• Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous...
  • Author: Stephen Greenblatt
  • Publisher: ‏ ‎ W. W. Norton...
  • In repressive Elizabethan England, artists are frightened into dull conventionality; foreigners are suspect; popular entertainment largely consists of coarse spectacles, animal fights, and hangings. Into this crude world of government censorship and religious authoritarianism comes an ambitious cobbler’s son from Canterbury...
  • All the Way to the River: Love,...
  • Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Publisher: Riverhead Books
  • In her first nonfiction book in a decade, the #1 bestselling writer who taught millions of readers to live authentically (Eat Pray Love) and creatively (Big Magic) shows how to break free.In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert met Rayya. They became friends, then best friends, then inseparable. When tragedy entered their lives, the truth...
  • Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America
  • Author: Robert B. Reich
  • Publisher: Knopf
  • 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 doA thought-provoking,...
  • Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education...
  • Author: Daniel Pollack-Pelzner
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • An intimate and captivating exploration of Lin-Manuel Miranda's artistic journey, revealing how the creator of the Broadway musicals Hamilton and In the Heights found his unique voice through bold collaborations, redefining the world of musical theater.How did Lin-Manuel Miranda, the sweet, sensitive son of Puerto Rican...
  • Awake: A Memoir
  • Author: Jen Hatmaker
  • Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon...
  • "I can't imagine any woman reading this without feeling seen, inspired, and totally empowered." - Mel Robbins "A MASTERPIECE, you guys. This memoir by the great Jen Hatmaker *cannot* be missed. I was riveted as if to a thriller and touched/moved/inspired in ways I can't quite articulate yet. Just...
  • All the Way to the River
  • Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Publisher: Riverhead Books

  • AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK "A delicious mashup of narrative that's by turns harrowing and healing." -People"Entertaining, insightful, wrenching ... punch-to-the-gut powerful." -The Washington Post"A blockbuster: brutally honest, lurid, transcendent, and compelling ... Gilbert is undoubtedly...

  • Blood Harmony: The Everly Brothers...
  • Author: Barry Mazor
  • Publisher: Da Capo
  • The definitive biography of the Everly Brothers, one of the greatest and most influential acts in popular music history, based on dozens of exclusive and archival interviews, as well as long-lost global reporting In between the Elvis years and the rise of the Beatles, there was no bigger act than The Everly Brothers....
  • Homework: A Memoir
  • Author: Geoff Dyer
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Named a most anticipated book of 2025 by Vulture | The Guardian | Financial Times | The Observer | The Times (London) | Literary Hub"Homework is wonderful Geoff-Dyer writing, which we've all learned to crave; something to delight and to move us and to edify us on every page. I find him an irresistible writer."...
  • King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution:...
  • Author: Scott Anderson
  • Publisher: ‎ Doubleday
  • On New Year’s Eve, 1977, on a state visit to Iran, President Jimmy Carter toasted Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, King of Kings, Light of the Aryans, Shadow of God on Earth, praising Iran as “an island of stability “ due to “your leadership and the respect and admiration and love which your people give to you.” Iran...
  • Black Genius: Essays on an American...
  • Author: Tre Johnson
  • Publisher: Dutton
  • A powerful read redefining the meaning of genius while illuminating the ways in which Black Americans have found various ways to thrive despite insurmountable obstacles.Black genius sits at the heart of the American story. In his probing essay collection, Black Genius, cultural critic Tre Johnson examines how Black American...
  • Matriarch: A Memoir
  • Author: Tina Knowles
  • Publisher: One World
  • A revealing personal life story like no other - enlightening, entertaining, surprising, empowering - and a testament to the world-making power of Black motherhood. "You are Celestine," she said. She squatted to push the hair off my face and pull leaves off my pajama legs. "Like my sister and my grandmother."...
  • Notes to John
  • Author: Joan Didion
  • Publisher: Knopf
  • An extraordinary work from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue NightsIn November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had "a rough few years." She described the sessions in a journal she created for her husband, John Gregory Dunne.For several...
  • A Light in the Northern Sea: Denmark's...
  • Author: Tim Brady
  • Publisher: Citadel Press
  • From the bestselling author of Three Ordinary Girls, the gripping, remarkably little-known true story of how the people of Denmark banded together during WWII to rescue nearly all of their Jewish citizens from Nazi persecution by ferrying them just a few at a time to sanctuary in Sweden. August 25, 1943. A lone bicyclist...
  • So Gay for You: Friendship, Found...
  • Author: Kate Moennig
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press
  • An intimate, hilarious memoir of art, friendship, queerness, and found family by Kate Moennig and Leisha Hailey, stars of The L Word -- including never-before-shared stories and photos from behind the scenes of the show and their personal lives. "Are you comfortable with nudity?" my manager asked.In the early...
  • Bob Dylan: Jewish Roots, American...
  • Author: Harry Freedman
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum
  • From the day that Bobby Zimmerman first turned on the radio in his parents' home in Hibbing, he'd had a pretty good idea that big things were happening, that old values were changing, that something new was on the way. Bob Dylan arrived in New York one winter morning in 1961. His music and spirit would go on to capture...
  • Captain Kidd: A True Story of Treasure...
  • Author: Samuel Marquis
  • Publisher: Diversion Books
  • The breakneck adventure of war, romance, politics, and betrayal, where noble gentleman privateer William Kidd becomes a scapegoat, and Crown and crew sink to unfathomable depths to brand him pirate enemy #1.Captain William Kidd stands as one of the most notorious "pirate" outlaws ever, but his notorious legend...