
David A. Robertson
From bestselling author of the Misewa Saga series David A. Robertson, this is the essential guide for all Canadians to understand how small and attainable acts towards reconciliation can make an enormous difference in our collective efforts to build a reconciled country.
227 pp. - NonfictionEd Snyder
This book explores Philadelphia’s lost and neglected cemeteries, revealing a hidden history of change, decay, and restoration.
96 pp. - NonfictionChristine Pride
From Christine Pride, the beloved coauthor of the Good Morning America Book Club Pick We Are Not Like Them, comes a dazzling solo debut novel about a woman who finds herself in the impossible situation of being in love with the same two men who won her heart in her early twenties again as she nears forty.
303 pp. - FictionKaren Babine
One woman’s cross-country journey to explore the hold family history has on our lives, and the power of new stories to shape what lies ahead.
257 pp. - BiographyHal Ebbott
Written with hypnotic elegance and molten precision, and announcing the arrival of a major literary talent, Hal Ebbott’s Among Friends examines betrayal within the sanctuary of a defining relationship, as well as themes of class, marriage, friendship, power, and the things we tell ourselves to preserve our finely made worlds.
309 pp. - FictionMolly Beer
A women-centric view of revolution through the life of Angelica Schuyler Church, Alexander Hamilton’s influential sister-in-law.
320 pp. - BiographyJulia 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. - NonfictionChristopher Beanland
A smooth ride through the golden age of car travel, looking at both its cultural and architectural impact on the world.
256 pp. - Art, Architecture & DesignNathaniel Robert Walker, Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann (Editors)
The material legacies of slavery across the Atlantic world.
355 pp. - HistoryMorgan 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. - FictionMichelle 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. - BiographyTaylor Jenkins Reid
From the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits.
#1 New York Times Bestseller; Good Morning America Book Club Pick
337 pp. - FictionMiranda 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. - NonfictionDonna 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 - BiographyNina George
A respected professor begins a secret affair with her son’s girlfriend one summer on the Brittany coast in this intense, poetic novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Little Paris Bookshop.
276 pp. - FictionEli Erlick
Explore the trailblazing lives of 30 trans people who radically change everything you’ve been told about transgender history.
268 pp. - HistorySimon Boas
Lessons for all of us in how to approach life—from someone in the process of dying.
141 pp. - BiographyVarious
Featuring brand new short stories from Kevin Barry, Eimear McBride, Belinda McKeon, Lisa McInerney, Danielle McLaughlin, Stuart Neville, Sally Rooney, Kit de Waal and many more.
354 pp. - FictionMichael Lewis & Ian Richardson
Recounts the incredible stories of more than fifty archaeological treasures recently found by ordinary people, and which are reshaping our understanding of British history.
271 pp. - NonfictionVictoria Mier
Journalist Raegan Overhill’s investigation into her father’s disappearance has taken her deep into strange, glittering worlds—and hopelessly entangled her with the dangerous, alluring Unseelie king. But the truths she’s fought so hard for offer no comfort, and certainly no closure. With the Unseelie Fae King at her side, Raegan’s only choice is to forge ahead—right into a looming war against a powerful god, which just might destroy everything she holds dear.
531 pp. - FictionDiarmaid Ferriter
Drawing on completely new sources, Ireland's most brilliant historian shows how important the Irish War of Independence was for understanding Ireland now.
328 pp. - HistoryMoudhy 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
Victoria Mier
A mortal journalist. A mysterious series of drownings. An exiled Fey king. A forgotten Fatesong. A single, desperate chance to save magic from extinction.
480 pp. - Mystery/ThrillerBirnbaum Guides
Presents a guide to the different sections of Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, including the Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Hollywood Studios, Animal Kingdom, and the Walt Disney World resorts.
364 pp. - TravelCheryl 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. - BiographyTre Johnson
A powerful read examining the lack of opportunity given to Black Americans due to structural racism, and how forgotten historical figures and the author's own family found a way to succeed despite the obstacles.
289 pp. - NonfictionDarrow Farr
An electric novel by an extraordinary new talent, The Bombshell is filled with seduction and fervor, and explores the wonders and perils of youthful idealism, the combustibility of celebrity, and the sublime force of young love.
408 pp. - FictionMario Escobar
An exciting and rigorously documented novel by one of the most translated and read Spanish authors in the world. This hopeful and inspiring story in the face of the horror of intolerance is, above all, an indisputable tribute to literature.
284 pp. - FictionGarrett Carr
Set on Ireland’s west coast in the 1970s and 80s, a captivating debut novel about a baby boy who is discovered on the beach beside a small fishing town, as told by the locals who fall under the boy’s transfixing spell.
326 pp. - FictionCharlotte Runcie
A theater critic at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe writes a vicious one-star review of a struggling actress he has a one-night stand with in this sharply funny, feminist tinderbox.
297 pp. - FictionClare Leslie Hall
A love triangle unearths dangerous, deadly secrets from the past in this thrilling tale perfect for fans of The Paper Palace and Where the Crawdads Sing.
A New York Times Bestseller; A Reese's Book Club Pick
307 pp. - FictionJohn Grisham
Welcome back to Camino Island, where anything can happen-even a murder in the midst of a hurricane, which might prove to be the perfect crime . . . Just as Bruce Cable's Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann, Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for the island. Florida's governor orders a mandatory evacuation, and most residents board up their houses and flee to the mainland, but Bruce decides to stay and ride out the storm. The hurricane is devastating: homes and condos are leveled, hotels and storefronts ruined, streets flooded, and a dozen people lose their lives. One of the apparent victims is Nelson Kerr, a friend of Bruce's and an author of thrillers. But the nature of Nelson's injuries suggests that the storm wasn't the cause of his death: He has suffered several suspicious blows to the head. Who would want Nelson dead? The local police are overwhelmed in the aftermath of the storm and ill equipped to handle the case. Bruce begins to wonder if the shady characters in Nelson's novels might be more real than fictional. And somewhere on Nelson's computer is the manuscript of his new novel. Could the key to the case be right there-in black and white? As Bruce starts to investigate, what he discovers between the lines is more shocking than any of Nelson's plot twists-and far more dangerous.
292 pp. - FictionYrsa 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.
Julian Barnes
Bestselling author Julian Barnes illuminates the process of how minds are changed—about politics, books, words, memories, and more—in this wise and fascinating new book.
57 pp. - NonfictionCharlie English
Recounts a covert Cold War operation led by George Minden to smuggle banned literature into Eastern Europe, focusing on the cultural and psychological battle against Soviet censorship and the role underground reading networks played in weakening totalitarian control, especially in Poland.
341 pp. - HistoryGraciela 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 & DesignSatu Rämö
Hildur Runarsdottir is the only police detective in the isolated Westfjords of Iceland, desperately trying to forget her traumatic past by burying herself in her cases. Once Jakob Johanson, a Finnish police trainee with a knitting hobby, begins to work alongside Hildur to escape his own complicated life, it becomes clear that neither can keep their pasts away for long. But when a local man is found with his throat slit, underneath an avalanche that has buried much of the evidence, Hildur and Jakob must set their own problems aside and unravel the dark secrets and a killer that the picturesque fjords hide...
334 pp. - Mystery/ThrillerMichelle Craig McDonald
Illuminates how coffee tied the economic future of the early United States to the wider Atlantic world.
271 pp. - NonfictionRobert 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 - BiographyKanae Minato
In this international bestselling thriller, a former teacher delivers her final lesson to her students—including the two children that murdered her daughter.
324 pp. - FictionSonoko Machida
An international bestseller with over half a million copies sold between Japan and South Korea, The Convenience Store by The Sea tells the delightfully quirky and heartfelt stories of the store's customers and employees, offering us all a unique recipe for a good, fulfilling life.
297 pp. - FictionAmy Jordan
"This suspenseful story will appeal to readers of contemporary police procedurals like Tana French’s Dublin Murder series and Jane Harper’s Aaron Falk series." —Jane Harper, Booklist
314 pp. - Mystery/ThrillerStephen 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 - HistorySusan Brown & Alexa Griffith Winton (Editors)
The first major publication devoted to weaver and designer Dorothy Liebes, reinstating her as one of the most influential American designers of the twentieth century
253 pp. - Art, Architecture & DesignMaggie Smith
Drawing from her twenty years of teaching experience and her bestselling Substack newsletter, For Dear Life, Maggie Smith breaks down creativity into ten essential elements: attention, wonder, vision, play, surprise, vulnerability, restlessness, tenacity, connection, and hope. Each element is explored through short, inspiring, and craft-focused essays, followed by generative writing prompts.
253 pp. - NonfictionChris Chibnall
From the internationally award-winning creator of Broadchurch comes a brilliant new detective story following one man’s death and the secrets that unravel in a coastal English village
340 pp. - Mystery/ThrillerLori 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. - FictionCristina Rivera Garza
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Liliana's Invincible Summer, a dreamlike, genre-defying novel about a professor and detective seeking justice in a world suffused with gendered violence.
290 pp. - FictionHolly Brickley
Moving from Brooklyn bars to San Francisco dance floors, Deep Cuts examines the nature of talent, obsession, belonging, and above all, our need to be heard.
275 pp. - FictionTodd 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. - BiographyBarry 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 & DesignSam 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. - ScienceDaniel Kehlmann
From “one of the brightest, most pleasure-giving writers at work today” (Jeffrey Eugenides, Pulitzer Prize–winning author), a visionary tale inspired by the life of film director G.W. Pabst, who fled to Hollywood to resist the Nazis only to be forced to return to his homeland and create propaganda films for the German Reich.
333 pp. - FictionMartin Doyle
Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, offers a personal, intimate history of the Troubles seen through the microcosm of a single rural parish, his own, part of both the Linen Triangle–heartland of the North's defining industry–and the Murder Triangle–the Badlands roamed by the Glenanne gang of security forces colluding with loyalist paramilarites.
351 pp. - HistoryDavid 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. - PoliticsChris Pavone
A pulse-pounding novel of class, privilege, sex, and murder, from the New York Times bestselling author of Two Nights in Lisbon and The Expats.
388 pp. - FictionOcean 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. - FictionIzzy 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 & DesignMaria 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. - FictionMartin Walker
A real estate agent’s death sends shockwaves through the idyllic town of St. Denis, leading Bruno, Chief of Police, to suspect that there’s more to this tragedy than meets the eye.
289 pp. - Mystery/ThrillerAndrew Satake Blauvelt, Bridget Bartal
An expansive account of the ever-popular mid-century movement, from the place where it all began.
463 pp. - Art, Architecture & DesignMarie-Helene Bertino
Twelve delightfully strange, haunting stories from the acclaimed, oracular author of Beautyland
191 pp. - FictionJeffrey Archer
In one of the most luxurious cities on earth, a billion-dollar deal is about to go badly wrong. A lavish night out is about to end in murder. And the British government is about to be plunged into crisis. Lord Hartley, the latest in a line of peers going back over two hundred years, lies dying. But his will triggers an inheritance with explosive consequences. Two deaths. Continents apart. No obvious connection. So why are they both at the centre of a master criminal's plot for revenge? And can Scotland Yard's elite squad uncover the truth before it's too late?
373 pp. - Mystery/ThrillerDiane McKinney-Whetstone
Diane McKinney-Whetstone’s latest character-rich, page-turner blends her signature style with a little magic in her depiction of the Maces, a vibrant family of Philadelphia clairvoyants with issues.
245 pp. - FictionH. G. Parry
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell meets A Tale of Two Cities in H. G. Parry’s A Far Better Thing, a heart-rending fantasy of faery revenge set during the French Revolution.
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 & DesignRick 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. - HistoryCarl Hiaasen
Another instant classic from Carl Hiaasen—laugh-out-loud funny, tackling the current chaotic and polarized American culture (following in the path of Squeeze Me), with two wonderful Hiaasen heroes.
367 pp. - FictionAnika Burgess
The story of the wildest experiments in early photography and the wild people who undertook them.
322 pp. - HistorySusan Choi
A novel tracing a father’s disappearance across time, nations, and memory, from the author of Trust Exercise.
Longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize
2025 National Book Awards Longlist for Fiction
450 pp. - FictionDavid 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.
Longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize
353 pp. - FictionMichael Leja
Explores how the widespread circulation of pictures reshaped a nineteenth-century US culture that was accustomed to printed and spoken words
394 pp. - HistoryHaley Cohen Gilliland
A remarkable new talent in narrative nonfiction delivers the epic true story of a group of courageous grandmothers who fought to find their grandchildren who were stolen.
472 pp. - NonfictionJessica Francis Kane
The story acclaimed English author Penelope Fitzgerald never wrote, of her real-life journey to Mexico with her son in search of a much-needed inheritance, by Jessica Francis Kane, bestselling author of Rules for Visiting
257 pp. - FictionSebastian Castillo
After a year of self-imposed exile, a young writer attends a New Year’s Eve party in hopes of reconnecting with old classmates in a blackly humorous tale set on a single snowy night
142 pp. - FictionHazell Ward
In this fresh and immersive murder mystery that riffs on crime classics, the reader is put in the role of the Great Detective, reinvestigating an infamous never-before-solved case from 1970s England.
442 pp. - Mystery/ThrillerNaomi Xu Elegant
For readers of Elif Batuman and Sally Rooney, a beguiling debut novel about finding oneself after heartbreak. This wise and tenderhearted novel explores the nature of our deepest friendships as seriously as it does the dizzying terror and thrill of falling in love, and the complications of trying to live a life that matches your ideals.
250 pp. - FictionJonathan 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. - HistoryOtto Penzler
In these classic mystery tales, literature is a matter of life or death.
426 pp. - Mystery/ThrillerDenise Mina
In this provocative mystery from beloved crime writer Denise Mina, new evidence in an old murder case forces one woman to make an impossible choice.
254 pp. - Mystery/ThrillerAdrian Duncan
In this moving new novel, award-winning Irish writer Adrian Duncan explores love and grief while finding their resonance in works of art.
218 pp. - FictionSusan Gubar
One of our most formidable literary critics explores how nine women artists flourished creatively in their final acts.
368 pp. - Art, Architecture & DesignSatu Rämö
Detective Hildur Rúnarsdottir and her trainee Jakob are plagued by their own demons while working on the chilly west coast of Iceland: Hildur by the disappearance of her younger sisters twenty-five years ago and Jakob by a custody battle that has left him unable to see his son. When a local politician is found shot dead on a ski trail, the two must put aside their personal problems to investigate the murder. While initially thought to be a crime of passion, there are much darker secrets hiding beneath the surface. Hildur and Jakob soon realise that even the dead can't stay buried forever.
338 pp. - Mystery/ThrillerJohn Kelly
A magisterial account of one of the worst disasters to strike humankind--the Great Irish Potato Famine--conveyed as lyrical narrative history from the acclaimed author of The Great Mortality
397 pp. - HistoryMichael M. Greenburg
How an engineering crisis threatened a career, a building, and the lives of countless New Yorkers.
237 pp. - HistoryCristina Rivera Garza
By one of Mexico's greatest contemporary writers, this investigation into state violence and mourning gives voice to the political experience of collective pain. Translated by Sarah Booker
182 pp. - Nonfiction
Ken Bruen
Praised by authors and critics around the globe, The Guards is the first novel in the Jack Taylor series and heralded the arrival of prominent Irish writer Ken Bruen as an essential voice in contemporary crime fiction.
An Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel.
291 pp. - Mystery/ThrillerBanu Mushtaq
In the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India.
216 pp. - Fiction
Donal Ryan
From one of the most acclaimed Irish writers today, a new novel about smalltown Ireland that explores a community on the mend and the power of love and trauma to both bring people together and divide them.
Winner of the Irish Book of the Year; Shortlisted for the Nero Novel of the Year; A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
196 pp. - FictionMary V. Slinkard
With her reputation on the line, one woman must make the ultimate gamble to save her career, her client, and a young boy's life.
298 pp. - FictionJames Wright
Go to any ancient building in the land and there will be interesting and exciting stories presented to the visitor. Buildings archaeologist James Wright explains and unpicks the development of these myths and investigates the underlying truths behind them. Sometimes the realities hiding behind the stories are even more engaging, romantic and compelling than the myths themselves.
228 pp. - HistoryJonathan Tarleton
A tale of 2 NYC affordable housing co-ops’ struggle over privatization, public goods, and the future of American housing
261 pp. - NonfictionLawrence Wright
In this sweeping, timely thriller, a Palestinian American FBI agent teams up with a hardline Israeli cop to solve the murder of the Israeli police chief in Gaza—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Looming Tower and The End of October.
429 pp. - FictionIrene Solà 162 pp. - Fiction
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. - FictionKeith 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. - BiographyJulian 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. - BiographyAmy Bloom
A sweeping, intimate novel about an unconventional and irresistible family, in prose “so finely wrought it shimmers” (Los Angeles Times)—from the New York Times bestselling author of In Love, White Houses, and Away.
National Bestseller
254 pp. - FictionLori 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 & DesignErica 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)Daniel Silva
Art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon must solve the perfect crime in the dazzling new tale of murder, greed, and corruption from #1 New York Times bestselling novelist Daniel Silva.
399 pp. - Mystery/ThrillerLucy Caldwell
In eleven stories, Intimacies exquisitely charts the steps and missteps of young women trying to find their place in the world. From a Belfast student ordering illegal drugs online to end an unwanted pregnancy to a young mother's brush with mortality, and from a Christmas Eve walking the city centre streets when everything seems possible, to a night flight from Canada which could change a life irrevocably, these are stories of love, loss and exile, of new beginnings and lives lived away from 'home'.
Includes the winner of the 2021 BBC National Short Story Award
158 pp. - FictionMaggie 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 & DesignWade Hudson (Author), E. B. Lewis (Illustrator)
This lyrical picture book explores the birth of Black America, focusing on the little-known men and women who fought for justice and for an America where freedom truly rang for all.
40 pp. - Youth (nonfiction)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 - MiscellaneousR.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 - FictionSam Blake
Single Mum Kate Wilde has escaped an abusive marriage and hasn't had a holiday in years, so when she wins a five-day trip to Paris to learn about perfume - in a competition she can't remember entering - it's a dream come true. Or is it? Almost as soon as she arrives, Kate's ex texts with evidence that he's in Paris too. Kate can feel she's being watched, and she's sure someone has been in her apartment. Then she discovers that there's a killer in the city focusing on red headed women like her. And his kill count is rising. Who should she fear the most? Can her instincts keep her safe?
500 pp. - Mystery/ThrillerMarlen Haushofer
Never before in English, a gripping, razor-sharp novella of a fractured marriage, by the ferociously talented author of The Wall.
87 pp. - Fiction
Clive Aslet
In King Charles III: 40 Years of Architecture, Clive Aslet offers a lively account of the King and his epic engagement with architecture since the ‘carbuncle’ speech of 1984.
236 pp. - Art, Architecture & DesignS. A. Cosby
Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby returns with King of Ashes, a Godfather-inspired Southern crime epic and dazzling family drama.
333 pp. - Mystery/ThrillerMaria Medem
Seeped in flamenco rhythms, a hero’s journey of love and hope.
332 pp. - Graphic NovelDennis McNally
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Strange Trip and the publicist of the Grateful Dead, a riveting social history of everything that led up to the 1960s counterculture movement.
420 pp. - HistoryLeah Litman
Something is deeply rotten at the Supreme Court. How did we get here and what can we do about it? Crooked Media podcast host Leah Litman shines a light on the unabashed lawlessness embraced by conservative Supreme Court justices and shows us how to fight back.
Instant New York Times bestseller
311 pp. - NonfictionElaine Feeney
Explores layers of violence, the lost voices of women, post-colonial repercussions of that violence and the way it can grip generations. Will the secrets revealed alter the course of Claire’s future, and can love exist in a place of pain?
301 pp. - FictionFrancesca Giannone
In a novel that has become a bestselling phenomenon in Italy, The Letter Carrier shows how a little town in southern Italy might be just like every town—with women and men, husband and wives, fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, all trying to navigate the world while staying true to their hearts.
404 pp. - FictionJorge Luis Borges
This collection brings together many of Borges's greatest and most beloved stories, including 'The Garden of Forking Paths', 'The Book of Sand' and 'Shakespeare's Memory'.
156 pp. - FictionRichard Russo
A marvelous new essay collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Somebody's Fool and The Destiny Thief.
189 pp. - NonfictionJennie 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/ThrillerArnold 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 & DesignDeborah Derrickson Kossmann
How does a psychologist fail to recognize that her intelligent, sensitive, and book-loving mother has created "the worst hoarder house ever seen?" After making the horrifying discovery that her mother had no water in her house for at least two years, Deborah Derrickson Kossmann begins the otherworldly excavation of a childhood home she hasn't been inside for three decades. Moving back and forth in time, from this surreal nightmare of an archaeological dig to recollecting her past and long buried family secrets, Kossmann seeks to untangle a web of complicated familial relationships. In her lyrical and unflinching quest, she comes to understand what's been lost, what's been found and what's been kept in both her own and her mother's life.
275 pp. - BiographyClaire 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. - FictionJane 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/ThrillerKatie Yee
A Chinese American woman spins tragedy into comedy when her life falls apart in a taut, wry debut novel, “as playful as it is profound” (Alison Espach, author of The Wedding People)—perfect for fans of Joan Is Okay and Crying in H Mart.
200 pp. - FictionKaren 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. - BiographyOwen Hopkins
Manifesto houses reflect new visions for how we can live. Often extreme and uncompromising, they are vehicles for innovation, new ideas, and new ways of doing things.
240 pp. - Art, Architecture & DesignAnthony Horowitz
Murder links past and present once again in this mind-boggling metafictional mystery from Anthony Horowitz featuring detective Atticus Pünd and editor Susan Ryeland, stars of the New York Times bestsellers Magpie Murders and Moonflower Murders.
582 pp. - Mystery/ThrillerRon Chernow
Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow illuminates the full, fascinating, and complex life of the writer long celebrated as the father of American literature, Mark Twain
#1 New York Times Bestseller!
1,174 pp. - BiographySophie 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 - BiographyRob Hart
Welcome back to Assassins Anonymous, the only twelve-step group where joining can be deadly.
306 pp. - Mystery/ThrillerJ. B. Hwang
A tender debut that follows a woman who, after her best friend's death, loses her faith and quits her job to join the postal service, quickly becoming an 'essential worker' as the city shuts down.--From the Publisher
187 pp. Hardcover - FictionScott 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. - HistoryJustin McDonnell
This mini pocket travel guidebook is perfect for travellers looking for essential information about Bologna. 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. - TravelDaniel 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 - TravelLibby 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. - TravelJoanna Reeves
This mini pocket Riga travel guidebook is perfect for travellers looking for essential information about Riga. 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. It's sustainably printed to ensure environmental responsibility.
144 pp. - TravelHonoree Fanonne Jeffers
The New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois and The Age of Phillis makes her nonfiction debut with this personal and thought-provoking work that explores the journeys and possibilities of Black women throughout American history and in contemporary times.
352 pp. - HistoryLedia 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. - FictionIna Garten
A collection of all-new soul-satisfying dishes from America’s favorite home cook!
256 pp. - MiscellaneousBakari Sellers
The New York Times bestselling author of My Vanishing Country examines the modern political landscape and policies that are impacting Black families and communities and offers solutions for a better tomorrow.
180 pp. - NonfictionPhilip E. Orbanes
An amazing true story of World War II that reveals how British and American military intelligence successfully smuggled escape aids into German P.O.W. camps hidden inside Monopoly game boards, and also the game’s surprising role in espionage.
285 pp. - HistoryArundhati 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 - BiographyBitter 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 - MiscellaneousSally Rooney
Sally Rooney is one of the most acclaimed young talents of recent years. With her minute attention to the power dynamics in everyday speech, she builds up sexual tension and throws a deceptively low-key glance at love and death.
33 pp. - FictionLaura Lippman
Highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman returns with an irresistible mystery featuring Muriel Blossom, a former private investigator and middle-aged widow whose vacation on a Parisian river cruise turns into a deadly international mystery…that only she can solve.
261 pp. - Mystery/ThrillerMarta Sanz
On an international flight to a writer’s conference, the writer Marta Sanz notices a tiny bump, something she calls a tick, on her chest, just below her clavicle, near her breast bone.
175 pp. - FictionFredrik 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. - FictionJacqueline 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. - MiscellaneousIsabel Allende
A riveting tale of self-discovery and love from one of the most masterful storytellers of our time, My Name Is Emilia del Valle introduces a character who will never let hold of your heart.
National Bestseller
287 pp. - FictionEmma Nanami Strenner
A missing child, two girls in search of their true identities--a stunning novel of mothers, daughters and best friends.
406 pp. - Fiction
Esther Freud
For as long as Lucy can remember, she's been caught between love for her rootless mother and devotion to her fierce and exacting sister, Bea. From their peripatetic childhood to their restless teenage years--hitching through rural Ireland, the move to a communal house--she's been forced to make a choice between these two very different ways of approaching life. But as the girls come of age and embark on their own experiments--in love, drugs, work, motherhood--Bea is at risk of drifting further and further away. Can their loyalty to each other transcend the damages of a past that feels almost too dangerous to examine?
277 pp. - FictionAndrew Katz
When his father’s suicide turns his life upside down, KJ fills his therapist-recommended grief journal with plenty of sarcasm, excerpts from sweary, punny high-school short stories, and fourth-wall-breaking asides. Through all the bravado and swagger, a portrait emerges of a young man confronting a dark past with genuine compassion and keen insight. He’s determined to reconcile with its legacy–and to survive.
300 pp. - FictionFlorence Knapp
With exceptional sensitivity and depth, Knapp draws us into the story of one family, told through a prism of what-ifs, causing us to consider the "one . . . precious life" we are given. The book’s brilliantly imaginative structure, propulsive storytelling, and emotional, gut-wrenching power are certain to make The Names a modern classic.
328 pp. - FictionHelen 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 - FictionBarbara Ireland (Editor)
Wander the halls of Italy's Renaissance libraries, revel in the Sahara's imposing silence as described by Paul Bowles, or stroll the streets of Josephine Baker's Paris. The writers and photographers of The New York Times are your guides to the history, literature, art, or cuisine of a destination in 100 stories from the Cultured Traveler column.
679 pp. - TravelJames 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. - FictionLisa Jewell
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of None of This Is True comes “her best thriller yet” (Harlan Coben) about a young couple’s disappearance on a gorgeous summer night, and the mother who will never give up trying to find them.
Athenaeum Mystery Book Club Pick
416 pp. - Mystery/ThrillerMichael Connelly
Introducing Detective Stilwell: a cop relentlessly following his mission in the seemingly idyllic setting of Catalina Island.
343 pp. - Mystery/ThrillerJackie Domenus
When Jackie "came out" in 2014, right as the Trump era was revving up, she began paying closer attention to the inappropriate questions, uncomfortable reactions, and pointed assumptions about sexuality and gender she was witnessing and now experiencing firsthand. NO OFFENSE takes a magnifying glass to subtle moments that many people don't recognize as homophobic or transphobic, exploring the impact of microaggressions on LGBTQ+ folks. Blending personal essay and cultural critique, the collection confronts society's reactions to queerness at poignant moments in Jackie's life, from wedding planning to OBGYN appointments to the Pulse Nightclub Massacre, and beyond. Revealing the complex and tender moments that sculpted their identity from a tomboy adolescence to gender exploration as an adult, NO OFFENSE analyzes the loaded conversations queer and trans folks face every day on topics like labels, haircuts, Halloween costumes, and more.
184 pp. - BiographyDavid 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 & DesignC. Daly King
The discovery of a corpse turns a cross-country train journey into a closed-circle hunt for a killer.
344 pp. - Mystery/ThrillerFrederick 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/ThrillerSteve 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. - HistoryJonathan 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. - FictionLucy Caldwell
From a passionate affair in Blitz-era London, to a highly charged Christmas party in Belfast, to a trip to Marrakech which could form a new family, the thirteen striking stories of Openings pulse with possibility and illuminate those fleeting but recognisable moments of heartbreak and hope that can change the course of a life.
238 pp. - FictionShubha Sunder
An elegantly inventive debut novel that offers a sharp new take on the immigrant story in post-9/11 America.
211 pp. - FictionNell Stevens
In a grand English country house in 1899, an aspiring art forger must unravel whether the man claiming to be her long-lost cousin is an impostor.
328 pp. - Fiction
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 - HistoryJulia Armfield
Leah is changed. Months earlier, she left for a routine expedition, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. Barely eating and lost in her thoughts, Leah rotates between rooms in their apartment, running the taps morning and night. As Miri searches for answers, desperate to understand what happened below the water, she must face the possibility that the woman she loves is slipping from her grasp. By turns elegiac and furious, wry and heartbreaking, Our Wives Under the Sea is a genre-bending exploration of the depths of love and grief at the heart of a marriage.
Athenaeum Read with Us Book Club Pick; Finalist for the LAMBDA Literary Award & Goodreads Choice Award
228 pp. - FictionZara 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. - HistorySimon Tolkien
A young man comes of age and crosses continents in search of an identity—and a cause—at the dawn of the Spanish Civil War in a thrilling, timely, and emotional historical saga.
453 pp. - FictionJoe 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)Edward St. Aubyn
From the bestselling and award-winning author of the Patrick Melrose novels, a hilarious and moving story about a group of wildly different characters whose fates are improbably yet inextricably linked—a novel about extinction and survival, inheritance and loss, written with St. Aubyn’s trademark wit and inimitable style
264 pp. - FictionIain 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
Hiro Arikawa
Welcome aboard the Hankyu Line train!
Come along on a heartwarming, funny, and perfectly cozy voyage with the charming and relatable passengers—including one dashing dachshund—whose lives intersect and affect each other on one of Japan’s most romantic railway lines from international bestselling author Hiro Arikawa.
234 pp. - FictionRobert L. Thompson
Attempts to answer the vexing question of why the great preponderance of America’s patterned brick architecture is located in the ancient colony of West New Jersey, a land mass covering roughly half of present-day New Jersey. Thompson expands his story well beyond southern New Jersey, beginning in England, searching for the antecedents, both practical and artistic, to this folk-art. He also examines the patterned brick architecture found in other American colonies and its meaning vis-a-vis those building found in West New Jersey.
194 pp. - HistoryPaul 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 NovelEmily 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. - HistoryJason Mott
People Like Us is Jason Mott’s electric new novel. It is not memoir, yet it has deeply personal connections to Jason’s life. And while rooted in reality, it explodes with dreamlike experiences that pull a reader in and don’t let go, from the ability to time travel to sightings of sea monsters and peacocks, and feelings of love and memory so real they hurt.
270 pp. - FictionCecil Baker
Cecil Baker has designed some of the most prominent buildings in Philadelphia's recent history. Moving fluidly between scales, building types, and price points, his office helped shape the evolution of Philadelphia's City Center and set modernist precedents in its traditionally minded suburbs and beyond. This collection contains 35 of his finest projects, all of which embody the ethos of "persuasion of place."
421 pp. - Art, Architecture & DesignKim 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. - HistoryAmerican Philosophical Society (Editor)
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Philadelphia, the revolutionary city, April 11-December 28, 2025.
108 pp. - HistoryStefano Mancuso
A renowned plant expert explains how we can make urgent, positive changes to our cities that protect against and reduce global warming.
196 pp. - NonfictionLauren 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 - TravelNanjala Nyabola
Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan an unforgettable trip to Stockholm.
160 pp. Paperback - TravelTsering Wangmo Dhompa
Tells the story of the Group of Thirteen, a collective of chieftains and lamas from the regions of Kham and Amdo, who sought to preserve Tibet’s cultural diversity in exile. A compelling narrative of a tumultuous time that reveals the complexities of Tibetan identities then and now.
349 pp. - HistorySusana 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 - BiographySharon Ann Musher
Promised Lands provides a window into the lives of American Jewish women in both New York City’s Upper West Side and Palestine during the interwar period.
263 pp. - BiographyMarshall Foletta
Explaining the deadly stasis of American medicine in the nineteenth century
270 pp. - HistoryAlice T. Friedman
A richly illustrated history of the glittering world of queer artistic life in the 1920s and ’30s.
269 pp. - HistoryWilliam 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/ThrillerJurica Pavičić
A woman disappears after a beach party, and the search for her reveals Croatia's complex history well beyond the fall of Communism.
317 pp. - Mystery/ThrillerBen 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.
Longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize
239 pp. Hardcover - FictionWally Lamb
#1 New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb, celebrated for two prior Oprah Book Club selections, returns with an exceptional third pick, a propulsive novel following a young father grappling with unbearable tragedy as he searches for hope, redemption, and the possibility of forgiveness.
466 pp. - FictionMadeline 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. - HistoryPadraic X. Scanlan
A “vigorous and engaging” (Fintan O’Toole, New Yorker) new history of the Irish Great Famine, showing how the British Empire caused Ireland’s most infamous disaster
340 pp. - HistoryRough 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. - TravelKevin Wilson
An unexpected road trip across America brings a family together, in this raucous and moving new novel from the bestselling author of Nothing to See Here.
244 pp. - FictionStephanie L. Herdrich
A fascinating look at John Singer Sargent’s formative years as a young painter in Paris, a city that helped forge his artistic identity and sparked his rise to the pinnacle of the nineteenth-century art world.
255 pp. - Art, Architecture & DesignKathy Wang
How do we live so that we are satisfied? How can people connect during moments of loneliness? This is the story of Joan Liang, a woman who moves across the world to America, and in trying to answer these questions builds a wildly original life.
340 pp. - FictionAnthony 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 - TravelHeather Clark
From the award-winning author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, a stunning debut novel: the story of an intense first love haunted by history and family memory, inspired by the startling WWII scrapbook of Clark’s own grandfather, hidden in an attic until after his death.
244 pp. - FictionBenoît 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. - MiscellaneousClaire Gleeson
Show Me Where It Hurts is a compelling, heartbreaking and ultimately life-affirming story of recovery and unexpected hope.
246 pp. - FictionLynne 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. - BiographyKatie 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 & DesignHonor Jones
From a dazzling new talent, the story of a newly divorced young mother forced to reckon with the secrets of her own childhood when she brings her daughters back to the big house where she was raised.
262 pp. - FictionJess 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. - FictionMike McCormack
A masterwork that builds its own style and language one broken line at a time; the result is a visionary accounting of the now.
Longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize; Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize; Winner of the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year; An Irish Times Book Club Choice
217 pp. - FictionLydi Conklin
A suspenseful, wildly engaging debut novel by the award-winning author of Rainbow Rainbow, following a musician spiraling in self-doubt and self-searching after a night—and a relationship—gone wrong.
Longlisted for Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize
358 pp. - FictionTash 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. - FictionMolly 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. - PoliticsAlison 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 NovelJohn Seabrook
The riveting saga of the Seabrook Family, by one of The New Yorker’s most acclaimed storytellers.
346 pp. - BiographySteven 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. - MiscellaneousAndrey Kurkov
In the follow-up to The Silver Bone, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2024, Samson Kolechko must rescue his kidnapped fiancée while investigating the illegal sale of meat in lawless 1920s Kyiv— based on a real-life case.
318 pp. - Mystery/ThrillerKristin Harmel
Kristin Harmel, the New York Times bestselling author who “is the best there is at sweeping historical drama” (Kelly Harms, author of The Seven Day Switch), returns with an electrifying new novel about two jewel thieves, a priceless bracelet that disappears in 1940s Paris, and a quest for answers in a decades-old murder.
376 pp. - FictionLeo 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 - HistoryMichael 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. - HistoryMasashi Matsuie
This prize-winning debut novel offers a compelling, insightful portrait of modern Japan through a group of architects competing to design a major new building in Tokyo.
395 pp. - FictionChloe Michelle Howarth
Two lovers are locked in a passionate game of cat and mouse. But instead of rules, this game has dark secrets, forbidden desires, inevitable betrayals, and cold-blooded murder.
288 pp. - FictionCorey 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 & DesignBenjamin Hoff
An utterly unique and accessible introduction to the ancient principles of Taoism with the world's favourite bear, Winnie-the-Pooh and his friend Piglet.
158 pp. - NonfictionWinsome Bingham (Author), E. B. Lewis (Illustrator)
From award-winning creators Winsome Bingham and E.B. Lewis, The Walk (A Stroll to the Poll) is a powerful picture book story celebrating a journey crucial to our democracy: the walk to vote. Perfect for sharing with young readers during election season.
40 pp. - YouthTochi Eze
This Kind of Trouble asks us to consider the ways we are all beholden to the past, and what we owe the future. With this debut novel, Tochi Eze announces herself as a major new literary voice in world literature"-- Provided by publisher.
308 pp. - FictionEsther Ifesinachi Okonkwo
A heart-rending debut novel about a Nigerian immigrant as she tries to find her place at home and in America--a powerful epic about love, grief, family, and belonging.
276 pp. - FictionRob Rinder
When hero policeman Grant Cliveden dies from a poisoning in the Old Bailey, it threatens to shake the country to its core. The evidence points to one man. Jimmy Knight has been convicted of multiple offences before and defending him will be no easy task. Not least because this is trainee barrister Adam Green's first case. But it will quickly become clear that Jimmy Knight is not the only person in Cliveden's past with an axe to grind. The only thing that's certain is that this is a trial which will push Adam - and the justice system itself - to the limit...
359 pp. - Mystery/ThrillerTripp 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. - BiographyGraham Swift
An exquisite new collection of stories from the Booker Prize–winning author, about lives shaped and haunted by war.
289 pp. - FictionJeana 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 & DesignPaul Andrew Hutton
From the author of The Apache Wars, the true story of the American West, revealing how American ambition clashed with the realities of violence and exploitation
565 pp. - HistoryNatasha 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. - FictionDervla McTiernan
For years the boglands of Northern Europe have given up bodies of the long-deceased. Bodies that are thousands of years old, uncannily preserved. Bodies with strange injuries that suggest ritual torture and human sacrifice. When a corpse is found in a bog in Galway, Cormac Reilly assumes the find is historical. But closer examination reveals a more recent story. The dead man is Thaddeus Grey, a local secondary school principal who disappeared two years prior. There's nothing in Grey's past that would explain why he was murdered, or why his body was mutilated in a ritual manner. At first, progress on the case is frustratingly slow and Cormac struggles to keep his mind on the job. His ex-girlfriend, Emma Sweeney, is in trouble, and she's reached out to him for help - Emma's new husband has gone missing in Paris, and the French police are refusing to open an investigation into his disappearance. Cormac is sure that he has found Grey's killer, and is within hours of an arrest, when another mutilated body is discovered on the other side of the country. Two days later, a third body is found. Press attention is intense. Is there a serial killer at work in Ireland? Has Cormac been on the wrong trail? And if so, can he find the murderer before they strike again?
360 pp. - Mystery/ThrillerLisa Scottoline
An international bestselling author crafts a gothic “thriller with dashes of romance and excellent twists!” (Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author) in which a young widow inherits a Tuscan estate from a mysterious benefactor and finds herself thrust into the crosshairs of a dangerous conspiracy---twisty, transportive, and haunting, this is suspense with a passport.
390 pp. - Mystery/ThrillerGary Shteyngart
A poignant, sharp-eyed, and bitterly funny tale of a family struggling to stay together in a country rapidly coming apart, told through the eyes of their wondrous ten-year-old daughter, by the bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story and Our Country Friends
243 pp. - FictionThomas Enger, Jørn Lier Horst
A cold case returns to haunt Blix, as a cold-blooded killer taunts him with evidence of further victims, while Ramm investigates a murder with no body… Blockbuster, explosive, No. 1 bestselling Nordic Noir.
342 pp. - Mystery/ThrillerPhoebe 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 - FictionKarin Slaughter
The first thrilling mystery in the new North Falls series from Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Girls and the Will Trent Series.
Welcome to North Falls—a small town where everyone knows everyone. Or so they think.
438 pp. - Mystery/ThrillerKristen L. Berry
A dedicated journalist unearths a generations-old family secret—and a connection to a string of missing girls that hits way too close to home—in this “nail-biting debut” (Booklist).
328 pp. - FictionJanelle Brown
A teenage girl breaks free from her father’s world of isolation to discover that her whole life is a lie in this “absorbing and well-crafted” (The Washington Post) novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Things and Watch Me Disappear.
353 pp. - FictionJordan Thomas
A hotshot firefighter’s gripping firsthand account of a record-setting fire season.
350 pp. - NonfictionElaine Hsieh Chou
"In these eight singular stories that pivot seamlessly from the terrible to the beautiful to the surreal, Elaine Hsieh Chou peels back the tales we tell ourselves to peer beneath them: at our unspoken desires, our self-deceptions and our capacity for cruelty, both to ourselves and each other"-- Provided by publisher.
337 pp. Hardcover - FictionJessica Waite
A lyrical exploration of mental health, single parenthood, and betrayal that demonstrates that the most moving love stories aren’t perfect—they’re flawed and poignantly real.
309 pp. - BiographySue Prideaux
An original and revealing portrait of the misunderstood French Post-Impressionist artist.
Shortlisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize
401 pp. - Art, Architecture & DesignPhilip Hoare
A revelatory and joyous exploration of how one visionary inspired two-hundred years of art, poetry and protest by the acclaimed author of Albert and the Whale
453 pp. - NonfictionRiley Sager
One train. No stops. A deadly game of survival and revenge.
Instant New York Times Bestseller
382 pp. - FictionRuth Ware
In this follow-up to #1 New York Times bestselling author Ruth Ware’s multi-million copy mega-hit The Woman in Cabin 10, Lo Blacklock returns to attend the opening of a luxury hotel, only to find herself in a white-knuckled race across Europe.
387 pp. - FictionLynn Ellsworth
This book is an essential read for urban planners, policymakers, and anyone interested in the future of urban living. Ellsworth’s clear, accessible insights into complex issues make Wonder City a vital contribution to the discourse on urban development, appealing to a broad audience that cares about the dynamics and future of city life.
374 pp. - NonfictionAdam Moss
From former editor of New York magazine Adam Moss, a collection of illuminating conversations examining the very personal, rigorous, complex, and elusive work of making art.
New York Times bestseller; one of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2024
Carol Goodman
In the latest thrilling suspense novel from Mary Higgins Clark Award–winning author Carol Goodman, a group of mystery authors gathers on a secluded Greek island for a writers retreat, only to discover that their enigmatic host has been murdered and everyone present is a suspect.
258 pp. - FictionJonathan 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