Birdpedia by Christopher Leahy
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An ornithologist provides a handy guide for everything from bird calls to bird plumage to bird poop.
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Books Promiscuously Read by Heather Cass White
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A surprisingly stirring description of reading as a means of self-claiming.
Read MoreWinning Independence by John Ferling
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A veteran historian re-assesses the final years of the American Revolution.
Read MoreFox & I by Catherine Raven
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The memoir of an unlikely bond that forms between a solitary woman and a wild fox.
Read MoreThe Indispensables by Patrick O'Donnell
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A new book looks at the crucial roles played in the American Revolution by the mariners of Marblehead.
Read MoreEverything Now by Rosecrans Baldwin
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Rosecrans Baldwin writes a passionate, impressionistic profile of the strangest city in the US.
Read MoreGood Behaviour, by Molly Keane
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Molly Keane’s masterpiece, a hilarious and withering portrayal of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy, is back in print.
Read MoreDominus by Steven Saylor
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A big historical novel about two families living through some of the most turbulent years in Rome’s history.
Read MoreA Theater for Dreamers, by Polly Samson
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Leonard Cohen cameos in a seductive new novel set in the Greek island of Hydra.
Read MoreThe Year of Our Love by Caterina Bonvicini
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A critically-acclaimed and best-selling Italian novel about star-crossed lovers gets a new translation into English.
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Plunder by Cynthia Saltzman
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The fascinating story of how Veronese’s most famous painting, completed in Venice, ended up in the Louvre.
Read MoreThe Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway by Una McCormack
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The fictional autobiography of Star Trek Voyager’s inimitable Captain Janeway.
Read MoreThe Age of Decadence by Simon Heffer
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The Edwardian Era of ostentatious wealth and social upheaval is dramatized in Simon Heffer’s big new book.
Read MoreThe Crown in Crisis by Alexander Larman
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Alexander Larman recounts the story of the Abdication Crisis.
Read MoreDeath with a Double Edge by Anne Perry
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Young lawyer Daniel Pitt becomes ensnared in a mysterious back-alley murder.
Read MoreGenesis by Guido Tonelli
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Particle physicist Guido Tonelli writes about the first fraction of a second of our universe.
Read MorePlaces of Mind by Timothy Brennan
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“Orientalism” author Edward Said gets an affectionate new biography.
Read MoreA Whole World: Letters from James Merrill
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A collection of wonderful, chatty letters by the poet James Merrill.
Read MoreOn the House by John Boehner
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Former Speaker of the House John Boehner writes a memoir that he intends to be full of cuss words and honesty. He succeeds at about 50% of that.
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