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In this inspiring memoir, one of the first Black woman astronauts recounts her journey from the South Side of Chicago to the International Space Station—and the trials, setbacks, and triumphs that ultimately led her to opportunities out of this world. Joan Higginbotham never set out to be the...

A spellbinding memoir of a mother’s fight to save her daughter from a mysterious brain illness. It began with a seizure on a Brooklyn sidewalk just as fourteen-year-old Niko was preparing to enter one of the country’s most competitive high schools. Her immune system had gone haywire and was...

A journalistic account of the origins and rise of meme coins...

From the world’s leading memory researcher, a provocative answer to an existential question: How far can we trust our own memories? Most of us think memories are like a tidy archive of high-definition video footage, a faithful recording of our most meaningful experiences. Our memories define...

23 May, 2025. I've just stepped out onto the balcony, and there are kites, which always come out when there's a bit of wind. They're basically made out of bin bags, but it's a really lovely sight, especially on a day when I've been operating on loads of small children, just to know that there...

Power rarely sits with one person alone. Behind every iconic CEO, cultural figure or global influencer is a small, trusted circle shaping decisions, managing crises and steering influence behind the scenes. This book lifts the curtain on those figures: the fixers, advisors and powerbrokers who...

From one of the world’s leading memory researchers, a provocative exploration of an existential question: Can we trust our own memories? Most of us think memories are like a tidy archive of high-definition video footage, a faithful recording of our most meaningful experiences. Our memories, we...

One of our most brilliant, acclaimed novelists turns to nonfiction with a mind-expanding, slyly humorous personal exploration of the scientific imagination. In Lives of the Scientists: or, How to Predict the End of the World, Rivka Galchen offers a profound and playful exploration of the lives...

An intimate history of plastics, written by a plastic-maker’s daughter turned environmental sociologist who, for the past decade, has searched for the origin story of plastic and how it is inextricably bound to her own. In one generation, industry has created billions of tons of plastic. It's...

Every object has a story to tell…Fine art. Priceless jewels. Museum-worthy masterpieces. In 1970s New York, the auction world was a velvet-rope affair—until Arlan Ettinger crashed the party.With his wife, Barbara, Arlan launched Guernsey's, a scrappy, anything-goes auction house that turned...

From esteemed physician and acclaimed author Danielle Ofri, a clear-eyed and compassionate exploration of death that helps us face the end of life with greater understanding, less fear, and a deeper connection to what matters most “Knowing that death is the only certainty of life does not...

24 witty essays channelling the ancient wisdom of Socrates for the modern age. It was Socrates who asked the question we’re still trying to answer today: what does it mean to live a good and meaningful life? Tom Hodgkinson, the noted bon viveur and the bestselling author of How to Be Idle...

The King of Oil is the astonishing, no-holds-barred true story of Marc Rich—the fugitive billionaire trader who invented the modern spot oil market, transformed the world economy, and became one of the most controversial businessmen in history. For the first time, billionaire oil trader Marc...

An irreverently funny and deeply moving story of growing up on the Rez and figuring out what it means to fight for your people, in the courtroom as a lawyer, and throughout life as a good relative When Lakota law professor Elaine Yellow Horse was a kid, her mother told her that her...

From the acclaimed author of What She Ate, the story of five couples whose dreams, experiments, and triumphs fueled a revolution at the kitchen table. In Big Appetites, the journalist and culinary historian Laura Shapiro introduces readers to some of the cooks and activists who turned their...

The first book from million-copy bestselling author and forensic pathologist Dr Philippe Boxho, in which he shares gripping stories and secrets from his career examining the dead. ‘Hello, Doctor? We have a problem.’ The dead can speak - if you know how to listen. And renowned Belgian...

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s A Twentieth-Century Life is more than a memoir—it’s an ode to America and a solemn reminder of the promises and values on which this country’s greatness resides, spanning from Breyer’s coming of age in an era of post-war idealism, to his...

An illuminating new life of the peerless thinker, artist and author of Ways of Seeing Tom Overton got to know John Berger around 2010, after he gave his archive to the British Library: a kind of homecoming to the city of his birth, after a life lived mostly in self-imposed exile in Switzerland...

Good Purpose is more than a memoir. It's a battle-tested argument that purpose-driven companies don't just do good—they outperform. Cherkasky's insider accounts of Gotti, Eliot Spitzer, the FBI, Wall Street, and corporate America offer access no journalist can replicate.

From bestselling biographer Walter Isaacson, this is the inspiring tale of Marie Curie, the passionate scientist who pushed through all obstacles to set the stage for the modern world. The only person in history to win Nobel prizes in two different sciences, Marie Curie ushered in the 20th...