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New Books May 2025
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items Collection of new releases this May for your reading pleasure, from a variety of genre's.
The Manor of Dreams begins with the death of a fictional starlet named Vivian Yin, who has left her crumbling mansion to an unlikely heir: the daughter of her long-deceased former housekeeper. Vivian’s children now find themselves in a battle over th...
The Manor of Dreams
Jemimah Wei’s debut, The Original Daughter, tells the story of an unlikely sisterhood. Genevieve Yang’s life is completely upended when, at eight years old, she suddenly gains a de facto younger sister who is actually the daughter of an estranged rel...
The Original Daughter: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel
With her debut memoir, journalist Amanda Hess uses her own experience as a first-time mom to look at what it’s like to have and raise a child in the social media age.
Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age
In this follow-up to writer and editor Michele Filgate’s acclaimed 2019 anthology, What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About, authors, poets, and essayists including Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Susan Muaddi Darraj, and Kelly McMasters unspool their complicate...
What My Father and I Don't Talk About: Sixteen Writers Break the Silence
Ocean Vuong’s second novel begins when an elderly Lithuanian woman with early-stage dementia saves Hai, a troubled 19-year-old, from taking his own life.
The Emperor of Gladness: A Novel
After tackling the lives of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and Ulysses S. Grant with his previous biographies, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow returns with a definitive portrait of another American icon: Mark Twain
Mark Twain
The best-selling author of Nothing to See Here, starts with an unusual family reunion that leads to an even crazier family road trip. Twenty years after her father walks out on her and her mom, organic farmer Madeline “Mad” Hill meets Reuben, a 40-so...
Run for the Hills: A Novel
The Book of Records, is set in a mysterious shape-shifting enclave for displaced people where the past, present, and future collide. After fleeing their home in southern China, Lina and her ailing father have taken up residence at “the Sea.” There, t...
The Book of Records
British nature writer Robert Macfarlane argues that rivers are not just flowing bodies of water, but living beings with legal rights. Inspired by the Rights of Nature movement, the global effort to legally protect nature.
Is a River Alive?
Fundamentally, shamans are specialists who use altered states to engage with unseen realms and provide services like healing and divination. As Singh shows, shamanism’s appeal stems from its psychological resonance. Its essence is spiritual transform...
Shamanism: The Timeless Religion
Yiyun Li’s remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James.
Things in Nature Merely Grow
Dreaming of Home is a coming-of-age story for both a young woman finding her true self and a social movement of immigrant youth trailblazers who inspired the world and changed the lives of millions.
Dreaming of Home: How We Turn Fear into Pride, Power, and Real Change
Four wine experts, each at a crucial point in their lives, arrive at a French vineyard estate for an unforgettable experience-but not the kind they expected. Avery gave up her hard-won but exploitative sommelier job to come, while wine prodigy Cosmo ...
Lush
With exceptional sensitivity and depth, Knapp draws us into the story of one family, told through a prism of what-ifs, causing us to consider the "one . . . precious life" we are given. The book’s brilliantly imaginative structure, propulsive storyte...
The Names: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Novel
Many relationships are doomed from the start. But what if there was a way to save them? The characters in Magic Can't Save Us think they may have the answers--why visit a human counselor when you could spend the night in a house haunted by a polterge...
Magic Can't Save Us: Eighteen Tales of Likely Failure
Two women haunted by their sisters’ unsolved disappearances band together in this captivating mystery from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All Good People Here and host of the #1 true crime podcast Crime Junkie.
The Missing Half: A Novel
A richly imagined new view on the great human tradition of apocalypse, from the rise of Homo sapiens to the climate instability of our present, that defies conventional wisdom and long-held stories about our deep past to reveal how cataclysmic events...
Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures
The harder life gets, the less likely she is to remember the answers she’s spent her life learning. She wonders: I’m almost fifty years old. I’ve overcome a hell of a lot. Why do I wake up every day having forgotten everything I know?
We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions
What begins as a curiosity into the origins of the orange soon becomes a far-reaching odyssey of citrus for Katie Goh. Katie follows the complicated history of the orange from east-to-west and west-to-east, from a luxury item of European kings and Ch...
Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange
Three best friends turn to murder to collect on their husbands’ life insurance policies… But the husbands have a plan of their own in this darkly funny debut that will delight readers from the first laugh to the final twist.
The Retirement Plan: A Novel
There There meets All Fours in this irreverent coming-of-middle-age story about an Indigenous man's hunger for intimacy, healing, and a second chance. Abe Jacobs is Kanien'kehá ka from Ahkwesáhsne―or, as white people say, a Mohawk Indian from the Sai...
Old School Indian
With an armored, oath-bound hero reminiscent of The Mandalorian and the Asian-inspired epic fantasy of She Who Became the Sun, Neon Yang’s Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame is a stunning queer novella about a dragon hunter finding home with a d...
Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame
In the first book of a sizzling dystopian romance series, psychic gifts are a death sentence and there are rules to survival: Trust no one. Lie to everyone. And whatever you do, don’t fall for your greatest enemy.
Silver Elite
In the glow of their children’s exciting first year of college at a small private school in Northern California, five families gather over dinner and cocktails for the opening festivities of Parents Weekend. As the parents stay out way past their bed...
Parents Weekend: A Novel
Longlisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction, The Artist and the Feast is a captivating novel of love, art, food, desire and thwarted ambition, which builds propulsively over one scorching French summer in 1920s Provence.
The Artist and the Feast
Blake Porter is riding high, until he's not. Fired abruptly from his job as a VP of marketing and unable to make the mortgage payments on the new brownstone he shares with his fiancée, he's desperate to make ends meet. Enter Whitney. Beautiful, charm...
The Tenant
From bestselling authors and journalistic titans Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, Abundance is a once-in-a-generation, paradigm-shifting call to renew a politics of plenty, face up to the failures of liberal governance, and abandon the chosen scarcitie...
Abundance