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My Good Bright Wolf

A Memoir

by Sarah Moss

Hardcover: Oct 2024 | Paperback: Oct 2025

Critics' Consensus:

An unflinching memoir about childhood, food, books, and our ability to see, become, and protect ourselves.

Rethinking Rescue

Dog Lady and the Story of America's Forgotten People and Pets

by Carol Mithers

Hardcover: Aug 2024 | Paperback: Aug 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Rethinking Rescue boldly confronts two of the biggest challenges of our time — poverty and homelessness — in asking the question: Who deserves the love of a pet?

The Dry Season

A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex

by Melissa Febos

Hardcover: Jun 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From the national bestselling author of Girlhood, an examination of the solitude, freedoms, and feminist heroes Melissa Febos discovered during a year of celibacy. A wise and transformative look at relationships and self-knowledge.

The Wide Wide Sea

Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

by Hampton Sides

Hardcover: Apr 2024 | Paperback: May 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this ...

Move Like Water

My Story of the Sea

by Hannah Stowe

Hardcover: Sep 2023 | Paperback: May 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A book to sweep you away from the shore, into a wild world of water, whale, storm, and starlight— to experience what it's like to sail for weeks at a time with life set to a new rhythm.

The True Happiness Company

A Memoir

by Veena Dinavahi

Hardcover: May 2025

Critics' Consensus:

In this darkly humorous and wrenchingly sincere memoir, a young Indian American woman's dreams of being a well-adjusted college student get wildly derailed when her struggles with mental health land her in the office of a charismatic alternative ...

Another Word for Love

A Memoir

by Carvell Wallace

Hardcover: May 2024 | Paperback: May 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for healing.

This Is Your Mother

A Memoir

by Erika J. Simpson

Hardcover: May 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From "a writer who's absolutely going places" (Roxane Gay), a remarkable, inventive debut memoir about a mother-daughter relationship across cycles of poverty, separation, and illness, exploring how we forge identity in the face of imminent loss.

It. Goes. So. Fast.

The Year of No Do-Overs

by Mary Louise Kelly

Hardcover: Apr 2023 | Paperback: Apr 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Operating Instructions meets Glennon Doyle in this new book by famed NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly that is destined to become a classic—about the year before her son goes to college—and the joys, losses and surprises that happen along ...

Waiting for the Monsoon

by Rod Nordland

Hardcover: Mar 2024 | Paperback: Mar 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A legendary New York Times war correspondent delivers his unforgettable final dispatch: a deeply moving meditation on life inspired by his sudden battle with terminal brain cancer.

Careless People

A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

by Sarah Wynn-Williams

Hardcover: Mar 2025

Critics' Consensus:

An explosive memoir charting one woman's career at the heart of one of the most influential companies on the planet, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to Facebook, the decisions that have shaped world events in recent decades, and the people...

Bitter Crop

The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year

by Paul Alexander

Hardcover: Feb 2024 | Paperback: Mar 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A revelatory look at the tumultuous life of a jazz legend and American cultural icon

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