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Ocean of Bones Follows the Black Divers Who Spent Years Hunting the Guerrero, a Pirate Slave Ship Wrecked Off Florida in 1827
David Kushner's new book braids two journeys almost 200 years apart: 561 captive Africans on a doomed pirate ship, and the divers who went looking for its wreck.
Hotel Exile Wins the 2026 American Library in Paris Book Award for Its History of the Lutetia in Wartime Paris
Jane Rogoyska's account of one Left Bank hotel, from refuge for exiles to German intelligence headquarters to a reception centre for returning deportees, was named winner on 5th November inside the hotel itself.
We the People Won the 2026 Pulitzer for History With the Story of Americans Who Tried to Rewrite the Constitution
Jill Lepore tells the history of the US Constitution through the people who tried to change it, and shows why almost none of them succeeded.
There Is No Place for Us Won the 2026 Pulitzer for Reporting on Homeless Families Who Work Full Time
There Is No Place for Us follows five working Atlanta families into cars, motel rooms and eviction courts, and it reads like a novel you cannot put down.
True Crime Author Maureen Hughes on Spotting a Rehearsed Answer and Staying Safe While Investigating the Mob
The former police officer and bodyguard has written about organized crime for 26 years, from a newspaper heiress's ties to Johnny Roselli to a 1956 Cairo case ruled a suicide.
Physician Associate and Spiritual Coach Elizabeth M. Lykins Says Lasting Change Begins in Stillness
An urgent care provider since 1996, Elizabeth wrote Reflections on Transcendence, which features 59 paintings by her lifelong friend, the late expressionist Steven D. Lyons, who selected each painting to match the text.
End Times Fascism: Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor Map a Far Right Preparing to Survive the Collapse It Is Causing
Out on 15 September from Allen Lane, the book grows a 5,000-word Guardian essay into a 384-page argument that Christian Zionists, Silicon Valley accelerationists and border-hardening governments now share one belief, that a cataclysm is coming and only a deserving few need saving from it, and answers with a politics of staying put.
Beautifully Unbroken Review: The Shower Shirt Inventor's Breast Cancer Memoir Begins with the Loss of Her Mother
The medical journalist who patented The Shower Shirt after her own mastectomy tells the story behind it, and the story of the mother she lost two weeks after her wedding, in a memoir that will be of most use to a woman with surgery ahead of her.
Regime Change- Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
Haberman and Swan report that in the summer of 2025 the White House Situation Room, the secure complex from which a president once watched the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, was turned to a very different purpose. According to their account, the most senior officials in the government gathered there, in the room built for the gravest decisions of national security, not to weigh a threat to the country but to manage a political crisis over the Jeffrey Epstein files. The authors describe a facility meant to protect the nation used instead to protect one man's reputation. If the reporting holds, it is the book's argument made concrete, the machinery of the state quietly turned towards the interests of the person at its head.
Dan Mrejeru's Speakingman: A Geologist's Theory on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
The Romanian-born engineer has spent two decades arguing that planetary cooling, not diet or mutation, rewired the hominin brain and produced human language. The seventh edition of The Speakingman arrives this month.
Climate Scientist Norm Leo Says Going Green Pays Better Than You Think
A climate scientist who has given more than 700 talks argues that sustainability is not about sacrifice. His new book maps the personal returns of every major climate solution.
45 Lessons from Kohala’s ‘Outhouse Mentality’ About Community, Humility And How To Live With Less On Lava Shorelines
Jeffrey Coakley’s Outhouse Mentality honours Kohala’s rural lifestyle, preserving oral histories, spearfishing and plantation past centred on community.