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We Refuse

A Forceful History of Black Resistance

by Kellie Carter Jackson

Hardcover: Jun 2024 | Paperback: Nov 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A radical reframing of the past and present of Black resistance—both nonviolent and violent—to white supremacy.

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?

So Many Stars

An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color

by Caro De Robertis

Hardcover: May 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Award-winning novelist Caro De Robertis offers a first-of-its-kind, deeply personal, and moving oral history of a generation of queer and trans elders of color, from leading activists to artists to ordinary citizens to tell their stories of ...

The Afterlife of Malcolm X

An Outcast Turned Icon's Enduring Impact on America

by Mark Whitaker

Hardcover: May 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Published to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of his birth, the first major study of Malcolm X's influence in the sixty years since his assassination, exploring his enduring impact on culture, politics, and civil rights.

The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue

A Story of Climate and Hope on One American Street

by Mike Tidwell

Hardcover: Mar 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A riveting and elegant story of climate change on one city street, full of surprises and true stories of human struggle and dying local trees – all against the national backdrop of 2023's record heat domes and raging wildfires and, ...

Becoming Madam Secretary

by Stephanie Dray

Hardcover: Mar 2024 | Paperback: Mar 2025

Critics' Consensus:

New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray returns with a captivating and dramatic new novel about an American heroine Frances Perkins.

Banned Together

Our Fight for Readers' Rights

by Ashley Hope Pérez

Hardcover: Mar 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A dazzling YA anthology that spotlights the transformative power of books while equipping teens to fight for the freedom to read, featuring the voices of 15 diverse, award-winning authors and illustrators.

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

by Omar El Akkad

Hardcover: Feb 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values.

Alligator Tears

A Memoir in Essays

by Edgar Gomez

Hardcover: Feb 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A darkly comic memoir-in-essays about the scam of the American Dream and doing whatever it takes to survive in the Sunshine State—from the award-winning author of High-Risk Homosexual.

Absolution

A Novel

by Alice McDermott

Hardcover: Oct 2023 | Paperback: Oct 2024

Critics' Consensus:

A riveting account of women's lives on the margins of the Vietnam War, from the renowned winner of the National Book Award.

Those Pink Mountain Nights

by Jen Ferguson

Hardcover: Sep 2023 | Paperback: Oct 2024

Critics' Consensus:

In her remarkable second novel following her Governor General's Award-winning debut, The Summer of Bitter and Sweet, Jen Ferguson writes about the hurt of a life stuck in past tense, the hum of connections that cannot be severed, and one week in a ...

The Message

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Hardcover: Oct 2024

Critics' Consensus:

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell—and the ones we don't—shape our realities.

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