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100 Women: Architects in Practice
Harriet Harriss, Naomi House, Monika Parrinder, Tom Ravenscroft

By showcasing 100 exceptional architects - who happen to be women - this book provides a flagship reference to inspire and support everyone working in the profession, no matter how they identify. Global in outlook, the book presents an equitable sample of architects from every continent.

312 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

The Abyss
Fernando Vallejo

Winner of the Rómulo Gallego Prize, The Abyss is a caustic masterwork of incredible power and force, an unforgettable autobiographical work of queer fiction.

Translated from the Spanish by Yvette Siegert.

Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award in Translation

185 pp. Paperback - Fiction

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

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

242 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

All Our Ordinary Stories: A Multigenerational Family Odyssey
Teresa Wong

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

238 pp. Hardcover - Graphic Novel

All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art
Orlando Whitfield

A dazzling insider’s account of the contemporary art world and the stunning rise and fall of the charismatic American art dealer Inigo Philbrick, as seen through the eyes of his friend and fellow dealer.

In development as a series for HBO

323 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

All the Colors of the Dark
Chris Whitaker

From the author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an epic love story that “hits like a sledgehammer . . . an absolutely must-read novel” (Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl).

National Bestseller; A Read with Jenna Pick

595 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War
H. W. Brands

Bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands narrates the fierce debate over America's role in the world in the runup to World War II through its two most important figures: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who advocated intervention, and his isolationist nemesis, aviator and popular hero Charles Lindbergh.

464 pp. Hardcover - History

The Anthropologists
Aysegül Savas

"Like Walter Benjamin, Aysegül Savas uncovers trapdoors to bewilderment everywhere in everyday life; like Henry James, she sees marriage as a mystery, unsoundably deep. The Anthropologists is mesmerizing; I felt I read it in a single breath." -Garth Greenwell

192 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy
Vishaan Chakrabarti

From one of today’s most inspired architects and urban advocates, a manifesto for architecture as a force for addressing our biggest social challenges.

280 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media
Darrell Hartman

A sixty-year saga of frostbite and fake news that follows the no-holds-barred battle between two legendary explorers to reach the North Pole, and the newspapers which stopped at nothing to get–and sell–the story.

One of New York Times Book Review’s "100 Notable Books of 2023"

387 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

Be Ready When the Luck Happens
Ina Garten

In her long-awaited memoir, Ina Garten—aka the Barefoot Contessa, author of thirteen bestselling cookbooks, beloved Food Network personality, Instagram sensation, and cultural icon—shares her personal story with readers hungry for a seat at her table.

#1 New York Times Bestseller

306 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Bear
Julia Phillips

From the celebrated author of Disappearing Earth comes a tale of family, obsession, and a mysterious creature in the woods—“a mesmerizing story about hope, sisterhood, and survival with a truly shocking twist at the end” (People)

National Bestseller

286 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Book #1 in Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series

Heartwarming, wistful, mysterious and delightfully quirky, Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s internationally bestselling novel explores the age-old question: What would you change if you could travel back in time?

Meet more wonderful characters in the rest of the captivating Before the Coffee Gets Cold series:

272 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Before We Forget Kindness
Toshikazu Kawaguchi

In the fifth book in the sensational, cozy Before the Coffee Gets Cold series translated from Japanese, the mysterious café where customers arrive hoping to travel back in time welcomes four new guests.

235 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Beggar’s Bedlam
Nabarun Bhattacharya

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

301 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde
Lynn Gumpert, Marianne Le Morvan, Anne Grace, Stéphane Aquin, Claire Bernardi, Robert Parker, Charles Dellheim, Sophie Eloy, Kirsten Pai Buick, Ambre Gauthier

This book offers a rich introduction to the life and work of art dealer Berthe Weill—the risk-taking, rule-breaking facilitator of the modernist art movement in Paris.

205 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Black Butterflies
Priscilla Morris

A timeless story of strife and hope set during the conflict in the Balkans in the early '90s—a searing debut novel about a woman who faces the war on her doorstep with courage, fierceness, and an unshakable belief in the power of art.

Shortlisted for The Women's Prize for Fiction

275 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics
Elle Reeve

This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We’re Polarized—reveals how the battle between the right and left is spilling out from the darkest corners of the internet into the real world with often tragic consequences.

283 pp. Hardcover - Politics

The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America
Aaron Robertson

A lyrical meditation on how Black Americans have envisioned utopia―and sought to transform their lives.

A New York Times Editors' Choice

382 pp. Hardcover - History

Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health
Marty Makary M.D.

From Johns Hopkins medical expert Dr. Marty Makary, the New York Times-bestselling author of The Price We Pay, an eye-opening look at the medical groupthink that has led to public harm, and what you need to know about your health.

288 pp. Hardcover - Science

A Blood Red Morning
Mark Pryor

Henri Lefort Mysteries Book #3

In this unputdownable WWII series, Paris detective Henri Lefort, must solve a complex case when a man is murdered on the policeman's own doorstep.

292 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

The Blue Hour
Paula Hawkins

A masterful novel that is as page-turning as it is unsettling, The Blue Hour recalls the sophisticated suspense of Shirley Jackson and Patricia Highsmith and cements Hawkins’s place among the very best of our most nuanced and stylish storytellers. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train.

A Good Morning Ameria Book Club Pick

303 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Blue Light Hours
Bruna Dantas Lobato

From the National Book Award-winning translator, an atmospheric and wise debut novel of a young Brazilian woman’s first year in America, a continent away from her lonely mother, and the relationship they build over Skype calls across borders.

178 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Body Phobia: The Western Roots of Our Fear of Difference
Dianna E. Anderson

Body Phobia is an examination of the western societal fear of the body. Starting with an excavation of the religious roots of this fear, Dianna Anderson then zooms out to show how fear of bodies permeates all parts of culture, influencing who gets to be perceived as more than their body, and who does not.

158 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
Elyse Graham

The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the war.

400 pp. Hardcover - History

The Book Censor's Library
Bothayna Al-Essa

A perilous and fantastical satire of banned books, secret archives, and the looming eye of an all-powerful government.

Translated from the Arabic by Ranya Abdelrahman & Sawad Hussain.

Finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature.

261 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Book Swap
Tessa Bickers

A story of second chances and new beginnings, this is a love letter to books—and a love letter to life.

321 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives
Adam Smyth

A scholar and bookmaker “breathes both books-as-objects and their creators back into life” (Financial Times) in this five-hundred-year history of printed books, told through the people who created them.

383 pp. Hardcover - Biography

The Booklover's Library
Madeline Martin

A heartwarming story about a mother and daughter in wartime England and the power of books that bring them together, by the bestselling author of The Last Bookshop in London.

400 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
Evan Friss

An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cultural life, from department stores to indies, from highbrow dealers trading in first editions to sidewalk vendors, and from chains to special-interest community destinations.

416 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

Bright I Burn
Molly Aitken

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

Irish Bestseller

253 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Bright Objects
Ruby Todd

A young widow grapples with the arrival of a once-in-a-lifetime comet and its tumultuous consequences, in a debut novel that blends mystery, astronomy, and romance, perfect for fans of Emma Cline’s The Girls and Ottessa Moshfegh’s Death in Her Hands.

344 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Bright Sword
Lev Grossman

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Magicians trilogy returns with a triumphant reimagining of the King Arthur legend for the new millennium.

683 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Brightly Shining
Ingvild Rishøi

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

182 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

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

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

277 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Broiler
Eli Cranor

The troubles of two desperate families—one white, one Mexican American—converge in the ruthless underworld of an Arkansas chicken processing plant in this new thriller from the award-winning author of Don't Know Tough.

322 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

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

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

270 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

By Any Other Name
Jodi Picoult

From the New York Times bestselling co-author of Mad Honey comes an “inspiring” (Elle) novel about two women, centuries apart—one of whom is the real author of Shakespeare’s plays—who are both forced to hide behind another name.

525 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
Rebecca Nagle

A powerful work of reportage and American history that braids the story of the forced removal of Native Americans onto treaty lands in the nation’s earliest days, and a small-town murder in the 1990s that led to a Supreme Court ruling reaffirming Native rights to that land more than a century later.

352 pp. Hardcover - History

Camino Ghosts
John Grisham

John Grisham takes you back to Camino Island, where bookseller Bruce Cable and novelist Mercer Mann always manage to find trouble in paradise.

#1 New York Times Bestseller

292 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Canoes
Maylis De Kerangal

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

197 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Catalina
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulnerable student at an elite college, forced to navigate an opaque past, an uncertain future, tragedies on two continents, and the tantalizing possibilities of love and freedom.

Longlisted for the National Book Award; National Bestseller

204 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

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

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

270 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

The Causative Factor
Megan Staffel

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

213 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Charles J. Connick: America’s Visionary Stained Glass Artist
Peter Cormack

The first comprehensive account of Charles J. Connick, America’s most innovative and influential stained glass artist working in the first half of the twentieth century

376 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Christmas Crimes at The Mysterious Bookshop
Otto Penzler (Editor)

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

320 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Christopher Isherwood Inside Out
Katherine Bucknell

A stunningly intimate exploration of the writer and gay cultural icon and of his lifelong search for authenticity.

864 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church
Eliza Griswold

From the Pulitzer Prize winner Eliza Griswold, Circle of Hope is an intimate portrait of a church, its radical mission, and its riveting crisis.

Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction.

336 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

Citizen: My Life After the White House
Bill Clinton

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

446 pp. Hardcover - Biography

The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Haruki Murakami

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

New York Times Bestseller

449 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Cliffs
J. Courtney Sullivan

A novel of family, secrets, ghosts, and homecoming set on the seaside cliffs of Maine, by the New York Times best-selling author of Friends and Strangers.

Reese's Book Club Pick

443 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Coin
Yasmin Zaher

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling as she teaches at a New York City middle school, gets caught up in a scheme reselling Birkin bags, and strives to gain control over her body and mind.

240 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Colored Television
Danzy Senna

A brilliant dark comedy about love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial- identity-industrial complex from the bestselling author of Caucasia.

Good Morning America Book Club Pick

276 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda
Carrie Rickey

The first major biography of the French filmmaker hailed by Martin Scorsese as “one of the Gods of cinema.”

272 pp. Hardcover - Biography

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

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

276 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Cradle of Conservation: An Environmental History of Pennsylvania
Allen Dieterich-Ward

Cradle of Conservation moves across time and place, from the Haudenosaunee people of the Susquehanna Valley, to the iron furnaces of nineteenth-century Pittsburgh, to the diesel trucks on the twentieth-century Pennsylvania Turnpike. In addition, Dieterich-Ward explores the histories of Philadelphia’s Schuylkill River and the state’s anthracite region and traces the environmental movements and crises that have led to public policy changes in the face of climate change.

131 pp. Paperback - History

The Crafted World of Wharton Esherick
Sarah Archer, Colin Fanning, Ann Glasscock, Holly Gore, Emily Zilber

Widely celebrated as the father of the Studio Furniture Movement, Wharton Esherick is one of the most important furniture designers of the twentieth century. Presenting his preserved hillside house and studio, this book showcases seven decades of innovative woodwork and sculpture, embodying his influence on American art and design. Principal photography by Joshua McHugh.

221 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Creation Lake
Rachel Kushner

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, comes a new novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France—a propulsive page-turner of glittering insights and dark humor.

Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, Longlisted for the National Book Award

416 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Dark, Dirty, Dangerous: Building the Vibrant Future of Manufacturing
Karla Trotman

From the brilliant mind of entrepreneur, business owner, and Black generational wealth advocate Karla Trotman, emerges a thought-leadership book unlike any other.

172 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

David Rowland: 40/4 Chair
Erwin Rowland, Laura Schenone

David Rowland was a pioneering Mid-Century designer. Born in 1924 in Hollywood, California, he studied at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. His elegant, perfectly engineered 40/4 chair is one of the most significant and masterful designs of the 20th century.

239 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Dead Sweet
Katrín Júlíusdóttir

When a celebrated government official is found dead after his surprise birthday party, a young police officer uncovers a terrifying world of financial crime, sinister cults and disturbing secret lives. Icelandic politician Katrín Júlíusdóttir's award-winning, breathtaking debut, and first in a chilling series.

239 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Death at the Sign of the Rook
Kate Atkinson

A Jackson Brodie Book #6

The highly anticipated return of "irresistible" (New York Timesprivate eye Jackson Brodie in the newest installment of the bestselling series hailed as "unputdownable" by Time.

307 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

A Death in Cornwall
Daniel Silva

#1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva delivers another stunning thriller in his action-packed tale of high stakes international intrigue.

480 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Design through Time: Evolving Landscapes, from Alcatraz to Prospect Park
Mark H. Hough

A dynamic look at landscape design that reflects its status as an art form that is ever changing, never static.

370 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning
Eli Burnstein

For fans of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows or Foyle's Philavery: A Treasury of Unusual WordsDictionary of Fine Distinctions promises to be a cherished addition to the genre that offers clarity, joy, and a deeper appreciation for the subtleties of the English language. The quintessential librarian gift and English teacher gift, it’s an educational odyssey that’s as entertaining as it is enlightening.

 

201 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

Didion & Babitz
Lili Anolik

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

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

344 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World
Edward Dolnick

From the bestselling author of The Clockwork Universe and The Writing of the Gods, a historical adventure story about the eccentric Victorians who discovered dinosaur bones, leading to a whole new understanding of human history.

352 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs
Benjamin Herold

Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools.

483 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

Dogs and Monsters
Mark Haddon

Eight mesmerizingly imaginative, deeply-humane stories that use Greek myths and contemporary dystopian narratives to examine mortality, moral choices and the many variants of love.

272 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

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

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

222 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

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

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

235 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

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

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

291 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Elaine
Will Self

The Booker-shortlisted author of Umbrella writes his most American novel yet—a brilliant portrait of a 1950s housewife, based on the life of the author’s mother, and an exploration of sexual freedom and sublimated desire.

290 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
Dava Sobel

The acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Galileo’s Daughter crafts a luminous chronicle of the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science, and the untold story of the many young women trained in her laboratory who were launched into stellar scientific careers of their own.

318 pp. Hardcover - Science

The Empusium
Olga Tokarczuk

The Nobel Prize winner’s latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas.

Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.

300 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The End of Drum-Time
Hanna Pylväinen

An epic love story in the vein of Cold Mountain and The Great Circle, about a young reindeer herder and a minister’s daughter in the nineteenth century Arctic Circle. 

Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award 

349 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Ends of Collage
Yuval Etgar (Editor)

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

235 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

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

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

253 pp. Hardcover - History

Enlightenment
Sarah Perry

From the author of The Essex Serpent, a dazzling novel of love and astronomy told over the course of twenty years through the lives of two improbable best friends.

Booker Prize Longlist

376 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Entitlement
Rumaan Alam

A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind.

288 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Evenings and Weekends
Oisín McKenna

For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a stunning debut that follows a vibrant multi-generational cast of characters through a London heatwave as their simmering tensions and secrets come to a head over a feverish, life-changing weekend.

344 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Every Arc Bends Its Radian
Sergio De La Pava

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

265 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Everyday Knitting
Megan Goodacre

Learn how to knit with simple, easy-to-follow guides and over 20 cute and cozy project patterns!

272 pp. Hardcover - Miscellaneous

Everything We Never Had
Randy Ribay

From the author of the National Book Award finalist for Patron Saints of Nothing comes an emotionally charged, moving novel about four generations of Filipino American boys grappling with identity, masculinity, and their fraught father-son relationships.

 

288 pp. Hardcover - Youth

Exposure
Ramona Emerson

A Rita Todacheene Novel Book #2

In the follow-up to the National Book Award–longlisted ShutterNavajo forensic photographer Rita Todacheene grapples with a fanatical serial killer—and the ghosts he leaves behind.

279 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World
Christine Rosen

A reflective, original invitation to recover and cultivate the human experiences that have atrophied in our virtual world.

258 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

Familiaris
David Wroblewski

The follow-up to the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling modern classic The Story of Edgar SawtelleFamiliaris is the stirring origin story of the Sawtelle family and the remarkable dogs that carry the Sawtelle name.

Oprah's Book Club Pick

979 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Finding Otipemisiwak: The People Who Own Themselves
Andrea Currie

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

269 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Fire with Fire
Candice Fox

A pair of desperate parents. A man on the run. A rookie cop. Four people with everything on the line. What will be left in the ashes of the next 24 hours?

314 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

First in the Family: A Story of Survival, Recovery, and the American Dream
Jessica Hoppe

An unflinching and intimate memoir of recovery by Jessica Hoppe, Latinx writer, advocate, and creator of NuevaYorka.

272 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Fog at Noon
Tomás González

A perceptive whodunnit set in the shimmering mountain ranches of Colombia, told by a bewitching cast of potential perpetrators. Translated from the Spanish by Andrea Rosenberg.

220 pp. Paperback - Fiction

Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
John Grisham, Jim McCloskey

In John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, “the master of the legal thriller” (Associated Press) teams up with Jim McCloskey, “the godfather of the innocence movement” (Texas Monthly), to share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions.

New York Times Bestseller

 

346 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

Frighten the Horses
Oliver Radclyffe

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

344 pp. Hardcover - Biography

The Full Moon Coffee Shop
Mai Mochizuki

Translated from the Japanese bestseller, a charming and magical novel that reminds us it’s never too late to follow our stars.

228 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me
Glory Edim

A “dramatic [and] ingeniously crafted” (Los Angeles Times) memoir of family, community, and resilience, and an ode to the power of books to help us understand ourselves, from the renowned founder of Well-Read Black Girl.

265 pp. Hardcover - Biography

The Ghost Cat
Alex Howard

A charming novel for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and How to Stop Time, following a cat through his nine lives in Edinburgh, moving through the ever-changing city and meeting its inhabitants over centuries.

256 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

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

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

312 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Gilead
Marilynne Robinson

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award, Gilead. is a hymn of praise and lamentation to the God-haunted existence that Reverend Ames loves passionately, and from which he will soon part

247 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Gilt Frame
Matt Kindt, Margie Kraft Kindt

A classic whodunit murder mystery that spans the globe from Paris to Hawaii to Montenegro as we hustle to keep up with the most unlikely murder-solving duo in the history of murder-solvers.

56 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Golden Age Whodunits
Otto Penzler

In this volume, Edgar Award–winning anthologist Otto Penzler collects some of the finest American whodunits of the era, including household names and welcome rediscoveries. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ellery Queen, and Mary Roberts Rinehart are all included, as are Ring Lardner, Melville Davisson Post, and Helen Reilly. The result is a cross section of the whodunit tale in the years that made it a staple in mystery fiction.

406 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Graveyard Shift
M. L. Rio

The author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night shift workers who meet in the local cemetery to unearth the secrets lurking in an open grave.

126 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Grey Wolf
Louise Penny

The 19th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series.

421 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

The Guests
Agnes Ravatn

A married couple borrows a luxurious home on the Norwegian fjords, entangling themselves in a web of lies when they pretend to be the owners. Chilling, darkly funny psychological suspense by the author of The Bird Tribunal.

211 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Guiltless
Viveca Sten

Sandhamn Murders Book #3

The tiny Swedish island of Sandhamn has always been a haven for lawyer Nora Linde. With trouble brewing in her marriage, she finds its comforts more welcome than ever, even in the depths of winter. That is, until her two young sons trip across a severed arm in the woods.

353 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Heavyweight: A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory
Solomon J. Brager

A moving and provocative graphic memoir exploring inherited trauma, family history, and the ever-shifting understanding of our own identities, for readers of Gender Queer and I Was Their American Dream.

308 pp. Hardcover - Graphic Novel

Held
Anne Michaels

A breathtaking and ineffable new novel from the author of the international best sellers Fugitive Pieces and The Winter Vault—a novel of love and loyalty across generations, at once sweeping and intimate. 

Booker Prize Longlist

219 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Hidden Book
Kirsty Manning

From bestselling author Kirsty Manning comes a stunning novel based on a true story of clandestine courage in World War II as prisoners of war risk their lives to secure evidence of Nazi atrocities—and how one man concealed it for decades before passing it on to his family who struggle to understand their inherited legacy of trauma.

296 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Honolulu Noir
Chris McKinney (Editor)

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

274 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

House of Glass
Sarah Pekkanen

The next thrilling novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah Pekkanen

340 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

How to Stand Up to a Dictator
Maria Ressa

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

301 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Hum
Helen Phillips

Written in taut, urgent prose, Hum is a work of speculative fiction that unflinchingly explores marriage, motherhood, and selfhood in a world compromised by global warming and dizzying technological advancement, a world of both dystopian and utopian possibilities.

272 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Human Acts
Han Kang

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

Winner of the 2024 Novel Prize in Literature

226 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Hypocrite
Jo Hamya

From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a novel set between the London stage and Sicily, about a daughter who turns her novelist father’s fall from grace into a play, and a father who increasingly fears his precocious daughter’s voice.

233 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

I Am Maroon: The True Story of an American Political Prisoner
Russell Shoatz, Kanya D'Almeida

In this cinematic memoir, follow one man’s journey from gang member to Black liberation leader to political prisoner–and the justice and redemption he fought for along the way.

400 pp. Hardcover - Biography

I Dreamed of Falling
Julia Dahl

In acclaimed author Julia Dahl's new standalone, the death of a young mother triggers an avalanche of secrets in a small Hudson Valley town.

344 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

I. M. Pei: Life Is Architecture
Shirley Surya, Aric Chen

Going beyond the usual building-by-building format of most architectural monographs, I. M. Pei: Life Is Architecture is organized thematically, exploring Pei's life and work through six topics that were central to his unique approach to architecture: transcultural identity, urban redevelopment, art and civic form, material and structural innovation, politics and patronage, and regenerating cultural and historical archetypes.

400 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

The Importance of Being Furnished: Four Bachelors at Home
R. Tripp Evans

Enter the private world of four New England bachelors, men who transformed their homes - now all public museums - into personal artistic statements.

201 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell

Two kids race to save the world’s last magical place in the first book of a landmark new fantasy series.

#1 New York Times Bestseller

358 pp. Hardcover - Youth

In Too Deep
Lee Child, Andrew Child

Jack Reacher Book #29

The gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child.

324 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist
Richard Munson

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

240 pp. Hardcover - History

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

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

364 pp. Hardcover - History

The Instrumentalist
Harriet Constable

A stunning debut novel of music, intoxication, and betrayal inspired by the true story of Anna Maria della Pietà, a Venetian orphan and violin prodigy who studied under Antonio Vivaldi and ultimately became his star musician—and his biggest muse.

324 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Interference: The Inside Story of Trump, Russia, and the Mueller Investigation
Aaron Zebley, James Quarles, Andrew Goldstein

The behind-the-scenes story of the investigation that shook America to its core—the Mueller investigation that presented the evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election—as told by Robert Mueller’s closest colleagues, including never-before-revealed details into how the team investigated Putin’s campaign to favor candidate Donald Trump and Trump’s efforts to interfere in the investigation.

259 pp. Hardcover - Politics

Intermezzo
Sally Rooney

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family―but especially love―from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.

New York Times Bestseller

464 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Interpretations of Love
Jane Campbell

A profound debut novel that explores complicated love, secrets, and familial misunderstandings from the celebrated octogenarian author of the “trail-blazing” (Oprah Daily) collection Cat Brushing.

229 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

J. L. Petit: Britain's Lost Pre-Impressionist
Philip Modiano

J. L. Petit: Britain's lost pre-impressionist

119 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

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

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

351 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

John Lewis: A Life
David Greenberg

A comprehensive, authoritative biography of Civil Rights icon John Lewis, “the conscience of the Congress,” drawing on interviews with Lewis and approximately 275 others who knew him at various stages of his life, as well as never-before-used FBI files and documents.

696 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Karla's Choice
Nick Harkaway

A John le Carré Novel 

An extraordinary new novel set in the world of John le Carré's most iconic spy, George Smiley, written by acclaimed novelist Nick Harkaway

300 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation
Brenda Wineapple

The dramatic story of the 1925 Scopes trial, which captivated the nation and exposed profound divisions in America that still resonate today—divisions over the meaning of freedom, religion, education, censorship, and civil liberties in a democracy.

509 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue
Sonia Purnell

From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of A Woman of No Importance, an electrifying re-examination of one of the 20th century’s greatest unsung power players.

513 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Ladykiller
Katherine Wood

When a young woman vanishes from her remote Greek island estate, her best friend races to find her, using clues found in the explosive manuscript she left behind.

356 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Last Date in El Zapotal
Mateo García Elizondo

A junkie looking for one last fix in a town full of ghosts.

157 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Last Dekrepitzer
Howard Langer

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

261 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Last Seance: Tales of the Supernatural
Agatha Christie

From the Queen of Suspense, an all-new collection of her spookiest and most sinister stories, including an Agatha Christie story never before published in the USA, "The Wife of Kenite!"

362 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

The Last Whaler
Cynthia Reeves

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

319 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Left Behind: A New Economics for Neglected Places
Paul Collier

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

352 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

The Life Impossible
Matt Haig

The remarkable next novel from Matt Haig, the author of #1 New York Times bestseller The Midnight Library, with more than nine million copies sold worldwide.

336 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Life's Too Short to Stuff a Mushroom: Really good food without the fuss
Prue Leith

Chef and TV legend Dame Prue Leith brings us the cookbook you’ve always wanted – 80 delicious recipes, with accompanying kitchen shortcuts and hacks, for a lifetime of easy cooking.

223 pp. Hardcover - Miscellaneous

The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali

From the nationally bestselling author of The Stationery Shop, a heartfelt, epic new novel of friendship, betrayal, and redemption set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran.

327 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Liquid Eye of a Moon
Uchenna Awoke

A Nigerian Catcher in the Rye, Uchenna Awoke’s masterful debut breaks the silence about a hidden and dangerous contemporary caste system.

342 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

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

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

302 pp. Hardcover - Science

The Living Statue: A Legend
Günter Grass

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

Nobel Laureate

57 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Lonely Planet: Australia
Sarah Reid, et. al

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

928 pp. Hardcover - Travel

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

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

237 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

Long Island Compromise
Taffy Brodesser-Akner

An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, and the wild legacy of trauma and inheritance, from the New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble

National Bestseller; New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

444 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Looking for Smoke
K. A. Cobell

In her powerful debut novel, Looking for Smoke, author K. A. Cobell weaves loss, betrayal, and complex characters into a thriller that will illuminate, surprise, and engage readers until the final word. A must-pick for readers who enjoy books by Angeline Boulley and Karen McManus!

402 pp. Hardcover - Youth

The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia
Juliet Grames

One unidentified skeleton. Three missing men. A village full of secrets. The best-selling author of The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna brings us a sparkling—by turns funny and moving—novel about a young American woman turned amateur detective in a small village in Southern Ital

416 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Lovely One
Ketanji Brown Jackson

In her inspiring, intimate memoir, the first Black woman to ever be appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States chronicles her extraordinary life story.

384 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Luxembourg
Tim Skelton

This new, thoroughly updated fifth edition of Bradt’s Luxembourg remains the only comprehensive, English-language guidebook to focus exclusively on this small but fascinating European country, where public transport is now entirely free.

247 pp. Hardcover - Travel

The Man in Black
Elly Griffiths

From the internationally bestselling author of the Ruth Galloway Mysteries, an eclectic, thrilling collection of short stories, featuring many characters that readers have come to know and love.

310 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl

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

165 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar

A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Electrifying, funny, and wholly original, Martyr! heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in contemporary fiction.

Finalist for the National Book Award; A New York Times Bestseller; Best Book of the Year (So Far) by the New York Times Book Review

331 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

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

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

313 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates

The renowned author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell—and the ones we don’t—shape our realities.

National Bestseller

235 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

The Mighty Red
Louise Erdrich

In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells a story of love, natural forces, spiritual yearnings, and the tragic impact of uncontrollable circumstances on ordinary people’s lives.

372 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Milk Without Honey
Hanna Harms

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

111 pp. Hardcover - Graphic Novel

Mina's Matchbox
Yoko Ogawa

From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, a hypnotic, introspective novel about an affluent Japanese family navigating buried secrets, and their young house guest who uncovers them.

280 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Mini Architects: 20 Projects Inspired by the Great Architects
Joséphine Seblon

Mini Architects harnesses the enduring fascination young children have with building to introduce them to architecture and structures from around the world. Illustrated by Robert Sae-Heng.

95 pp. Hardcover - Youth

Misrecognition
Madison Newbound

For fans of Rachel Cusk and Patricia Lockwood, an unflinchingly sharp and funny debut novel about the internet, post-postmodern adulthood, and queer identity.

262 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Mondrian: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute
Nicholas Fox Weber

The extraordinary and surprising life of Piet Mondrian, whose unprecedented geometric art revolutionized modern painting, architecture, graphic art, fashion design, and more—from acclaimed cultural historian Nicholas Fox Weber

639 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Monet The Restless Vision
Jackie Wullschlager

A magnificent new biography of the founder of Impressionism. In the course of a long and exceptionally creative life, Claude Monet revolutionized painting and made some of the most iconic images in western art.

464 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
Satoshi Yagisawa

In this charming and emotionally resonant follow up to the internationally bestselling Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, Satoshi Yagisawa paints a poignant and thoughtful portrait of life, love, and how much books and bookstores mean to the people who love them.

160 pp. Paperback - Fiction

The Most
Jessica Anthony

From “one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page” (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightly wound, consuming tale about a 1950s American housewife who goes for a swim in her apartment complex’s swimming pool one morning...and won’t come out.

Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction

136 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Mother
m.s. RedCherries

A stunning, multimorphic work of poetry and prose about Indigenous identity. Through poetic vignettes whose unconventional forms mirror the nonlinear, patchwork process of constructing a sense of self, m.s. RedCherries has crafted an indelible and utterly original work about the winding roads that lead us home.

144 pp. Hardcover - Poetry

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

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

579 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

Murder Book
Thomas Perry

An ex-cop takes on a widespread criminal organization targeting Midwestern towns in this "master class in the craft of suspense" (New York Times) from the author of The Old Man.

A Macavity Award Nominee

394 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

My Lesbian Novel
Renee Gladman

The latest in writer and visual artist Renee Gladman’s ever-expanding body of imaginative investigation is a sui generis novel of queerness and art-making, philosophy and sex.

147 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

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

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

136 pp. Hardcover - History

A Nation of Refugees: Russia's Jews in World War I
Polly Zavadivker

A history of how Russia's Jews formed the largest and most influential humanitarian campaign in their history, and of their leaders and institutions that endured long past the years of war and revolution.

327 pp. Hardcover - History

National Trust 2024 Handbook
National Trust

The handbook is an invaluable guide for all National Trust supporters, visitors, tourists and anyone thinking of a road trip around the most stunning places in Britain, Wales and Northern Ireland.

468 pp. Hardcover - Travel

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Yuval Noah Harari

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.

492 pp. Hardcover - History

Not What She Seems
Yasmin Angoe

She left home as the local pariah at twenty-two, but when a family tragedy brings her back, she must confront her tortured past—and a new danger in town that no one seems to understand but her.

390 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Observations of an Accidental Farmer―and a Mindful Reader
Harry Kavros

In forty short and charming chapters, a former “great books” teacher from New York City adapts to his new role on a small Southern farm by observing the natural world and drawing connections to his reading life.

235 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

Offbeat North America: 100 Amazing Places away from the Tourist Trail
Lonely Planet

Get inspired for your next adventure with this incredible collection of 100 unforgettable North American destinations that are far from the tourist trail.

From under-the-radar national parks to small towns with big personalities, these remarkable unsung spots have so much to offer. Travelers will also learn more about the heart of each place; its history; and how to support the local community during a visit.

327 pp. Hardcover - Travel

On a Move: Philadelphia's Notorious Bombing and a Native Son's Lifelong Battle for Justice
Mike Africa Jr.

The incredible story of MOVE, the revolutionary Black civil liberties group that Philadelphia police bombed in 1985, killing 11 civilians—by one of the few people born into the organization, raised during the bombing's tumultuous aftermath, and entrusted with repairing what was left of his family.

287 pp. Hardcover - History

On Freedom
Timothy Snyder

A brilliant exploration of freedom—what it is, how it’s been misunderstood, and why it’s our only chance for survival—by the acclaimed Yale historian and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Tyranny.

368 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

On the Calculation of Volume (Book 1)
Solvej Balle

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

Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Literature

160 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

One Bad Mother: A Mother's Search for Meaning in the Police Academy
Megan Williams

After her six-year-old daughter puts a hammer through a wall, Megan Williams decides to abandon a career as an academic and become a police officer.

209 pp. Hardcover - Biography

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

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

129 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Opening Doors: The Unlikely Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America
Hasia R. Diner

The extraordinary untold story of how Irish and Jewish immigrants worked together to secure legitimacy in America.

277 pp. Hardcover - History

Other Rivers: A Chinese Education
Peter Hessler

An intimate and revelatory account of two generations of students in China’s heartland, by an author who has observed the country’s tumultuous changes over the past quarter century

449 pp. Hardcover - History

Our Evenings
Alan Hollinghurst

From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, “an engrossing tale of one man’s personal odyssey as he grows up, framed in exquisite language.” (The New York Times Book Review)

487 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Out of My Heart
Sharon M. Draper

Book 2 of 3: The Out of My Mind Series

Melody faces her fears to follow her passion in this stunning sequel to the acclaimed bestselling middle grade novel Out of My Mind.

New York Times bestseller!

342 pp. Hardcover - Youth

Out of My Mind
Sharon M. Draper

Book 1 of 3: The Out of My Mind Series

From award-winning author Sharon Draper comes a story that will forever change how we all look at anyone with a disability, perfect for fans of RJ Palacio’s Wonder.

New York Times Bestseller

295 pp. Hardcover - Youth

The Overnight Guest
Heather Gudenkauf

A woman receives an unexpected visitor during a deadly snowstorm in this chilling thriller from New York Times bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf.

348 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Overstaying
Ariane Koch

Winner of the most prestigious German prize for debut fiction, Swiss playwright and visual artist Ariane Koch’s Overstaying is an absurdist tour de force.

169 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism
Sebastian Smee

Incisive and absorbing, Paris in Ruins captures the shifting passions and politics of the art world, revealing how the pressures of the siege and the chaos of the Commune had a profound impact on modern art, and how artistic genius can emerge from darkness and catastrophe.

416 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Peggy
Rebecca Godfrey

A dazzling, richly imagined novel about Peggy Guggenheim—a story of art, family, love, and becoming oneself—by the award-winning author of Under the Bridge, now a Hulu limited series starring Riley Keough and Lily Gladstone.

366 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Pennsylvania Genealogical Almanac
Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania

A new and improved guidebook to the many resources for family history in and about the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania... Containing historical maps of counties, lists of communities and townships, contact information for organizations and courthouses.

302 pp. Hardcover - History

Philadelphia: A Narrative History
Paul Kahan

A comprehensive history of Philadelphia from the region’s original Lenape inhabitants to the myriad of residents in the twenty-first century.

410 pp. Hardcover - History

The Philosophy of Translation
Damion Searls

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

248 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

Plans for Sentences
Renee Gladman

A tour de force of dizzying brilliance, Gladman's book blurs the distinctions between text and image, recognizing that drawing can be a form of writing, and vice versa: a generative act in which the two practices not only inform each other but propel each other into futures.

140 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

Playground
Richard Powers

A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory and Bewilderment.

Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize
Longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize

381 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Pleasure Grounds of Death: The Rural Cemetery in Nineteenth-Century America
Joy M. Giguere

Pleasure Grounds of Death considers the history of the rural cemetery in the United States throughout the duration of the nineteenth century as not only a critical cultural institution embedded in the formation of community and national identities, but also as major sites of contest over matters of burial reform, taste and respectability, and public behavior.

264 pp. Hardcover - History

Portrait of the Art Dealer as a Young Man: New York in the Sixties
Michael Findlay

This memoir from the influential art dealer and author offers an up close and personal perspective on New York’s vibrant art scene of the sixties and seventies.

280 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

The Position of Spoons
Deborah Levy

A feast of observations about everything from the particular beauty of lemons on a table, to the allure of Colette, to the streets of Paris, by the inimitable Deborah Levy.

161 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

Possible Happiness
David Ebenbach

Possible Happiness is a funny and tender coming-of-age story about developing the courage to face and understand yourself.

223 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Practice
Rosalind Brown

An astonishing first novel about a day in the life of a young student who experiences her thoughts, fantasies, and wishes as she writes about―or tries to write about―Shakespeare’s sonnets.

202 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Prose Architectures
Renee Gladman

A book of ink drawings that regards language as an exposed nervous system, uncovering the moment whereby architecture emerges out of prose, the sentence becomes a drawing, and the act of writing narrative can be examined from bodily movements.

121 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

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

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

630 pp. Hardcover - History

Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story
Kristine S. Ervin

For readers of My Dark Places and The Fact of a Body, a beautiful, brutal memoir documenting one woman’s search for identity alongside her family's decades-long quest to identify the two men who abducted—and murdered—her mother.

288 pp. Hardcover - Biography

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

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

208 pp. Hardcover - History

Red Regatta: A Public Art Project for Venice
Melissa McGill

An artist’s restaging of a Venetian nautical tradition calls attention to the threats of climate change.

206 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

A Refiner’s Fire
Donna Leon

The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries Book #33. Commissario Guido Brunetti confronts a present-day Venetian menace and the ghosts of a heroism that never was.

277 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Rejection
Tony Tulathimutte

From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens (“the first great millennial novel,” New York Magazine), an electrifying novel-in-stories that follows a cast of intricately linked characters as rejection throws their lives and relationships into chaos.

258 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Resort
Sara Ochs

For readers of Rachel Hawkins and We Were Never Here comes a searing vacation thriller set on a remote island in Thailand following two mysterious women, a charismatic group of expats, and the one murder poised to bring their paradise crashing down.

373 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

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

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

Instant New York Times Bestseller

352 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

Roman Year
André Aciman

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

354 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Rosario Candela & The New York Apartment: 1927-1937 The Architecture of the Age
David Netto, Paul Goldberger, Peter Pennoyer

Masterworks of the Jazz Age architect whose residential buildings are as significant in their impact on the character of New York as the skyscrapers of Wall Street.

303 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

The Rough Guide to Belgium & Luxembourg
Rough Guides

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360 pp. Paperback - Travel

The Rough Guide to Kenya
Richard Trillo, Rough Guides

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

600 pp. Hardcover - Travel

The Rough Guide to Slow Travel in Europe: 28 Inspirational No-Fly Journeys by Rail, Road and Sea
Rough Guides

With every itinerary and recommendation selected by expert Rough Guides’ authors and editors, this brand-new book arms travellers with top tips and visual inspiration that’ll enthuse them to get out there and explore the world in a more planet-friendly way.

288 pp. Paperback - Travel

The Rough Guide to Wales
Tim Burford, Rough Guides

This Wales guidebook is perfect for independent travellers planning a longer trip. It features all of the must-see sights and a wide range of off-the-beaten-track places. It also provides detailed practical information on preparing for a trip and what to do on the ground. And this Wales travel guidebook is printed on paper from responsible sources, and verified to meet the FSC’s strict environmental and social standards.

472 pp. Hardcover - Travel

Rough Guide: Rome
Rough Guides

This Rome guidebook covers: The Centro Storico, Campo de’ Fiori, The Ghetto and around, Piazza Venezia and the Capitoline Hill, Ancient Rome, The Tridente, Trevi and Quirinale, Monti, Termini and the Esquiline, The Caelian Hill and San Giovanni, The Aventine Hill and south, Trastevere and the Janiculum Hill, Villa Borghese and north, The Vatican.

192 pp. Hardcover - Travel

Rough Pages
Lev AC Rosen

Evander Mills Book #3

Set in atmospheric 1950s San Francisco, Rough Pages asks who is allowed to tell their own stories, and how far would you go to seek out the truth.

257 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Safe Enough
Lee Child

Twenty crime stories by the creator of Jack Reacher, never before collected.

237 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

The Safekeep
Yael van der Wouden

An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the same house in the Dutch countryside during the summer of 1961—a powerful exploration of the legacy of WWII and the darker parts of our collective past.

Booker Prize Shortlist

262 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Same Bright Stars
Ethan Joella

From the author of the Read with Jenna Bonus PickLittle Hope, an uplifting and emotionally resonant novel set in a Delaware beach town about a local restaurant owner at a turning point.

304 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank
Justene Hill Edwards

A leading historian exposes how the rise and tragic failure of the Freedman’s Bank has shaped economic inequality in America.

310 pp. Hardcover - History

The Scientist Turned Spy: André Michaux, Thomas Jefferson, and the Conspiracy of 1793
Patrick Spero

The incredible story of an explorer caught up in international intrigue at the dawn of US history.

334 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Second Hand Love
Yamada Murasaki

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

Translated by Ryan Holmberg 

222 pp. Hardcover - Graphic Novel

Seek: How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life and Change the World
Scott Shigeoka

Maximize your potential for connection, healing, and personal growth with this “timely bridge for our divided world.” (Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential)

243 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

The Sequel
Jean Hanff Korelitz

With her signature wit and sardonic humor, Jean Hanff Korelitz gives readers an antihero to root for while illuminating and satirizing the world of publishing in this deliciously fun and suspenseful read.

290 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

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

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

112 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

The Seventh Floor
David McCloskey

Six CIA officers. Dear friends and cherished enemies. For a quarter century they have stolen other people’s secrets. Now they must steal each other’s.

387 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Shanghai
Joseph Kanon

In this dazzling thriller, New York Times bestselling author Joseph Kanon gives us his richest setting yet: pre-World War II Shanghai, where glamour and squalor exist side by side and murder is just a cost of doing business. A love affair against all odds, a city dancing on the rim of a volcano—Shanghai is the story of a political haven that becomes a minefield of conflicting loyalties.

292 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Shiver
Allie Reynolds

In this propulsive locked-room thriller debut, a reunion weekend in the French Alps turns deadly when five friends discover that someone has deliberately stranded them at their remote mountaintop resort during a snowstorm.

390 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Shrink the City: The 15-Minute Urban Experiment and the Cities of the Future
Natalie Whittle

Cities define the lives of all those who call them home: where we go, how we get there, how we spend our time. But what if we rethink the ways we plan, live in, and move around our cities? What if we didn’t need a car to reach the grocery store? What if we could get back the time we would have spent commuting and put it to other uses?

In this fascinating, carefully researched and reported book, longtime Financial Times journalist Natalie Whittle investigates the 15-minute city idea―its pros, cons, and its potential to revolutionize modern living.

171 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
Ben Macintyre

A story of ordinary men and women under immense pressure, The Siege takes readers minute-by-thrilling-minute through an event that would echo across the next two decades and provide a direct historical link to the tragedy on 9/11. Drawing on exclusive interviews and a wealth of never-before-seen files, Macintyre brilliantly reconstructs a week in which every day minted a new hero and every second spelled the potential for doom.

365 pp. Hardcover - History

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

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

224 pp. Hardcover - Graphic Novel

Sleepless Night
Margriet de Moor

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

1,222 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Someone Like Us
Dinaw Mengestu

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

The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

 

251 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty
Hillary Rodham Clinton

What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinton? In Something Lost, Something Gained, Hillary offers her candid views on life and love, politics, liberty, democracy, the threats we face, and the future within our reach.

324 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Songs for the Brokenhearted
Ayelet Tsabari

A young Yemeni Israeli woman learns of her mother’s secret romance in a dramatic journey through lost family stories, revealing the unbreakable bond between a mother and a daughter—the debut novel of an award-winning literary voice.

339 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Sound of a Thousand Stars
Rachel Robbins

Oppenheimer meets Hidden Figures in this sweeping historical debut where two Jewish physicists form an inseverable bond amidst fear and uncertainty.

320 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

South Devon & Dartmoor: Local, Characterful Guides to Britain's Special Places
Hilary Bradt, Janice Booth

Discover the hidden secrets of this varied and beautiful region, from the 'English Riviera', where palm-trees abound and the sandy beaches of Torquay and Paignton attract numerous summer visitors, to the wild landscape of Dartmoor, England's highest landmass south of the Pennines.

351 pp. Hardcover - Travel

The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance That Won the War
Giles Milton

From internationally bestselling historian Giles Milton comes the remarkable true story of the motley group of Allied men and women who worked to manage Stalin’s mercurial, explosive approach to diplomacy during four turbulent years of World War II.

372 pp. Hardcover - History

Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right
Arlie Russell Hochschild

In her first book since the widely acclaimed Strangers in Their Own Land, National Book Award finalist and bestselling author Arlie Russell Hochschild now ventures to Appalachia, uncovering the "pride paradox" that has given the right's appeals such resonance.

400 pp. Hardcover - Politics

Suggested in the Stars
Yoko Tawada

On the heels of Scattered All Over the Earth, Yoko Tawada’s new and irresistible Suggested in the Stars carries on her band of friends’ astonishing and intrepid adventures.

229 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

The Summer Pact
Emily Giffin

In the wake of tragedy, a group of friends makes a pact that will cause them to reunite a decade later and embark upon a life-changing adventure together—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Meant to Be.

337 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Take Care of Them Like My Own: Faith, Fortitude, and a Surgeon's Fight for Health Justice
Ala Stanford

The founder of the Black Doctors Consortium highlights the devastating racial injustices in our health care system in this inspirational memoir and empowering call to action.

308 pp. Hardcover - Biography

Talking to Strangers
Fiona Barton

Detective Elise King’s investigation into a woman’s murder is getting derailed by a reporter who insists on doing her own investigation in this nail-biting mystery from the author of Local Gone Missing.

388 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world.

320 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

There Are Rivers in the Sky
Elif Shafak

From the Booker Prize finalist, author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about three characters living along two great rivers, all connected by a single drop of water.

498 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Titian: His Life and Works: An Illustrated Exploration of the Artist in Context, with a Gallery of his Paintings and Drawings
Susie Hodge

Susie Hodge explores Titian’s fascinating life through his family, friends, patrons and commissions.

256 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

To After That (TOAF)
Renee Gladman

A warm-spirited elegy to an abandoned work, brilliantly comic and wryly contemplative, by one of the great artist-investigators of our time.

75 pp. Hardcover - Miscellaneous

Tonight You're Dead
Viveca Sten

Sandhamn Murders Book #4

Soon to be divorced, attorney Nora Linde is finding her way as a single mother, and even falling in love again, when she’s asked by her childhood friend Detective Thomas Andreasson to help in a disturbing investigation.

402 pp. Hardcover - Mystery/Thriller

Treasure Island!!!
Sara Levine

A young slacker decides to live her life according to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure. "The 50 Best Contemporary Novels under 200 Pages" — Lithub 

172 pp. Hardcover - Fiction

Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation
Tom McGrath

The “entertaining and insightful” first history of the Yuppie phenomenon, chronicling the roots, rise, triumph and (seeming) fall of the young urban professionals who radically altered American life between 1980 and 1987 (New York Times bestselling author Ben Mezrich). 

325 pp. Hardcover - Nonfiction

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