Two grieving fathers—one Black, one white, and both ex-cons—join forces to avenge the murders of their sons. Their violent search for answers forces them to confront their own prejudices, regrets, and ideas about redemption.

In a small California town, thirteen-year-old Duchess tries to protect her younger brother as an old crime and a newly released prisoner reopen long-buried wounds. It is a mystery about guilt, loyalty, and the families people are born into and build for themselves.

Kate and Peter grow up next door to each other as their two NYPD families become bound by friendship, love, and a devastating act of violence. Over several decades, they must decide whether forgiveness can overcome the damage inherited from their parents.

A young Black man is recruited from a coffee shop into an elite, cult-like sales team at a wildly successful New York startup. His rapid transformation into “Buck” becomes a sharp satire of race, ambition, and corporate power.

After beloved Minnesota newspaper columnist Haze Evans suffers a stroke, her paper begins rerunning fifty years of her columns. As the community revisits her fearless writing, old arguments, family stories, and the legacy of one unapologetically feminist voice come back to life.

A family tragedy leaves former sitcom star Patrick unexpectedly caring for his young niece and nephew at his Palm Springs home. His humor and unconventional “Guncle Rules” help all three of them work through grief and rediscover what family can mean.

Two Minnesota sisters are divided when one inherits the family farm and builds a beer empire while the other struggles to get by. Across generations, brewing, hard work, and family secrets create an affectionate Midwestern story about ambition and reconciliation.

An elderly stranger arrives in Golden, Georgia, and buys ninety-two pencil portraits displayed in a coffee shop. His plan to return each portrait to its subject creates a chain of quiet kindness, connection, and transformation throughout the town.

During the Great Depression, a group of women ride through the Kentucky mountains delivering library books to isolated families. Their dangerous work brings independence, friendship, and conflict with the people who want them to remain in their prescribed roles.

Two sisters in Nazi-occupied France respond to war in very different ways—one protecting her family at home and the other joining the Resistance. Their intertwined stories reveal the courage, sacrifice, and hidden work of women during World War II.

Twin sisters from a small Black community choose radically different lives after running away—one returns home while the other secretly passes as white. Their decisions continue shaping both families when the next generation’s lives intersect.

The second generation of five interconnected families experiences the rise of Nazi Germany, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the beginning of the Cold War. Their personal relationships unfold across Britain, Germany, Russia, and the United States as history reshapes their lives.

Barack Obama traces his path from community organizing and early campaigns through the first years of his presidency. He reflects candidly on major decisions, political compromise, race, family life, and the moral pressure of leading on the world stage.

Investigative journalist John Carreyrou chronicles the rise and collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar blood-testing company led by Elizabeth Holmes. Whistleblowers and reporting reveal how secrecy, intimidation, and Silicon Valley hype concealed technology that did not work.

This practical innovation guide argues that ambitious problems require more than isolated products or ideas. It offers a step-by-step approach for understanding complex ecosystems, setting bolder goals, and delivering solutions at a larger scale.

Tara Westover recounts growing up in an isolated survivalist family in rural Idaho without formal schooling. Her pursuit of education eventually takes her to Cambridge and forces her to reconsider family loyalty, memory, and the possibility of remaking her life.

Stephanie Land recounts raising her young daughter while cleaning houses, living below the poverty line, and navigating an assistance system that often makes survival harder. Her memoir gives a personal view of low-wage work, housing insecurity, and the exhausting calculations required just to get by.

Jessica Simpson looks beyond the pop-culture caricature to tell the story of her music career, relationships, body image, business success, and private struggles. She writes candidly about addiction and recovery while reclaiming the narrative of her own life.

CrossFit star Brooke Wells recounts the devastating elbow injury she suffered during the 2021 CrossFit Games and the total reconstruction that followed. Her comeback story focuses on the mental work of overcoming fear and returning to competition less than a year later.

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman recounts a life driven by curiosity, from scientific problem-solving to music, travel, and elaborate practical jokes. The anecdotes reveal an unconventional mind that treated nearly everything as an experiment worth exploring.

Rebecca Skloot traces the life of Henrietta Lacks, whose cancer cells were taken without her knowledge and became the endlessly reproducing HeLa cell line. The book connects major medical advances to one family’s experience of race, poverty, consent, and scientific ethics.

After receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis, professor Randy Pausch used his final lecture to reflect on achieving childhood dreams and helping others pursue theirs. The book expands those lessons into a warm, practical meditation on persistence, gratitude, and living fully.

This collection gathers Richard Feynman’s interviews, speeches, lectures, and essays on science, discovery, and intellectual honesty. Together they offer an accessible portrait of how a relentlessly curious physicist approached both ideas and everyday life.

Simon Singh uncovers the sophisticated mathematics hidden throughout The Simpsons and Futurama, much of it planted by writers with advanced math backgrounds. Familiar jokes and episodes become gateways into topics ranging from pi and prime numbers to infinity and Fermat’s Last Theorem.

Drawing on diaries from his medical training, Adam Kay gives a darkly funny and often heartbreaking account of life on the front line of Britain’s National Health Service. The entries reveal the absurdity, exhaustion, and emotional cost hidden behind hospital doors.

Journalist Emma Brown combines reporting, research, and boys’ own testimony to examine a crisis in young men’s emotional and physical health. She explores how schools, families, peer culture, and ideas about masculinity can be reshaped to help boys thrive.

This second collection of Richard Feynman’s reminiscences moves between intimate stories about family and marriage and his investigation of the Challenger disaster. His humor and skepticism show how independent thinking can illuminate both private life and public institutions.

Aubrey Gordon examines how anti-fat bias is embedded in health care, employment, public spaces, and everyday relationships. Blending personal experience with social analysis, she argues that body acceptance must be matched by concrete civil rights and structural change.

Linguist Amanda Montell explores how English has been used to judge, diminish, and police women—and how speakers can reclaim it. With humor and cultural history, she shows that debates over voices, insults, slang, and grammar are also debates about power.

Elite runner Meb Keflezighi organizes his memoir around the twenty-six marathons of his professional career. Each race becomes a lesson about training, injury, family, identity, faith, resilience, and applying a runner’s mindset beyond competition.

Olympian, filmmaker, and writer Alexi Pappas reflects on ambition, grief, mental health, creativity, and the relationships that shaped her. Her essays treat courage not as fearlessness but as a practice of befriending pain while continuing to pursue a meaningful life.

Keira D’Amato tells how she stepped away from elite running, built a family and career, and unexpectedly returned to become one of America’s fastest marathoners. The memoir reframes success around joy, patience, and a life large enough to contain more than personal records.