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YOUR CAPTION HAS BEEN SELECTEDIt is fair to say that the New Yorker caption contest is a genuine cultural phenomenon, attracting thousands of entries every week. Wood, who...
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12 TRIPS IN 12 MONTHSRuiz is the creator of the Jen on a Jet Plane blog and author of The Solo Female Travel Book and The Affordable Flight Guide . Her...
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BOYMOMWhippman, a British journalist, the author of America the Anxious , and the mother of “three adorable, irrepressible, anarchic, creative,...
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WAVE MAKERSStudents in a classroom gather to listen to listen to guest speaker Dr. Sylvia Earle, an esteemed oceanographer, scientist, and explorer. The...
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BLOODY TUESDAYSelma, Montgomery, Birmingham: Alabama’s cities have long been commemorated as flashpoints in the Black struggle for equality. Tuscaloosa,...
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LITTLE SHIPSThis family saga opens with a short chapter titled “Bloom” describing how love blossoms between a young couple, feckless Nick Becker and...
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THE LAST BROKEN GIRLErin Moore-Jackson was kidnapped and tortured 20 years ago—now, the man who did it is up for parole. At the time, Erin told the police that the...
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WILDWOODWildwood, New Jersey no longer exists…at least, not as it once it did. Destroyed by a hurricane in 2029, it was rebuilt, only to be knocked down...
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NABUKKOEighteen-year-old Eff Sharp has no idea how she wound up stranded on an unknown world. She has only “snippets” of memories of Earth and her...
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MY AILING CHAMPIONThe book opens in 1994in a restaurant in the Cook Islands, where Koubourlis listened to an anticolonial anarchist at a nearby table...
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THE FREEZIESKai, Leo, and Suleikha (who goes by “Sully”) live in an English village. Some locals, who wish to keep away “squatters and travellers,” quickly...
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BIG RIVERPhotographer and biologist Moskowitz and nature writer Pearkes survey, in words and images, the enormous Columbia River Basin, stretching from...
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HOW TO GET A JOB AND KEEP A JOBThe author draws on his 40 years of experience in legal and government work, including a stint in the U.S. Department of Commerce during the...
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HOT DOG MONEYMarty Blazer, writes crime journalist Lawson, author of War Dogs , started out as a financial adviser to college athletes back when they were...
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RADIO HEAD GALIn the 1960s, the author was born with deafness, but she wasn’t formally diagnosed until she was in grade school, largely due to her mother’s...
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FROM SWEETGRASS BRIDGEMerry Bell, a trans woman, recently returned to her hometown of Livingsky, “broke, alone, [and] about to turn thirty.” She hopes to earn enough...
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EVERYTHING WE NEVER SAIDShe’s trying to get by without best friend Hayley Miller, who died in a car accident last spring. Ella is besieged by not only grief but also...
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WINDSONGSBeginning with scene-setters about weather and our atmosphere and ending with a sober look at climate change, the veteran poet-illustrator...
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THE PLAYBOOKAward-winning Shakespeare scholar Shapiro, author of Shakespeare in a Divided America , creates a vibrant history both of the astonishingly...
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LET US MARCH ON!Writer and Civil Rights activist James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) was a man of multiple talents, not the least of which was his facility with...
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MAELSTROMOnce a peaceful pastoral kingdom overseen by a benevolent monarch, Valcrest is now ruled by the villainous Lady Renova, Mother of Evil, and her...
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FOUNDWhen we last saw this duo, in Lost (2022), the two went sledding on a winter’s day. Now the weather is warmer, and it’s time to head to the...
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A BRIDGE HOMEIt’s 1972, in San Solano, California, and Jacqui wants to earn a scholarship to UCLA offered by her private school. The problem is, she’s...
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GRANDMA'S HAIR IS ANKLE LENGTH / EL CABELLO DE ABUELA LE LLEGA HASTA LOS TOBILLOSThe child loves Grandma’s flowing, ankle-length black-and-white tresses and imbues them with magical qualities, comparing them to “a towering...
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THE LETTERS OF ERNEST HEMINGWAYThis installment, which covers two years of Hemingway’s letters in the mid-1930s, offers extraordinary insights into the author’s personal and...
