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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

Abandoned and Forgotten Cemeteries of Philadelphia and its Environs
Ed Snyder

This book explores Philadelphia’s lost and neglected cemeteries, revealing a hidden history of change, decay, and restoration.

96 pp. - Nonfiction

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

The Allure of Elsewhere: A Memoir of Going Solo
Karen 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. - 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

Among Friends
Hal 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. - Fiction

Angelica: For Love and Country in a Time of Revolution
Molly Beer

A women-centric view of revolution through the life of Angelica Schuyler Church, Alexander Hamilton’s influential sister-in-law.

320 pp. - 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. - Nonfiction

Architecture For Cars: How cars shaped modern architecture
Christopher 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 & Design

Architectures of Slavery: Ruins and Reconstructions
Nathaniel Robert Walker, Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann (Editors)

The material legacies of slavery across the Atlantic world.

355 pp. - Art, Architecture & Design

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

Atmosphere: A Love Story
Taylor 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. - 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

Beautiful Nights
Nina 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. - Fiction

Before Gender: Lost Stories from Trans History, 1850-1950
Eli Erlick

Explore the trailblazing lives of 30 trans people who radically change everything you’ve been told about transgender history.

268 pp. - History

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

Beneath Our Feet: Everyday Discoveries Reshaping History
Michael 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. - Nonfiction

Beneath the Buried Sea
Victoria 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. - Fiction

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

Beyond the Aching Door
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/Thriller

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

Black Genius: Essays on an American Legacy
Tre 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. - Nonfiction

The Bombshell
Darrow 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. - Fiction

A Bookseller in Madrid
Mario 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. - Fiction

The Boy from the Sea
Garrett 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. - Fiction

Bring the House Down
Charlotte 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. - Fiction

Broken Country
Clare 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.

New York Times Bestseller; A Reese's Book Club Pick

307 pp. - Fiction

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

Camino Winds
John 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. - Fiction

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

Changing My Mind
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. - Nonfiction

The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature
Charlie 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. - History

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

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

The Clues in the Fjord
Satu 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/Thriller

Coffee Nation: How One Commodity Transformed the Early United States
Michelle Craig McDonald

Illuminates how coffee tied the economic future of the early United States to the wider Atlantic world.

271 pp. - History

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

Confessions
Kanae 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. - Fiction

The Convenience Store by the Sea
Sonoko 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. - Fiction

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

The Dark Hours
Amy 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/Thriller

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

A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes
Susan 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 & Design

Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life
Maggie 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. - Nonfiction

Death at the White Hart
Chris 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/Thriller

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

Death Takes Me
Cristina Rivera Garza

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Liliana's Invincible Summera dreamlike, genre-defying novel about a professor and detective seeking justice in a world suffused with gendered violence.

290 pp. - Fiction

Deep Cuts
Holly 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. - 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 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 Director
Daniel 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. - Fiction

Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place
Martin 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. - History

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 Doorman
Chris 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. - Fiction

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

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

An Enemy in the Village
Martin 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/Thriller

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

Eventually Everything Connects: Mid-Century Modern Design in the US
Andrew 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 & Design

Exit Zero
Marie-Helene Bertino

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

191 pp. - Fiction

An Eye for an Eye
Jeffrey 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/Thriller

Family Spirit
Diane 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. - Fiction

A Far Better Thing
H. 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.

416 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

Fever Beach
Carl 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. - Fiction

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.

Longlisted 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.

Longlisted 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

A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children
Haley 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. - Nonfiction

Fonseca
Jessica 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. - Fiction

Fresh, Green Life
Sebastian 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. - Fiction

The Game Is Murder
Hazell 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/Thriller

Gingko Season
Naomi 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. - Fiction

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

Golden Age Bibliomysteries
Otto Penzler

In these classic mystery tales, literature is a matter of life or death.

426 pp. - Mystery/Thriller

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

The Good Liar
Denise 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/Thriller

The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth
Adrian 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. - Fiction

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 Grave in the Ice
Satu 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/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 Miscalculation: The Race to Save New York City's Citicorp Tower
Michael M. Greenburg

How an engineering crisis threatened a career, a building, and the lives of countless New Yorkers.

237 pp. - Art, Architecture & Design

Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country
Cristina 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

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 Lamp
Banu 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.

Winner of the 2025 International Booker Prize

 

216 pp. - Fiction

Heart, Be at Peace
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. - Fiction

Her Final Gamble
Mary 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. - 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

Historic Building Mythbusting: Uncovering Folklore, History and Archaeology
James 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. - History

Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons
Jonathan Tarleton

A tale of 2 NYC affordable housing co-ops’ struggle over privatization, public goods, and the future of American housing

261 pp. - Nonfiction

The Human Scale
Lawrence 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. - Fiction

I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness
Irene Solà
162 pp. - Fiction

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'll Be Right Here
Amy 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. - Fiction

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

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)

An Inside Job
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/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

Invincible: Fathers and Mothers of Black America
Wade 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)

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 Killing Sense
Sam 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/Thriller

Killing Stella
Marlen 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

King Charles III: 40 Years of Architecture
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 & Design

King of Ashes
S. 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/Thriller

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?

Longlisted for the Booker Prize

373 pp. - Fiction

The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties
Dennis 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. - History

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

Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes
Leah 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. - Nonfiction

Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way
Elaine 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. - Fiction

The Letter Carrier
Francesca 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. - Fiction

Life and Art: Essays
Richard Russo

A marvelous new essay collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Somebody's Fool and The Destiny Thief.

189 pp. - Nonfiction

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

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

Lost Found Kept: A Memoir
Deborah 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. - Biography

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

Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar
Katie 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. - Fiction

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

The Manifesto House: Buildings that Changed the Future of Architecture
Owen 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 & Design

Marble Hall Murders
Anthony 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/Thriller

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

The Medusa Protocol
Rob Hart

Welcome back to Assassins Anonymous, the only twelve-step group where joining can be deadly.

306 pp. - Mystery/Thriller

Mendell Station: A Novel
J. 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 - Fiction

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 Bologna
Justin 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. - Travel

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

The Mini Rough Guide to Riga
Joanna 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. - 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

The Moment: Thoughts on the Race Reckoning That Wasn't and How We All Can Move Forward Now
Bakari 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. - Nonfiction

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

Monopoly X: How Top-Secret World War II Operations Used the Game of Monopoly to Help Allied POWs Escape, Conceal Spies, and Send Secret Codes
Philip 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. - History

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

Mr Salary
Sally 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. - Fiction

Murder Takes a Vacation
Laura 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/Thriller

My Clavicle: And Other Massive Misalignments
Marta 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. - Fiction

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 Name Is Emilia del Valle
Isabel 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. - Fiction

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

My Sister and Other Lovers
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. - Fiction

The Names
Florence 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. - Fiction

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

The New York Times Cultured Traveler: 100 Trips for Curious Minds from Agadir to Yogyakarta
Barbara 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. - Travel

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

The Night She Disappeared
Lisa 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/Thriller

Nightshade
Michael Connelly

Introducing Detective Stilwell: a cop relentlessly following his mission in the seemingly idyllic setting of Catalina Island.

343 pp. - Mystery/Thriller

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)

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

The Passengers on the Hankyu Line
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. - Fiction

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

People Like Us
Jason 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. - Fiction

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

Persuasion of Place: The Work of Cecil Baker Architect
Cecil 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 & Design

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

Phytopolis: The Living City
Stefano 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. - Nonfiction

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

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

Red Water
Jurica 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/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.

Longlisted 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 River Is Waiting
Wally 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. - Fiction

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

Run for the Hills
Kevin 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. - Fiction

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

Sargent and Paris
Stephanie 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 & Design

The Satisfaction Café
Kathy 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. - 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

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

Show Me Where it Hurts
Claire Gleeson

Show Me Where It Hurts is a compelling, heartbreaking and ultimately life-affirming story of recovery and unexpected hope.

246 pp. - 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

Solar Bones
Mike 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. - Fiction

Songs of No Provenance
Lydi 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. - Fiction

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

The Summer House
Masashi 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. - Fiction

Sunburn
Chloe 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. - Fiction

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

This Kind of Trouble: A Novel
Tochi 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. - Fiction

The Tiny Things Are Heavier
Esther 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. - Fiction

The Trial
Rob 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/Thriller

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

Twelve Post-War Tales
Graham Swift

An exquisite new collection of stories from the Booker Prize–winning author, about lives shaped and haunted by war.

289 pp. - Fiction

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

The Undiscovered Country: Triumph, Tragedy, and the Shaping of the American West
Paul 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. - History

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 Unquiet Grave
Dervla 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/Thriller

The Unraveling of Julia
Lisa 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/Thriller

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

Vera, or Faith
Gary 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. - Fiction

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

Victim
Thomas 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/Thriller

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 All Guilty Here
Karin 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/Thriller

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

We Don't Talk About Carol
Kristen 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. - Fiction

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