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  • After the Ocean
    Lauren E. Rico
    Published 12/24/24

    How do you find your way back when you've left yourself behind?

    A painful unsolved mystery resurfaces after decades of confusion, sending one woman and her daughters on a...
  • Knife Skills for Beginners
    Orlando Murrin
    Published 12/24/24

    The Maid meets Knives Out with a dash of Top Chef in the debut locked room culinary mystery set in a London cooking school by MasterChef semi-finalist and cookbook writer ...
  • Heavenly Tyrant
    Xiran Jay Zhao
    Published 12/24/24

    Zetian must balance dangerous politics with a new quest for vengeance in the sequel to the #1 New York Times bestseller Iron Widow.

    Pacific Rim meets The Handmaid's Tale ...

Publishing Soon

  • What the Light Touches
    Xavier Bosch
    Published 1/1/25

    Acclaimed author Xavier Bosch weaves an emotional tale of love and intrigue in this novel about a woman on the cusp of middle age, her beloved grandma, and a strange ...
  • Give Her Credit
    Grace L. Williams
    Published 1/1/25

    The galvanizing true story of a group of remarkable women in the 1970s male-run world of business, banking, and finance. They didn't play by the rules. They changed them and ...
  • 99% Perspiration
    Adam Chandler
    Published 1/7/25

    An enlightening and entertaining interrogation of the myth of American self-reliance and the idea of hard work as destiny.

First Impressions: Readers Recommend

  • Going Home
    Tom Lamont
    Published 1/14/25

    Going Home is a sparkling, funny, bighearted story of family and what happens when three men—all of whom are completely ill-suited for fatherhood—take charge of a ...
  • The Secret History of the Rape Kit
    Pagan Kennedy
    Published 1/14/25

    Marty Goddard dreamed up a new crime-solving tool—a kit that could help rape survivors fight for justice. This thrilling investigation tells the story of the troubled, ...
  • Beast of the North Woods
    Annelise Ryan
    Published 1/28/25

    When a local fisherman is mauled to death, it seems like the only possible cause is a mythical creature in the latest puzzling entry in this USA Today bestselling series.

Latest "Beyond the Book" Articles

  • Midwifery in Colonial America
    Beyond the book article for The Frozen River
    Martha Ballard, the heroine of Ariel Lawhon's The Frozen River and a real-life 18th-century midwife, left behind a diary that remains one of history's best sources on midwifery in late colonial America. In addition to this work of historical fiction, Ballard is the subject of historical monographs ...
  • How to Read Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar
    Beyond the book article for But the Girl
    In Jessica Zhan Mei Yu's novel But the Girl, the main character and first-person narrator is writing her PhD thesis on the work of Sylvia Plath. Plath is an iconic writer whose poetry is considered canonical by many but who is also sometimes dismissed as being a mere preoccupation for disillusioned ...
  • Leos Janacek's Piano Works
    Beyond the book article for Our Evenings
    Leoš Janáček (pronounced lay-osh YAH-NAAH-check) is widely considered the greatest Czech composer of the early twentieth century. Perhaps best known for his opera The Cunning Little Vixen, Janáček created not only several operas, but also symphonic works, chamber music...

New in Hardcover

  • Rental House
    Weike Wang
    Published 12/3/24

    From the award-winning author of Chemistry, a sharp-witted, insightful novel about a marriage as seen through the lens of two family vacations.
  • Roman Year
    Andre Aciman
    Published 10/22/24

    The author of Call Me by Your Name returns with a deeply romantic memoir of his time in Rome while on the cusp of adulthood.
  • Patriot
    Alexei Navalny
    Published 10/22/24

    The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs.

New in Paperback

  • Flee North
    Scott Shane
    Published 12/4/24

    A riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bought his own freedom, led hundreds out of slavery, and named the ...
  • The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac
    Louise Kennedy
    Published 12/3/24

    Brilliant, dark stories of women's lives by "a very major talent" (Joseph O'Connor, Irish Times)
  • Hello Beautiful
    Ann Napolitano
    Published 11/19/24

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Dear Edward comes a poignant and engrossing family story that asks: Can love make a broken person whole?

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