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Across The Centuries

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Homebound

A Novel

by Portia Elan

Hardcover: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Five interlocking lives. One beloved story. A dazzling adventure across centuries and continents in search of the things that hold us together.

America, América

A New History of the New World

by Greg Grandin

Hardcover: Apr 2025 | Paperback: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, the first comprehensive history of the Western Hemisphere, a sweeping five-century narrative of North and South America that redefines our understanding of both.

The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton

A Novel

by Jennifer N. Brown

Hardcover: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A dual-timeline murder mystery set in an English country manor, when an ambitious professor discovers the long-lost manuscript of a Reformation-era prophetess.

The Bookshop

A History of the American Bookstore

by Evan Friss

Hardcover: Aug 2024 | Paperback: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cultural life, from department stores to indies, from highbrow dealers trading in first editions to sidewalk vendors, and from chains to special-interest...

Nightfaring

In Search of the Disappearing Darkness

by Megan Eaves-Egenes

Hardcover: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A heartfelt exploration of the night on Earth, following a travel journalist and dark sky advocate around the globe as she seeks out dark places in our ever-brightening world.

El Paso

Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory

by Jazmine Ulloa

Hardcover: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From New York Times reporter Jazmine Ulloa, a sweeping human history of El Paso, revealing violence, power, and privilege at play in America's most famous border town.

Dark Laboratory

On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis

by Tao Leigh Goffe

Hardcover: Jan 2025 | Paperback: Feb 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A groundbreaking investigation of the Caribbean as both an idyll in the American imagination and a dark laboratory of Western experimentation, revealing secrets to racial and environmental progress that impact how we live today.

The Seven Daughters of Dupree

A Novel

by Nikesha Elise Williams

Hardcover: Jan 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the two-time Emmy Award–winning producer and host of the Black and Published podcast comes a sweeping multi-generational epic following seven generations of Dupree women as they navigate love, loss, and the unyielding ties of family in the...

The Age of Calamities

Stories

by Senaa Ahmad

Paperback: Jan 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Written by an inimitable new voice, The Age of Calamities is a genre-defying, mind-bending collection of absurdist, funny, and speculative short stories.

Alien Earths

The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos

by Lisa Kaltenegger

Hardcover: Apr 2024 | Paperback: Dec 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in the quest to discover whether we are alone.

As Many Souls as Stars

by Natasha Siegel

Hardcover: Nov 2025

Critics' Consensus:

For fans of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, an inventive and romantic speculative novel about two women—a witch and an immortal demon—who make a Faustian bargain and are drawn into a cat-and-mouse chase across multiple lifetimes.

Beasts of the Sea

A Novel

by Iida Turpeinen

Hardcover: Nov 2025

Critics' Consensus:

In the spirit of Richard Powers and Daniel Mason, a novel spanning three centuries and tied together by the tale of Steller's sea cow—a long-extinct denizen of the northern oceans—at once intimate and sweeping about the tragic clash ...

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