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Vivid . . . Garza's accomplished debut enriches the public imagination of this corner of America, and the communities within." -Melissa Chadburn, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)A blazing and kaleidoscopic debut about a tight-knit community of Mexican and Filipino American families on the Texas coast from a voice you won't soon forget.Welcome to Galveston, Texas. Population 50, 241.A popular tourist destination and major shippi...

Winners make history." -Kevin McCarthyMake no mistake: modern information warfare is here and January 6th was just the first battle. That day, an unhinged mindset led to an attack on the Capitol, the most serious assault on American democracy since the end of the Civil War. And that thinking portends even darker days ahead.In The Breach, a former House Republican and the first member of Congress to sound the alarm about QAnon, Denver Riggleman...

In country music, the men might dominate the radio waves. But it's women-like Maren Morris, Mickey Guyton, and Kacey Musgraves-who are making history. This is the full and unbridled story of the past twenty years of country music seen through the lens of these trailblazers' careers-their paths to stardom and their battles against a deeply embedded boys' club, as well as their efforts to transform the genre into a more inclusive place-as told b...

Stella North (Virgo) has waited her whole life for a coveted birthday party invite that will guarantee a friend-filled summer in Washington. Forget summer, this opportunity could change her universe. Maybe in this universe, she'll have less anxiety about big things, like the growing absence of her addict mom, and small things, like what everyone else is thinking or what she's wearing or or or... breathe.But those perfect summer plans implode w...

Traveling through lush courtyards, perilous deserts, and opulent palaces brimming with secrets and treachery, Shaherazade must entertain her dangerous new husband, the Malik, and navigate court intrigue as her homeland teeters on brink of destruction in this sprawling new take on the classic One Thousand and One Nights.In twelfth century, Persia, clever and dreamy Shaherazade stumbles on the Malik's beloved wife entwined with a lover in a sun-...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER . SHORTLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION'S FIRST NOVEL PRIZE . "An intoxicating exploration of male-dominated workplaces . . . NSFW is gripping, with a lot to unpack, making it excellent book-club fodder."-TIMEBlisteringly sharp and hypersmart-meet Isabel Kaplan's searing debut novel about a young woman trying to succeed in Hollywood without selling her soul.From the outside, the unnamed protagonist in NSFW appears to be th...

A passionate, probing collection gathering nearly thirty years of groundbreaking reflection on culture and society alongside four new essays, by one of our most respected essayists and critics-former Yale English professor and National Book Critics Circle Award-winner William Deresiewicz.What is the internet doing to us? What is college for? What are the myths and metaphors we live by? These are the questions that William Deresiewicz has been ...

Bill McKibben-award-winning author, activist, educator-is fiercely curious. "I'm curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American faith, and American prosperity."Like so many of us, McKibben grew up believing-knowing-that the United States was the greatest country on earth. As a teenager, he cheerfully led American Revolution tours in Lexington, Massachusetts. He sang "Kumbaya" at church. And with the remarkable rise...

Liz Scheier's darkly funny and touching memoir-with shades of Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle and Mira Bartók's The Memory Palace-of growing up in '90s Manhattan with a brilliant, mendacious single motherScheier's mother Judith was a news junkie, a hilarious storyteller, a fast-talking charmer you couldn't look away from, a single mother whose devotion crossed the line into obsession, and-when in the grips of the mental illness that plagued...

Absorbing, compelling, and beautifully written. Its ending brought me close to tears." -Beth O'Leary, bestselling author of The FlatshareThe Big Sick meets Nick Hornby in Kasim Ali's debut novel about a young man who has hidden a romance from his parents, unable to choose between familial obligation and the future he truly wants.If love really is a choice, how do you decide where your loyalties lie? It's the countdown to the New Year, and Nur ...

A breakdown of the economic and social injustices facing Black people and other marginalized citizens, inspired by political activist Kimberly Jones's viral video "How Can We Win"So if I played four hundred rounds of Monopoly with you and I had to play and give you every dime that I made, and then for fifty years, every time that I played, if you didn't like what I did, you got to burn it like they did in Tulsa and like they did in Rosewood, h...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA gorgeous, unflinching love letter to Flint, Michigan, and the resilience of its people, Kelsey Ronan's Chevy in the Hole follows multiple generations of two families making their homes there, with a stunning contemporary love story at its center. In the opening pages of Chevy in the Hole, August "Gus" Molloy has just overdosed in a bathroom stall of the Detroit farm-to-table restaurant where he wor...

As David Robson makes plain in this compelling book, the way we think about the world can profoundly shape how we navigate it. Based in science and packed with smart advice, The Expectation Effect will expand your mind-and maybe even extend your life."-Daniel Pink, New York Times bestselling author of When, Drive, and To Sell Is HumanA journey through the cutting-edge science of how our mindset shapes every facet of our lives, revealing how yo...

In climbing the Seven Summits, Silvia Vasquez-Lavado did nothing less than take back her own life-one brave step at a time. She will inspire untold numbers of souls with this story, for her victory is a win on behalf of all of us."-Elizabeth GilbertEndless ice. Thin air. The threat of dropping into nothingness thousands of feet below. This is the climb Silvia Vasquez-Lavado braves in her page-turning, pulse-raising memoir following her journey...

Imogen Crimp's enjoyable debut novel... is an all-too-real reminder of what it is to be a woman in your 20s..." -The New York Times"Tender, devastating, witty. And deeply true. Sweetbitter meets Normal People."-Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and BlissA bitingly honest and darkly funny debut from a fresh, captivating voice, A Very Nice Girl reminds us that we are always just one moment away from setting all we hold dear on fire.By day, Anna is a p...

The moving story of the life of the woman behind A Raisin in the Sun, the most widely anthologized, read, and performed play of the American stage, by the New York Times bestselling author of Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper LeeWritten when she was just twenty-eight, Lorraine Hansberry's landmark A Raisin in the Sun is listed by the National Theatre as one of the hundred most significant works of the twentieth century. Hansberry was the first...

A New York Times bestsellerIn this triumphant memoir, Carl Bernstein, the Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of All the President's Men and pioneer of investigative journalism, recalls his beginnings as an audacious teenage newspaper reporter in the nation's capital-a winning tale of scrapes, gumshoeing, and American bedlam.In 1960, Bernstein was just a sixteen-year-old at considerable risk of failing to graduate high school. Inquisitive, self-ta...

Bringing to mind Gillian Flynn and Tana French but completely unique, Marie Rutkoski's Real Easy is a compulsive, tenacious, and unexpectedly hopeful thriller."[R]iveting...An adrenaline ride filled with grit and compassion." -People, Book of the WeekIt's 1999 and Samantha has danced for years at the Lovely Lady strip club. She's not used to mixing work and friendship-after all, between her jealous boyfriend and his young daughter, she has eno...

A Best Book of 2022 - USA TODAY"Astute, compassionate and lethally funny. Maloney is an exceptionally alert writer on whom nothing is lost, who sees everything with excruciating clarity." -Sarah Manguso, The New York Times The searing intimacy of Girl, Interrupted combines with the uncomfortable truths of The Empathy Exams in a collection of essays chronicling one woman's experiences as both patient and caregiver, giving a unique perspective f...

Age of Cage might be the closest we will get to understanding the singular beauty of each of Nic Cage's always electric performances. You are holding the Rosetta Stone for Cage. Enjoy it."-Paul Scheer, actor, writer and host of the How Did This Get Made? and Unspooled podcastsIcon. Celebrity. Artist. Madman. Genius. Nicolas Cage is many things, but love him, or laugh at him, there's no denying two things: you've seen one of his many films, and...