Accounts of real-life heroic people - both in nonfiction and historical fiction

Hotshot

by River Selby

Hardcover: Aug 2025 | Paperback: May 2026

The fierce debut memoir of a female firefighter, Hotshot navigates the personal and environmental dangers of wildland firefighting.

The Bright Sword

A Novel of King Arthur

by Lev Grossman

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Magicians trilogy returns with a triumphant reimagining of the King Arthur legend for the new millennium.

The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye

A Novel

by Briony Cameron

Hardcover: Jun 2024 | Paperback: May 2025

This epic, dazzling tale based on true events illuminates a woman of color's rise to power as one of the few purported female pirate captains to sail the Caribbean, and the forbidden love story that will shape the course of history.

Women of War

The Italian Assassins, Spies, and Couriers Who Fought the Nazis

by Suzanne Cope

Hardcover: Apr 2025

The gripping, true, and untold history of the Italian anti-fascist resistance during World War II, told through the stories of four spectacularly courageous women fighters.

The Women

A Novel

by Kristin Hannah

Hardcover: Feb 2024 | Paperback: Feb 2025

From master storyteller Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds, comes the story of a turbulent, transformative era in America: the 1960s.

Valiant Women

The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II

by Lena S. Andrews

Hardcover: Aug 2023 | Paperback: Aug 2024

A groundbreaking new history of the role of American servicewomen in WWII, illuminating their forgotten yet essential contributions to the Allies' victory.

The General and Julia

A Novel

by Jon Clinch

Hardcover: Nov 2023 | Paperback: Jul 2024

Ulysses S. Grant reflects on the crucial moments of his life as a husband, a father, a general, and a president while writing his memoirs and reckoning with his complicated legacy in this epic and intimate novel from the author of the "masterly" (The...

Foul Days

The Witch's Compendium of Monsters #1

by Genoveva Dimova

Paperback: Jun 2024

The Witcher meets Naomi Novik in this fast-paced fantasy rooted in Slavic folklore, from an assured new voice in genre fiction.

The House Is on Fire

by Rachel Beanland

Hardcover: Apr 2023 | Paperback: Apr 2024

The author of Florence Adler Swims Forever returns with a masterful work of historical fiction about an incendiary tragedy that shocked a young nation and tore apart a community in a single night—told from the perspectives of four people whose ...

Strike the Zither

Kingdom of Three #1

by Joan He

Hardcover: Oct 2022 | Paperback: Mar 2024

A dazzling new fantasy from New York Times and Indie bestselling author Joan He, Strike the Zither is a powerful, inventive, and sweeping fantasy that reimagines the Chinese classic tale of the Three Kingdoms.

Rough Sleepers

Dr. Jim O'Connell's urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people

by Tracy Kidder

Hardcover: Jan 2023 | Paperback: Jan 2024

The powerful story of an inspiring doctor who made a difference, by helping to create a program to care for Boston's homeless community—by the Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains

Half American

The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad

by Matthew Delmont

Hardcover: Oct 2022 | Paperback: Jan 2024

The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil rights expert and Dartmouth history professor Matthew Delmont.