp. - Mystery/Thriller

The Man Who Would Be King: Mohammed bin Salman and the Transformation of Saudi Arabia
Karen Elliott House

Based on exclusive interviews, an eye-opening biography of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), head of the House of Saud, the calculating ruler of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and a central Middle East power broker.

289 pp. - Biography

Managing the Magic of Old Places Crafting Public Policies for People-Centered Historic Preservation
Jeremy C. Wells

From 1849 to the early 1980s, fewer than one hundred highly educated, white, European and American men created what became today's US federal historic preservation policy. Jeremy C. Wells argues that the orthodox historic preservation doctrine that this lineage formulated has too long dominated federal policy and watered down the richness of laypeople's relationships to their own heritage. Instead, Wells envisions a more just and inclusive public preservation policy grounded in community-based participatory practice and the social sciences-especially environmental psychology-to understand and actualize the experiential work of preservation and the "magic of old places" that is its object.

266 pp. Paperback - Art, Architecture & Design

A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst

Maurice and Maralyn make an odd couple. He’s a loner, awkward and obsessive; she’s charismatic and ambitious. But they share a horror of wasting their lives. And they dream – as we all dream – of running away from it all. What if they quit their jobs, sold their house, bought a boat, and sailed away?

Most of us begin and end with the daydream. But in June 1972, Maurice and Maralyn set sail. For nearly a year all went well, until deep in the Pacific, a breaching whale knocked a hole in their boat and it sank beneath the waves.

What ensues is a jaw-dropping fight to survive in the wild ocean, with little hope of rescue. Alone together for months in a tiny rubber raft, starving and exhausted, Maurice and Maralyn have to find not only ways to stay alive but ways to get along, as their inner demons emerge and their marriage is put to the greatest of tests. Although they could run away from the world, they can’t run away from themselves.

Taut, propulsive, and dazzling, A Marriage at Sea pairs an adrenaline-fueled high seas adventure with a gutting love story that asks why we love difficult people, and who we become under the most extreme conditions imaginable.--From the Publisher

pp. Hardcover - Biography

Matisse in Morocco: A Journey of Light and Color
Jeff Koehler

Matisse in Morocco tells the story of the artist's groundbreaking time in Tangier and how it altered Matisse's development as a painter and indelibly marked his work for the next four decades.

311 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Mercy: A Novel
Joan Silber

"Following a bold cast of characters across decades, and set against the changing social and sexual mores from the 1970s onward, Mercy is Silber's most ambitious and expansive novel yet, proving once again how we are all connected in mysterious and often unknown ways"-- Provided by publisher.

240 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America
Scott Ellsworth

From the author of The Ground Breaking, longlisted for the National Book Award, comes a riveting saga of the last year of the Civil War—and a revealing new account of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

320 pp. - History

The Mini Rough Guide to Istanbul & the Aegean Coast
Daniel Stables

"This mini pocket Istanbul and the Aegean Coast travel guidebook is perfect for travellers looking for essential information about Istanbul and the Aegean Coast. 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."--From the publisher.

144 pp. Paperback - Travel

The Mini Rough Guide to London
Libby Davies

This mini pocket London travel guidebook is perfect for travellers looking for essential information about London. 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.

152 pp. - Travel

Misinterpretation
Ledia Xhoga

Ruminative and propulsive, Ledia Xhoga’s debut novel, Misinterpretation, interrogates the darker legacies of family and country, and the boundary between compassion and self-preservation.

Longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize; Winner of the 2024 New York City Book Award; Finalist for the 2024 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

287 pp. - Fiction

Modern Comfort Food: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook
Ina Garten

A collection of all-new soul-satisfying dishes from America’s favorite home cook!

256 pp. - Miscellaneous

Mona's Eyes
Thomas Schlesser

Fifty-two that's all the time Mona has left to learn about beauty. Every Wednesday, Mona's grandfather picks her up after school and takes her to see a great work of art. Just one. A different masterpiece every Wednesday for a year. Fifty-two weeks of consummate beauty. Fifty-two weeks of visits to the museum before Mona loses her sight forever.

translated from the French by Hildegarde Serle

446 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Mother Mary Comes to Me
Arundhati Roy

A raw and deeply moving memoir from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness that traces the complex relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, a fierce and formidable force who shaped Arundhati’s life both as a woman and a writer.-- From the Publisher

Finalist for the Kirkus Prize

330 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Mounted : On Horses, Blackness, and Liberation
Bitter Kalli

Joining the growing Black creative movement currently refashioning horses and cowboy imagery, a thoughtful, probing exploration of the shared history of Blackness and horses which reveals what its image can teach us about nationhood, race, and culture.

Drawing on their personal history as a former urban equestrian, Black queer person, and child of Jamaican and Filipino immigrants, essayist and art critic Bitter Kalli contends the horse should be regarded as a critical source of power and identity in Black life.-- From the Publisher

175 pp. Hardcover - Miscellaneous

A Murder in Paris: A Novel
Matthew Blake

An expert in memory must uncover the truth about her family's wartime past in this dazzling psychological thriller from the #1 international bestselling author of Anna O. Olivia Finn is a memory expert at Charing Cross Hospital in London. One night, she receives an urgent call from the police at the Hotel Lutetia on Paris's famous Left Bank. Olivia's French grandmother, Josephine Benoit, has appeared at the Lutetia in a distressed state claiming she once committed a murder in the hotel at the end of the Second World War. Traveling to Paris, Olivia finds her grandmother confused. But Josephine insists it is a recovered memory from the past. More disturbingly, hotel records show that a woman did die in that room of the Lutetia in 1945. Could her story really be true?

354 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Murder on a Winter's Night: Ten Classic Crime Stories for Christmas
edited by Cecily Gayford

The halls are decked, the mistletoe hung, snow falling gently outside the window - and in the shadows, evil waits for darkness to fall. So draw up a chair, throw another log on the fire, and allow ten of history's greatest crime writers to surprise, delight and chill you to the bone with classic winter mysteries full of twists, turns, and treachery.

198 pp. Paperback - Mystery/Thriller

My Friends
Fredrik Backman

#1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a complete stranger’s life twenty-five years later.

436 pp. - Fiction

My Garden: A Year of Design and Experimentation
Jacqueline van der Kloet

A month-by-month tour of the renowned naturalistic garden designer Jacqueline van der Kloet's home garden—a visual feast of perennials, trees, grasses, shrubs, and bulbs that have inspired a generation of gardeners and designers.

323 pp. - Nature

My Other Heart
Emma Nanami Strenner

A missing child, two girls in search of their true identities--a stunning novel of mothers, daughters and best friends.

A Read with Jenna Pick

406 pp. - Fiction

The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer
Ragnar Jónasson ; translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb

One winter evening, bestselling crime author Elín S. Jónsdóttir goes missing. There are no clues to her disappearance and it is up to young detective Helgi to crack the case before its leaked to the press. As Helgi interviews the people closest to her-a publisher, an accountant, a retired judge-he realizes that Elín's life wasn't what it seemed. In fact, her past is even stranger than the fiction she wrote. As the case of the missing crime writer becomes more mysterious by the hour, Helgi must uncover the secrets of the writer's very unexpected life.

313 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

A New New Me
Helen Oyeyemi

A brilliant, playful new novel about identity and personality, from master storyteller Helen Oyeyemi. What if you had to share your body and life with six different versions of yourself? -- Provided by publisher.

207 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

New York's Secret Subway: The Underground Genius of Alfred Beach and the Origins of Mass Transit /
Matthew Algeo

In the nineteenth century, Manhattan's streets were so choked with pedestrians, horses, vehicles, and vendors that a trip from City Hall to Central Park could take hours. Alfred Beach had the perfect solution: build a giant pneumatic tube underneath Broadway from the Battery to Harlem.

276 pp. Hardcover - History

Next To Heaven
James Frey

Uncover the dark underbelly of the American dream America’s most perfect town, in this “lurid” and “propulsive” novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author James Frey (New York Times Book Review Podcast)–and discover a world where privilege, sex, scandal, and murder lurk beneath a flawless veneer.

324 pp. - Fiction

North Sun, or, The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther: A Novel
Ethan Rutherford

Setting out from New Bedford in 1878, the crew of the Esther is confident the sea will be theirs: in addition to cruising the Pacific for whale, they intend to hunt the teeming northern grounds before the ice closes. But as they sail to their final destination in the Chukchi Sea, where their captain Arnold Lovejoy has an urgent directive of his own to attend to, their encounters with the natural world become more brutal, harrowing, ghostly, and strange.

Finalist for the 2025 National Book Award in Fiction

387 pp. - Fiction

Not a Woman Architect: The Life and Work of Brigitte Peterhans
David Fleener (ed.)

This book presents the life story of an extraordinary woman in the world of corporate architecture during the Mad Men era of the 1950s to 1980s. Born in a small village in Germany, Brigitte Peterhans managed to come to America to study with Mies van der Rohe at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, and then to work with Bruce Graham at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Her work during this time reflected the mid-century modernism of Mies and SOM. Later in her career, both towards the end of her time at SOM and then on her own after retiring from SOM, she developed her own individual style. Significantly, Peterhans avoided any attempt to be either challenged or praised strictly as a woman architect, insisting that she was merely an architect.

192 pp. Paperback - Art, Architecture & Design

Obelists En Route
C. Daly King

The discovery of a corpse turns a cross-country train journey into a closed-circle hunt for a killer.

344 pp. - Mystery/Thriller

The Odessa File
Frederick Forsyth

#1 New York Times bestselling author Frederick Forsyth’s unforgettable novel of evil personified and one man’s determination to destroy it once and for all. . .

Read this classic thriller before the sequel is released!

337 pp. - Mystery/Thriller

On Air: The Triumph and Tumult of NPR
Steve Oney

An epic reported history of National Public Radio that reveals the unlikely story of one of America’s most celebrated but least understood media empires.

566 pp. - History

One Boat
Jonathan Buckley

On losing her father, Teresa returns to a small town on the Greek coast - the same place she visited when grieving her mother nine years ago. She immerses herself again in the life of the town, observing the inhabitants going about their business, a quiet backdrop for her reckoning with herself. An episode from her first visit resurfaces vividly - her encounter with John, a man struggling to come to terms with the violent death of his nephew. Soon Teresa encounters some of the people she met last time around: Petros, an eccentric mechanic, whose life story may or may not be part of John's; the beautiful Niko, a diving instructor; and Xanthe, a waitress in one of the cafés on the leafy town square. They talk about their longings, regrets, the passing of time, their sense of who they are.

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025.

166 pp. - Fiction

Our Fragile Freedoms: Essays
Eric Foner

In this collection of essays and reviews, renowned historian Eric Foner explores the evolving meaning of American freedom and its ongoing struggles. Covering topics from slavery and the Civil War to civil rights and contemporary politics, Foner examines key figures, events, and constitutional issues with clarity and insight. Highlighting how rights can be gained, lost, and must be continually defended, the book underscores the relevance of history in understanding today's political challenges and debates over how the past is remembered and taught.

466 pp. Hardcover - History

The Painter's Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution
Zara Anishanslin

Told through the lives of three remarkable artists devoted to the pursuit of liberty, an illuminating new history of the ideals that fired the American Revolution.

375 pp. - History

Palestine
Joe Sacco

Sacco captures the heart of the Palestinian experience in image after unforgettable image, with great insight and remarkable humour. The nine-issue comics series won a 1996 American Book Award.

288 pp. - Graphic Novel (nonfiction)

Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
Beth Macy

A deeply personal and eye-opening memoir from journalist Beth Macy, exploring how her once-thriving Ohio hometown unraveled over four decades. Blending family history, reporting, and social insight, Macy traces the loss of community, the rise of anger and division, and the human cost of economic and cultural decline in small-town America.

353 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent
Iain Pears

Best-selling novelist and art historian Iain Pears enchants readers with the real-life romance between Larissa Salmina, a Russian art curator, and Francis Haskell, a British art historian. His fabulous book brings into sharp focus the strange world of the Soviet Union, and the even stranger world of a certain variety of the English elite. It seeks to show how leaving the Soviet Union was a sacrifice for her and how it was the English man, not the Russian woman, who was set free because of their meeting. An extraordinary love story of two unlikely figures played out against the backdrop of the Cold War.

 

271 pp. - Biography

Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy: City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room
Paul Auster (Author), Paul Karasik (Illustrator), Lorenzo Mattotti (Illustrator), David Mazzucchelli (Illustrator)

From award-winning novelist Paul Auster comes the graphic adaptation of his deeply beloved series, The New York Trilogy, a postmodern take on detective and noir fiction.

398 pp. - Graphic Novel

Penelope's Bones: A New History of Homer’s World through the Women Written Out of It
Emily Hauser

Weaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real women behind Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.

467 pp. - History

Perfection
Vincenzo Latronico ; translated from the Italian by Sophie Hughes

With the stylistic mastery of Georges Perec and nihilism of Michel Houellebecq, Perfection, Vincenzo Latronico's first book to be translated into English, is a brilliantly scathing sociological novel about the emptiness of contemporary existence, beautifully written, impossibly bleak"-- Provided by publisher.

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025
125 pp. - Fiction

Philadelphia Merchants on Western Waters: Commerce and Empire in the Riverine West, 1750-1803
Kim M. Gruenwald

"This book examines how Philadelphia merchant networks used commerce and trade to integrate the Midwest into the United States, shaping the region's development before the 1803 Louisiana Purchase"-- Provided by publisher.

208 pp. Hardcover - History

Philadelphia, the Revolutionary City
American Philosophical Society (Editor)

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Philadelphia, the revolutionary city, April 11-December 28, 2025.

108 pp. - History

Piet Oudolf: Landscapes in Landscapes
Piet Oudolf with Noel Kingsbury

A leading figure in the New Perennial planting movement, garden and landscape designer Piet Oudolf emphasizes plant structure as the most important aspect of a successful garden, along with form, texture and colour. He uses perennials almost exclusively to create lasting, ecologically sound panoramas that relate to the greater landscape and the shifting seasons. This book features twenty-three of Oudolf's public and private gardens, along with detailed plans to provide inspiration and insight for small personal gardens and for the design of large-scale public landscapes.--From book flap.

280 pp. - Nature

Piet Oudolf at Work
project editor: Victoria Clarke with support from Hélène Lesger and Noel Kingsbury

Step into a Piet Oudolf garden and you are transported into a dreamlike meadowscape, filled with perennials, seasonal color, and texture. Made in close collaboration with Oudolf, this book showcases gardens throughout his career and across the globe from New York's acclaimed High Line to the newly planted Vitra Campus in Germany.

287 pp. - Art, Architecture & Design

Planting the Natural Garden
Piet Oudolf & Henk Gerritsen
287 pp. Hardcover - Nature

Pocket Chicago
Lauren Keith

"Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan an unforgettable trip to Chicago. Relax in Lincoln Park, root for a Cubs win at Wrigley Field, dig into deep-dish pizza, with the latest edition of our Pocket travel guide and find itineraries, fun walking tours and tips so you can discover twice the city in half the time."-- From the publisher.

160 pp. Paperback - Travel

Pocket Stockholm
Nanjala Nyabola

Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan an unforgettable trip to Stockholm.

160 pp. Paperback - Travel

Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
Susana M. Morris

A magnificent cultural biography that charts the life of one of our greatest writers, situating her alongside the key historical and social moments that shaped her work. --From the publisher.

247 pp. Hardcover - Biography

The Possession
Annie Ernaux, translated by Anna Moschovakis

Self-regard, in the works of Annie Ernaux, is always an excruciatingly painful and exact process. Here, she revisits the peculiar kind of self-fulfillment possible when we examine ourselves in the aftermath of a love affair, and sometimes, even, through the eyes of the lost beloved.

44 pp. Paperback - Fiction

Purge and Bleed: Philadelphia's Yellow Fever Epidemic and the Stagnation of American Medicine
Marshall Foletta

Explaining the deadly stasis of American medicine in the nineteenth century

270 pp. - History

Queer Moderns: Max Ewing's Jazz Age New York
Alice T. Friedman

A richly illustrated history of the glittering world of queer artistic life in the 1920s and ’30s.

269 pp. - History

Race, Real Estate, and Education: Inventing Gentrification in Philadelphia, 1960-2020
Edward M. Epstein

"Explores the history of Philadelphia as a gentrifying city and the role of educational institutions in the city's transformation"-- Provided by publisher.

197 pp. - History

The Red Shore
William Shaw

Met detective Eden Driscoll never wanted a child, but when his estranged sister vanishes from her sailboat, he is asked to look after her son Finn - the nephew he hadn't even known existed. Resettled in the seaside town of Teignmouth, Eden adjusts to his newfound parenthood. Then Finn disappears from school, and Eden knows something is dreadfully wrong. When Eden's sister's body is finally found, floating in the sea, local police rule her death an accident, but Eden isn't convinced. She was an experienced sailor and would never sail without a life jacket. Eden starts searching his sister's life for answers, and what he discovers changes everything.

371 pp. - Mystery/Thriller

The Rest of Our Lives
Ben Markovits

What’s left when your kids grow up and leave home?

When Tom Layward’s wife had an affair he resolved to leave her as soon as his youngest daughter turned eighteen. Twelve years later, while driving her to Pittsburgh to start university, he remembers his pact.

He is also on the run from his own health issues, and the fact that he’s been put on leave at work after students complained about the politics of his law class – something he hasn’t yet told his wife.

So, after dropping Miriam off, he keeps driving, with the vague plan of visiting various people from his past – an old college friend, his ex-girlfriend, his brother, his son – on route, maybe, to his father’s grave in California.-- From the publisher.

Shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize

239 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Retrouvius: Contemporary Salvage : Designing Homes from a Philosophy of Re-Use
Maria Speake

London-based design studio Retrouvius has carved a unique and important niche in the interior design and architecture spheres by blending architectural salvage with innovative design.

271 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

The Roma: A Traveling History
Madeline Potter

A unique, deeply personal portrait of the nomadic Romani people and their on-going journey that sheds new light on their history, where they have traveled and settled, and what it means to be Romani today.

253 pp. - History

The Rough Guide to Greece
Rough Guides

This guide to Greece is compiled by a dozen expert contributors and provides in-depth coverage of every attraction, from Delphic antiquities to Athens night life.

816 pp. - Travel

Ruth
Kate Riley

In this mesmerizing and profound novel, the arc of a woman's life in a devout, insular community challenges our deepest assumptions about what infuses life with meaning.

248 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Salt Bones: A Novel
Jennifer Givhan

At the edge of the Salton Sea, in the blistering borderlands, something is out hunting... Malamar Veracruz has never left the dust-choked town of El Valle. Here, Mal has done her best to build a good life: She's raised two children, worked hard, and tried to forget the painful, unexplained disappearance of her sister, Elena. When another local girl goes missing, Mal plunges into a fresh yet familiar nightmare.

374 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Scandinavia
Anthony Ham et al.

Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan a multi-week adventure to Scandinavia.

584 pp. Paperback - Travel

Sea, Poison
Caren Beilin

Cumin Baleen is a forty-one-year-old writer living in Philadelphia-this city of hospitals-who works at the upscale grocery Sea & Poison and is navigating the onset of an autoimmune condition.

115 pp. Paperback - Fiction

Seascraper
Benjamin Wood

Thomas lives a slow, deliberate life with his mother in Longferry, working his grandpa's trade as a shanker. He rises early to take his horse and cart to the grey, gloomy beach and scrape for shrimp, spending the afternoon selling his wares, trying to wash away the salt and scum, pining for Joan Wyeth down the street, and rehearsing songs on his guitar. At heart, he is a folk musician, but it remains a private dream. When a striking visitor turns up, bringing the promise of Hollywood glamour, Thomas is shaken from the drudgery of his days and begins to see a different future. But how much of what the American claims is true, and how far can his inspiration carry Thomas?

Longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize

162 pp. - Fiction

The Secret Life of a Cemetery: The Wild Nature and Enchanting Lore of Père-Lachaise
Benoît Gallot

Amidst the famous dead, whispers of ghost stories, and wild foxes lives Benoit Gallot, head curator of the world’s most storied cemetery in Paris.

221 pp. - Miscellaneous

Seduction Theory: A Novel
Emily Adrian

Innovative, witty, and tender, Seduction Theory exposes the intoxicating nature of power and attraction, masterfully demonstrating how love and betrayal can coexist"-- Provided by publisher.

213 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Shadow Ticket
Thomas Pynchon

Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labor-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a one-time strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he's found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, locating and bringing back the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune who's taken a mind to go wandering. By the time Hicks catches up with her he will find himself entangled with Nazis, Soviet agents, British counterspies, swing musicians, practitioners of the paranormal, outlaw motorcyclists, and the troubles that come with each of them.

293 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück: How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler's All-Female Concentration Camp
Lynne Olson

The extraordinary true story of a small group of Frenchwomen, all Resistance members, who banded together in a notorious concentration camp to defy the Nazis—from the New York Times bestselling author of Madame Fourcade’s Secret War

367 pp. - Biography

Sisters in the Wind
Angeline Boulley

Ever since Lucy Smith’s father died five years ago, “home” has been more of an idea than a place. She knows being on the run is better than anything waiting for her as a “ward of the state”. But when the sharp-eyed and kind Mr. Jameson with an interest in her case comes looking for her, Lucy wonders if hiding from her past will ever truly keep her safe.

Five years in the foster system has taught her to be cautious and smart. But she wants to believe Mr. Jameson and his “friend-not-friend”, a tall and fierce-looking woman who say they want to look after her. They also tell Lucy the truth her father hid from her: She is Ojibwe; she has – had – a sister, and more siblings, a grandmother who’d look after her and a home where she would be loved.

But Lucy is being followed. The past has destroyed any chance at safety she had. Will the secrets she's hiding swallow her whole and take away any hope for the future she always dreamed of?

When the past comes for revenge, it’s fight or flight.--From the publisher

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick

368 pp. - Youth

Sketchbook Joy: How to embrace your creativity and fill your sketchbooks with colour
Katie Moody

Art can be accessible, so much fun and positive for your mental health, mindfulness, and memory. Kickstart your creative journey with this exciting guide to developing your art skills every day through your sketchbook.

159 pp. - Art, Architecture & Design

So Far Gone
Jess Walter

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins—and in the propulsive spirit of Charles Portis’ True Grit—comes a hilarious, empathetic, and brilliantly provocative adventure through life in modern America, about a reclusive journalist forced back into the world to rescue his kidnapped grandchildren.

National Bestseller

257 pp. - Fiction

Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change
Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva, and Daniel Kelly

Changing the world is difficult. One reason is that the most important problems, like climate change, racism, and poverty, are structural. They emerge from our collective practices: laws, economies, history, culture, norms, and built environments. The dilemma is that there is no way to make structural change without individual people making different—more structure-facing—decisions. In Somebody Should Do Something, Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva, and Daniel Kelly show us how we can connect our personal choices to structural change and why individual choices matter, though not in the way people usually think.

342 pp. Hardcover - Miscellaneous

The South
Tash Aw

A radiant, intimate novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer―about family, desire, and what we inherit.

Longlisted for the Booker Prize

282 pp. - Fiction

Spectacular Things: A Novel
Beck Dorey-Stein

Two sisters examine what they owe each other and what they are willing to sacrifice to make their dreams come true.

353 pp. - Fiction

Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Donald Trump
Molly Worthen

What happens when Americans lose faith in their religious institutions—and politicians fill the void? From the Puritans to Donald Trump, this sweeping history will change your understanding of the forces that create leaders and hold their followers captive.

431 pp. - Politics

Spent: A Comic Novel
Alison Bechdel

The celebrated and beloved New York Times bestselling author of the modern classic Fun Home presents a laugh-out-loud, brilliant, and passionately political work of autofiction.

255 pp. - Graphic Novel

The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
John Seabrook

The riveting saga of the Seabrook Family, by one of The New Yorkers most acclaimed storytellers.

346 pp. - Biography

Start Making Sense: How Existential Psychology Can Help Us Build Meaningful Lives in Absurd Times
Steven J. Heine

A "beautiful, deep, thoughtful" (Angela Duckworth, New York Times-bestselling author of Grit) investigation into the science of why we crave meaning—and how we can pursue it in this age of anxiety.

335 pp. - Miscellaneous

Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson
Leo Damrosch

In Storyteller, Leo Damrosch brings to life an unforgettable personality, illuminated by many who knew Stevenson well and drawing from thousands of the writer's letters in his many voices and moods--playful, imaginative, at times tragic.

554 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America
Michael Luo

From New Yorker writer Michael Luo comes a masterful narrative history of the Chinese in America that traces the sorrowful theme of exclusion and documents their more than century-long struggle to belong.

542 pp. - History

Strangers Need Strange Moments Together: Designing Interaction for Public Spaces
Mouna Andraos, Melissa Mongiat

We crave places that support us, nourish us and inspire us. We dream of going through our lives together, inclusively and tolerantly. Can we re-enchant the raw material of our shared everyday? This book frequently uses the word 'we'. We, as in the general public, engaged citizens, humans of planet Earth ... And we, Mouna Andraos and Melissa Mongiat, together with our team at Daily tous les jours, as we seek new models for living together. --Back cover.

236 pp. - Art, Architecture & Design

Susan Watkins and Women Artists of the Progressive Era
Corey Piper (Editor)

This survey of the life and work of American painter Susan Watkins explores how she and other women artists carved paths to success at the turn of the twentieth century.

166 pp. - Art, Architecture & Design

Things That Disappear
Jenny Erpenbeck ; translated from the German by Kurt Beals

The bestselling and award-winning German author Jenny Erpenbeck has gained international praise for her novels including Visitation, Kairos, and Go, Went, Gone. Things That Disappear is an exciting collection of interlinked miniature prose pieces that grapple with the phenomenon of disappearance on scales both large and small. The things that disappear in these pages range from everyday objects such as socks and cheese to close friends and the social norms of common courtesy, to sites and objects resonant with East German history, such as the Palace of the Republic or the lines of sight now blocked by new construction in Berlin.

71 pp. Paperback - Miscellaneous

The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)
Rabih Alameddine

When Raja receives an invite to an all-expenses-paid writing residency in America, the timing couldn't be better. It arrives on the heels of a series of personal and national disasters that have left Raja longing for peace and quiet away from his mother and the heartache of Lebanon. But what at first seems a stroke of good fortune soon leads Raja to recount and relive the very disasters and past betrayals he wishes to forget.

326 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Tunnel: A Memoir
Tripp Friedler

The Tunnel is a father's memoir about a family's odyssey through the world of serious mental illness. It is a story about the battles Friedler's son Henry fought with his parents, with various authority figures including schools, teachers, and the police and most importantly, the battles Henry fought with his own mind.

280 pp. - Biography

Type V City: Codifying Material Inequity in Urban America
Jeana Ripple

"A history of the building codes in the United States and the role that wood frame construction has played in the development of American cities"-- Provided by publisher.

222 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Universality
Natasha Brown

Late one night on a Yorkshire farm, in the midst of an illegal rave, a young man is nearly bludgeoned to death with a solid gold bar. An ambitious young journalist sets out to uncover the truth surrounding the attack, connecting the dots between an amoral banker landlord, an iconoclastic columnist, and a radical anarchist movement that has taken up residence on the farm. She solves the mystery, but her viral exposé raises more questions than it answers, namely: Who wrote it? Why? And how much of it is true? Through a voyeuristic lens, and with a simmering power, it focuses in on words: what we say, how we say it, and what we really mean.

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025

152 pp. - Fiction

The Unwedding
Ally Condie

Ellery Wainwright is alone at a luxury resort in Big Sur, California. A wedding is scheduled during her stay, but Ellery discovers the dead groom.

337 pp. - Mystery/Thriller

Vianne: A Novel
Joanne Harris

Secrets. Chocolate. A touch of magic. On the evening of July 4th, a young woman scatters her mother's ashes in New York and follows the call of the changing winds to the French coastal city of Marseille.

401 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Vulture
Phoebe Greenwood

"An ambitious young journalist, Sara is sent to cover a war from the Beach Hotel in Gaza. The four-star hotel is a global media hub, promising safety and generator-powered Internet, with hotel staff catering tirelessly to the needs of the world's media, even as their own homes and families are under threat. Sara is determined to launch her career as a star correspondent. So, when her fixer Nasser refuses to set up the dangerous story she thinks will win her a front page, she turns instead to Fadi, the youngest member of a powerful militant family. Driven by the demons of her entitled yet damaging childhood, Sara will stop at nothing to prove herself in this war, even if it means bringing disaster upon those around her."-- Provided by publisher.

281 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

We Are Green and Trembling
Gabriela Cabezón Cámara ; translated from the Spanish by Robin Myers

We Are Green and Trembling is a queer baroque satire that blends elements of the picaresque with surreal storytelling. Its rich and wildly imaginative language forms a searing criticism of conquest, colonialism, and religious tyranny, as well as of the treatment of women and indigenous people.

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature
196 pp. - Fiction

When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World
Jordan Thomas

A hotshot firefighter’s gripping firsthand account of a record-setting fire season.

350 pp. - Miscellaneous

When the Cranes Fly South: A Novel
Lisa Ridzén ; translated from the Swedish by Alice Menzies

"Bo is running out of time. Yet time is one of the few things he's got left. These days, his quiet existence is broken up only by daily visits from his home care team. Fortunately, he still has his beloved elkhound Sixten to keep him company ... though now his son, with whom Bo has had a rocky relationship, insists upon taking the dog away, claiming that Bo has grown too old to properly care for him. The threat of losing Sixten stirs up a whirlwind of emotion, leading Bo to take stock of his life, his relationships, and the imperfect way he's expressed his love over the years"-- Provided by publisher

308 pp. - Fiction

The Wilderness: A Novel
Angela Flournoy

Desiree, Danielle, January, Monique, and Nakia are in their early twenties and at the beginning of their careers, of marriage, of motherhood, and of big-city lives in New York and Los Angeles. Together, they are finding their way through the wilderness, that period of life when the reality of contemporary adulthood--overwhelming, mysterious, and full of freedom and consequences--swoops in and stays.

Longlisted for 2025 National Book Award for Fiction

292 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Woman Dies
Aoko Matsuda ; translated from the Japanese by Polly Barton

In The Woman Dies, renowned author Aoko Matsuda approaches often-thorny subjects such as sexism, prejudice, the normalizing effect of violence against women on screen, or the aesthetics associated with technology, with an inventiveness and quirky humor that keep these stories on the thrilling cusp between seriousness and levity.

173 pp. - Fiction

Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man's Search for Home
Jonathan Capehart

Pulitzer Prize winning writer, editor and TV host Jonathan Capehart recounts powerful stories from his life about embracing identity, picking battles, seizing opportunity and finding his voice.

New York Times Bestseller

259 pp. - Biography

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