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	Amanda Eyre Ward's Arrivals and Departures gets two rave reviews, and features the same characters as found in The Jetsetters, a New York Times' bestseller and Reese Book Club selection. Booklist, in a starred review, says "Ward deals with heavy themes with a deft hand, and readers will root for the flawed Perkinses even as they bury their heads in the (wine-soaked) sand ... Book clubs will also be drawn to its satisfying but hardly neat ending." Kirkus calls it "a propulsive novel about the complex bonds of family."
	Rebecca Kauffman's The Reservation is a People Magazine, Most Anticipated Book of the Year; an Indie Next Pick; and a Southern Living, Most Anticipated Book of the Year. Publishers Weekly in a starred review calls it "a pitch-perfect mash-up of Clue and The Bear." "This is Big Night, but with sandy blond hair and a Southern drawl! So, so good, " says Emma Straub. "Observant, wry and witty, The Reservation is a joy--just don't read it while you’re hungry," according to BookPage.
	Christine Webb's' The Arrogant Ape is a 2025 New York Times' Notable Book. Sy Montgomery calls the book "Exciting. What Webb advocates is nothing short of a Copernican-level revolution." Publishers Weekly says "Webb debuts with a persuasive and accessible critique of anthropocentrism. She urges humans to relinquish their self-inflated top-dog status and recognize the symbiosis among organisms. As global warming and wildlife destruction threaten planetary health, Webb makes a convincing case for humility."
	Alix Morris' A Year with the Seals is named one of 10 best books of 2025 by Science News and is a top Noteworthy Book by the Washington Post. It is given a starred Publisher's Weekly, where it is described as "philosophical and impressively reported, this enthralls." Kirkus also in a starred review says "Morris, a masterful storyteller, has done full justice to these creatures of the deep. A wondrous look at our love-hate relationship with the most human of animals."
	Hala Alyan's memoir I'll Tell You When I'm Home receives a number of high honors: National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist; Electronic Literarutre Best Nonfiction of 2025; New York Magazine Best Books of 2025; New Yorker Recommended Books of 2025; NPR Books We Love 2025; Time 100 Must Read Books of 2025. The New York Times calls it "Gorgeous, lyrical....the author's narrative gifts shine through, the brief fragments making for quick, propulsive reading." The Guardian describes it as a "story of the violence of exile over generations, a profound desire for motherhood, as well as surrogacy, addiction and the importance of remembering."
	Adam Ratner discusses his book Booster Shots on Fresh Air; Morning Edition, The Lead with Jake Tapper, and more. Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, says: "Ratner provides fascinating scientific insight into measles, explaining how the virus induces a kind of immunological amnesia by targeting immune cells responsible for remembering how to counteract previously encountered viruses, and he makes a strong case that health depends on much more than biology. This will open readers' eyes."
	Bonny Reichert's How to Share an Egg is included in NPR's 2025 "Top Book We Love" selection and an Amazon Pick. Booklist, in a starred review, states "This often harrowing but ultimately life-affirming tale of family bonds, food, and love will touch even the most hardened of readers." Publishers Weekly, in another starred review, calls it "a mesmerizing memoir ... Reichert weaves a rich narrative tapestry that traces her journey toward self-knowledge in luminous prose. Nimble and nourishing, this is not to be missed." Ruth Reichl exclaims, "I started crying on page one; a few pages later I burst into laughter. This beautifully written book takes readers on an emotional journey that is both heartbreaking and hopeful."
	Susannah Gibsons The Bluestockings is one of the New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2024; receives a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice notice, and is one of The New Yorker's Best Books of 2024. It is described as "fast-paced and intimate... Gibson conjures palpably the all too ephemeral achievement of the Bluestockings: their sparkling conversation, wafting out through high windows, to be borne down the centuries by the London breeze."
	Dan Light's The White Ladder is an Amazon Pick for Best Nonfiction. Publisher Weekly exclaims it "a high-octane history of mountaineering ... a spirited, adventuresome chronicle." The New York Times calls it "an engaging and agreeably ornate history of earlier mountaineering ...paints a vivid picture of this seemingly innate need and those who first heeded its call." The Wall Street Journal agrees it is "a thoughtful, nuanced, engaging history."
	Gisli Paulsson's The Last of Its Kind is shorlisted for the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize. The Times Literary Supplement calls it "a slow-moving thriller, a murder-mystery where we know from the outset who did it."
	Amy Stewart's The Tree Collectors gets rave reviews: "Something profound is happening here: by creating a space for people to talk about something they love, Stewart made me feel more tender-hearted toward my fellow humans, " says Scientific American. "In turns funny and poignant," says Lit Hub. Elizabeth Gilbert says, " I love everything Amy Stewart has ever created, but this book is my favorite yet. I'm giving this book to everyone I know. Because it, like its subject, is a gift."
	Hala Alyan's The Moon That Turns You Back "grapples heroically with the fissures of family and lineage caused by displacement and migration," says Booklist in a starred review. Publishers Weekly, also in a starred review, says "these powerful poems linger long in the mind." Bookpage describes them as "spellbinding...Hala Alyan renders rich, intricate landscapes of heritage and place."
	Matthew F. Delmont's Half American is a A New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year from TIME, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Washington Independent Review of Books, and more! It gets two rave reviews in The New York Times ("Delmont is an energetic storyteller, giving a vibrant sense of his subject in all of its dimensions"). It gets FOUR starred reviews from Publishers Weekly ("Revelatory ... an eloquent and essential corrective to the historical record"), Kirkus ("A vital story well rendered, recounting a legacy that should be recognized, remembered, and applauded"), Library Journal ("What is sure to become the standard text on the experience of Black U.S. soldiers who fought in World War II.... This is long overdue") and Booklist (Delmont's work restores these times to our collective memory"). Barnes & Noble Reads calls it "Meticulously researched and indispensable, this is the World War II book that every history buff and military history fan should be reading."
	Tyranny of the Gene is "[a] lively history ... interweaving tales of environmental and genomic medicine ...Tabery's excellent book argues powerfully for a more balanced approach to human health research," says Science Magazine. Publishers Weekly in a starred review calls it "incisive . . . Tabery is a penetrating critic...This damning take on scientific bias is not to be missed." Kirkus states that "Tabery succeeds in raising a compelling alarm about where things stand and making clear that the current situation could have been much different, all while laying the groundwork for an alternative future."
	Requiem for the Massacre by RJ Young is an NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary Work - Non-Fiction and a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of The Year. The New York Times says it "grapples with what it means to be a Black man living in Tulsa post-Watchmen ... No matter how many times the tale is told, it never loses its devastating power; the pure and precise savagery is searing." It is called "essential reading for the next hundred years," by Literary Hub. Shelf Awareness, in a starred review, says "Young's clear-eyed, first-person narration blazes from the page ... Unsettling, fierce and necessary, Requiem for the Massacre is a vital primer on a slice of American history that has been hidden for too long."
	Nancy Marie Brown's Looking for the Hidden Folk is a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice. In their review, they say "In Looking for the Hidden Folk, Brown overlays a glowing web of connections on Iceland's folkloric - and literal - landscape of ice and fire, illuminating the answers to the many questions she poses. Her passionate defense of the huldufolk would gratify the most sensitive elf....an impassioned, informative love letter to Iceland." Bookpage, in a starred review, describes it as a "compelling and highly readable book [that] offers a thought-provoking examination of nature of belief itself."
	New York Times' bestselling author Frans de Waal's Different is A Kirkus Best Science and Medicine Book of 2022. It was longlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and the Royal Society Science Prize. The Washington Post says it "adds an important evolutionary dimension to one of the most complex issues of our time... The beauty of a book by Frans de Waal is that once you read it, you’ll never look at your own species the same way again." It is "a brilliant and fascinating book that brings a scientific, compassionate and balanced approach to some of the hottest controversies about sex and gender," according to Yuval Noah Harari. Sy Montogemery says "This book is superb! Frans de Waal is not only one of the world's most respected primatologists--he's also a ballsy feminist who, in these riveting pages, ventures into territory where most writers in academia and letters fear to tread.... These pages are packed with great stories, fascinating data, and thought-provoking ideas." Kirkus gives it a starred review, and Publishers Weekly calls it fascinating.
	Rachel Trethewey's The Churchill Sisters is an IndieNext Pick. Publishers Weekly says the book "a brisk pace and succeeds in depicting a trio of intriguing women at a perilous moment in world affairs" and Kirkus describes it as "an engrossing and intelligent group biography."
	Seb Falk's The Light Ages has been named a Best Book of 2020 by The Telegraph, The Times, and BBC History Magazine and is shortlisted for the Hughes Prize, awarded by the British Society for the History of Science to the best (history of science) book accessible to a general audience, published in English in the last two years. The Wall Street Journal calls the book "magnificent...[Falk lets] us inhabit, for a spell of seven finely crafted chapters, the vibrant mind of a 14th-century Benedictine monk, John Westwyk." Alex Orlando from Discover Magazine says: "Falk's bubbling curiosity and strong sense of storytelling always swept me along. By the end, The Light Ages didn't just broaden my conception of science; even as I scrolled away on my Kindle, it felt like I was sitting alongside Westwyk at St. Albans abbey, leafing through dusty manuscripts by candlelight."
	Marcia Chatelain's Franchise is awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in History. It is a New York Times' Critics Pick of 2020 and a Smithsonian Scholars' Top Book. The Times in their review describes the book as "smart and capacious....[Chatelain] gives this important book an empathetic core as well as analytical breadth." Kirkus calls it "an eye-opening and unique history lesson." Franchise is the winner of the Hagley Prize in Business History and the 2021 Organization of American Historians Lawrence W. Levine Award. Library Journal says it's "invaluable for those studying the intersections of race, economics, and business in the United States."