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A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself

by Ho Peter Davies

Published: 2021-01-05T00:0

Hardcover: 240 pages

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“There are some stories that require as much courage to write as they do art. Peter Ho Davies’s achingly honest, searingly comic portrait of fatherhood is just such a story...The world needs more stories like this one, more of this kind of courage, more of this kind of love.” —Sigr...

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Floating in a Most Peculiar Way: A Memoir

by Louis Chude-Sokei

Published: 2021-02-02T00:0

Hardcover: 240 pages

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The astonishing journey of a bright, utterly displaced boy, from the short-lived African nation of Biafra, to Jamaica, to the harshest streets of Los Angeles—a searing memoir that adds fascinating depth to the coming-to-America story The first time Chude-Sokei realizes that he is “f...

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Land of Big Numbers: Stories

by Te-Ping Chen

Published: 2021-02-02T00:0

Paperback: 256 pages

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“Gripping and illuminating . . . At the heart of Te-Ping Chen’s remarkable debut lies a question all too relevant in 21st Century America: What is freedom?” —Jennifer Egan A debut collection from an extraordinary new talent that vividly gives voice to the men and women of modern...

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Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal

by Mark Bittman

Published: 2021-02-02T00:0

Hardcover: 384 pages

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From hunting and gathering to GMOs and ultraprocessed foods, this expansive tour of human history rewrites the story of our species—and points the way to a better future. The history of Homo sapiens is usually told as a story of technology or economics. But there is a more fundamental...

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Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

by Julia Cooke

Published: 2021-03-02T00:0

Hardcover: 288 pages

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Glamour, danger, liberation: in a Mad Men–era of commercial flight, Pan Am World Airways attracted the kind of young woman who wanted out, and wanted up Required to have a college education, speak two languages, and possess the political savvy of a Foreign Service officer, a jet-age s...

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The Arsonists' City

by Hala Alyan

Published: 2021-03-09T00:0

Hardcover: 464 pages

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“The Arsonists’ City delivers all the pleasures of a good old-fashioned saga, but in Alyan’s hands, one family’s tale becomes the story of a nation—Lebanon and Syria, yes, but also the United States. It’s the kind of book we are lucky to have.”—Rumaan Alam A rich family ...

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The Postscript Murders

by Elly Griffiths

Published: 2021-03-02T00:0

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Murder leaps off the page when crime novelists begin to turn up dead in this intricate new novel by internationally best-selling author Elly Griffiths, a literary mystery perfect for fans of Anthony Horowitz and Agatha Christie. The death of a ninety-year-old woman with a heart conditio...

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The Conductors (A Murder & Magic Novel)

by Nicole Glover

Published: 2021-03-02T00:0

Paperback: 432 pages

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A compelling debut by a new voice in fantasy fiction, The Conductors features the magic and mystery of Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files series written with the sensibility and historical setting of Octavia Butler’s Kindred. Meet Hetty Rhodes, a magic-user and former conductor on the Undergr...

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Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir

by Brian Broome

Published: 2021-05-18T00:0

Hardcover: 256 pages

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A poetic and raw coming-of-age memoir in essays about blackness, masculinity, and addiction Punch Me Up to the Gods introduces a powerful new talent in Brian Broome, whose early years growing up in Ohio as a dark-skinned Black boy harboring crushes on other boys propel forward this gorg...

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Old Lovegood Girls

by Gail Godwin

Published: 2020-05-05T00:0

Hardcover: 352 pages

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