Melissa Sevigny brings the 1938 expedition of two women explorers to vivid life in a narrative that’s at once a rip-roaring adventure story and a thoughtful account of the natural world.
The rigorous yet still enticing American Scary invites readers to peer into the horror show of American history through the lens of literature and film.
The beautifully printed, encyclopedic Great Women Sculptors brings together more than 300 artists who have been excluded from institutions and canons on the basis of sex.
Science writer Iris Gottlieb uncovers the crisis of our waste management systems in their timely, playfully illustrated Trash Talk.
Rachel Clarke’s powerful The Story of a Heart braids the true story of a pediatric organ transplant with a rigorous history of transplant science.
The Stalin Affair is an authoritative and lively account of the unlikely World War II alliance among the U.S., Great Britain and the Soviet Union.
The Slow Road North is Rosie Schaap’s magnificent love letter to Northern Ireland, the region that offered her solace and community while she was reeling from grief.
Librarian Amanda Jones recounts her battle to overcome book-banning extremists in her empowering memoir, That Librarian.
Audre Lorde gets her flowers in Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ Survival Is a Promise, a masterful, poetic biography of the literar and feminist icon.
In Shame on You, Melissa Petro invites us to flush shame into the light and challenge its control over our lives.
Simon Read brings the gory details of Victorian-era crimes to life in his thrilling history of Scotland Yard.
Mushroom Gastronomy’s part cookbook, part encyclopedia approach to the ever-fascinating fungus is as educational as it is mouthwatering.
In Magically Black and Other Essays, Jerald Walker unfurls poignant cultural critiques about parenting, Blackness and American life with laugh-out-loud humor.
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