Biography & Memoir
A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention
Discovering My ADHD Mind—A Memoir
by Rebecca Schiller
Hardcover | $25.95 US / $33.95 CAN

It should have been Rebecca Schiller’s dream come true: moving her young family to the English countryside to raise goats and coax their own fruit and vegetables from the land. But, as she writes: The summer of striding out toward … Continue reading

A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention
Discovering the Beauty of My ADHD Mind—A Memoir
by Rebecca Schiller
Paperback | $16.95 US / $21.95 CAN

Moving to a small farm is Rebeca Schiller’s dream come true. But as her young family adjusts to a new life in the countryside, her dream is threatened by something within. I’m aware of everything, all at once, which is … Continue reading

A Woman on the Edge of Time
A Son Investigates His Trailblazing Mother's Young Suicide
by Jeremy Gavron
Hardcover | $24.95 US / $34.95 CAN

In London, 1965, a brilliant young woman—a prescient advocate for women’s rights—has just gassed herself to death, leaving behind a suicide note, two young sons, and a soon-to-be-published book: The Captive Wife. No one had ever imagined that Hannah Gavron … Continue reading

A Woman on the Edge of Time
A Son's Search for a Mother Who Wanted More
by Jeremy Gavron
Paperback | $14.95 US / $22.95 CAN

London, 1965: A brilliant young woman has just gassed herself to death, leaving behind a note, two young sons, and a soon-to-be-published book. A promising academic and feminist at the dawn of modern feminism, no one had imagined Hannah Gavron … Continue reading

All I Know Now
Wonderings and Advice on Making Friends, Making Mistakes, Falling in (and Out of) Love, and Other Adventures in Growing Up Hopefully
by Carrie Hope Fletcher
Paperback | $15.95 US / $23.95 CAN

Today, Carrie Hope Fletcher is living her dream as an actress and YouTube star. But not long ago, she was trying to survive the many perils of the Teen Age . . . The Rumor Mill: The more a rumor … Continue reading

Confessions of a Bad Beekeeper
What Not to Do When Keeping Bees (With Apologies to My Own)
by Bill Turnbull
Paperback | $16.95 US

Bill Turnbull had no intention of becoming a beekeeper. But when he saw an ad for beekeeping classes–after a swarm of bees landed in his suburban backyard–it seemed to be a sign. Despite being stung on the head–twice–at his first … Continue reading

Dear Oliver
An Unexpected Friendship with Oliver Sacks
by Susan R. Barry, Oliver Sacks (Contributor)
Hardcover | $28.00 US / $36.50 CAN

To the world, he was Dr. Sacks, the brilliant neurologist behind bestselling books like Musicophilia and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. To professor Susan Barry, he became Dear Oliver—her mentor, friend, and confidant over the course … Continue reading

Diary of an Apprentice Astronaut
by Samantha Cristoforetti
Paperback | $17.95 US / $23.50 CAN

Two hundred days orbiting Earth on the International Space Station. Five years working and training with the aerospace community across the world. A lifetime of choices leading to the stars. These are the components of Samantha Cristoforetti’s dream, a dream … Continue reading

Fifty Years After Kitty Genovese
Inside the Case That Rocked Our Faith in Each Other
by Albert A. Seedman, Peter Hellman
Paperback | $3.99 US

Fifty years after she was viciously attacked in full view of several neighbors and within earshot of still more, the name of murder victim Kitty Genovese still conjures the ugly spectre of American apathy. “37 Saw Murder but Didn’t Call … Continue reading

Going the Other Way
An Intimate Memoir of Life In and Out of Major League Baseball
by Billy Bean, Chris Bull
Paperback | $16.95 US / $21.95 CAN

More than ten years after its original publication, Going the Other Way remains deeply moving, and more timely than ever. By virtue of a relentless work ethic, exceptional multi-sport talent, and a quick left-handed swing, Billy Bean made it to … Continue reading

Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me
Depression in the First Person
by Anna Mehler Paperny
Paperback with flaps | $17.95 US

Depression is a havoc-wreaking illness that masquerades as personal failing and hijacks your life. After a major suicide attempt in her early twenties, Anna Mehler Paperny resolved to put her reporter’s skills to use to get to know her enemy, … Continue reading

How to Be a Girl
A Mother’s Memoir of Raising Her Transgender Daughter
by Marlo Mack
Paperback | $17.95 US / $23.50 CAN

Mama, something went wrong in your tummy. And it made me come out as a boy instead of a girl. When Marlo Mack’s three-year-old utters these words, her world splits wide open. Friends and family, experts, and Marlo herself had … Continue reading

How to Be a Sister
A Love Story with a Twist of Autism
by Eileen Garvin
Paperback | $15.95 US / $21.00 CAN

Eileen Garvin’s older sister, Margaret, was diagnosed with severe autism at age three. Growing up alongside Margaret wasn’t easy: Eileen often found herself in situations that were simultaneously awkward, hilarious, and heartbreaking. For example, losing a blue plastic hairbrush could … Continue reading

How We Do Family
From Adoption to Trans Pregnancy, What We Learned about Love and LGBTQ Parenthood
by Trystan Reese
Hardcover | $24.95 US / $32.95 CAN

Trystan and Biff had been dating for just a year when the couple learned that Biff’s niece and nephew were about to be removed from their home by Child Protective Services. Immediately, Trystan and Biff took in one-year-old Hailey and … Continue reading

In Search of Buddha’s Daughters
A Modern Journey Down Ancient Roads
by Christine Toomey
Hardcover | $24.95 US

In 2011, Christine Toomey met an unforgettable group of Tibetan Buddhist nuns. After hearing their stories—of prison, extreme hardship, and ultimately fleeing across the Himalayas into exile—she resolved to learn more about the private, courageous women of Buddhism: who they … Continue reading

In Search of Buddha’s Daughters
The Hidden Lives and Fearless Work of Buddhist Nuns
by Christine Toomey
Paperback | $16.95 US

They come to the monastic Buddhist life from every faith and career: a policewoman, a princess, a Bollywood star, a violinist. Out of the public eye, despite hardship and even persecution, they vow to seek enlightenment in a world full … Continue reading

It’s a Long Road to a Tomato
Tales of an Organic Farmer Who Quit the Big City for the (Not So) Simple Life
by Keith Stewart
Paperback | $18.95 US / $28.95 CAN

Keith Stewart, already in his early forties and discontent with New York’s corporate grind, moved upstate and started a one-man organic farm in 1986. Today, having surmounted the seemingly endless challenges to succeeding as an organic farmer, Keith employs seven … Continue reading

Memories of My Life in a Polish Village, 1930–1949
by Toby Knobel Fluek, Rakhmiel Peltz (Foreword)
Paper Over Boards | $24.95 US / $32.95 CAN

In her own words and with her own beautiful paintings and drawings, artist Toby Knobel Fluek (1926–2011) lovingly unfurls a unique view of Jewish life. She introduces us to her village, to her family, to the people among whom they … Continue reading

My Caesarean
Twenty-One Mothers on the C-Section Experience and After
by Amanda Fields, Rachel Moritz
Paperback | $15.95 US / $21.00 CAN

“No one talks about C-sections as surgery,” writes SooJin Pate. “They talk about it as if it’s just another way—albeit more convenient way—of giving birth.” The twenty-one essays in My Caesarean add back to the conversation the missing voices of … Continue reading

My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me
A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past
by Jennifer Teege, Nikola Sellmair
Hardcover | $24.95 US / $37.95 CAN

When Jennifer Teege, a German-Nigerian woman, happened to pluck a library book from the shelf, she had no idea that her life would be irrevocably altered. Recognizing photos of her mother and grandmother in the book, she discovers a horrifying … Continue reading

My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me
A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past
by Jennifer Teege, Nikola Sellmair
Paperback | $14.95 US / $19.95 CAN

At age 38, Jennifer Teege happened to pluck a library book from the shelf—and discovered a horrifying fact: Her grandfather was Amon Goeth, the vicious Nazi commandant depicted in Schindler’s List. Reviled as the “butcher of Płaszów,” Goeth was executed … Continue reading

Nearly Departed
Adventures in Loss, Cancer, and Other Inconveniences
by Gila Pfeffer
Hardcover | $27.95 US / $36.50 CAN

By the time she was thirty, Gila Pfeffer was the oldest living member of her family, having lost her mother to breast cancer and her father to colon cancer. A simple blood test confirmed she carried the BRCA1 gene—which put … Continue reading

Nerve
Adventures in the Science of Fear
by Eva Holland
Paperback | $15.95 US

Since childhood, Eva Holland has been gripped by two debilitating phobias: fear of losing her mother and fear of heights. When the worst comes to pass with her mother’s sudden death in 2015, followed by an ice-climbing expedition that ends … Continue reading

Nine Minds
Inner Lives on the Spectrum
by Daniel Tammet
Paperback | $16.95 US / $21.95 CAN

A Japanese researcher in psychology sets out to measure loneliness while drawing on her own experience of autism. A quirky boy growing up in 1950s Ottawa sows the seeds of his future Hollywood stardom. In the US, a nonverbal man … Continue reading

One Life to Give
A Path to Finding Yourself by Helping Others
by Mary Akers, Andrew Bienkowski
Paperback | $16.95 US

In the winter of 1939, five-year-old Andrew Bienkowski was exiled to Siberia with his family. The two years of struggle that followed—especially his grandfather’s amazing act of sacrifice during their first long, cold winter—have informed the rest of Andrew’s life. … Continue reading

Polar Vortex
A Family Memoir
by Denise Dorrance
Paperback | $19.95 US / $25.95 CAN

What do you do when your mother can’t remember who you are? You catch the first flight from your adopted home of London to your original hometown of Cedar Rapids, lowa, where she’s hospitalized, injured, and struggling with the swirling … Continue reading

Rogues’ Gallery
The Rise (and Occasional Fall) of Art Dealers, the Hidden Players in the History of Art
by Philip Hook
Hardcover | $25.95 US / $38.95 CAN

Here for the first time is the history of art dealers, those extraordinary men and women who, over centuries (and almost entirely out of the public eye), built their profession on a singular skill: identifying the intangible but infinitely desirable … Continue reading

Second Suns
Two Trailblazing Doctors and Their Quest to Cure Blindness, One Pair of Eyes at a Time
by David Oliver Relin
Paperback | $18.95 US / $24.95 CAN

Second Suns is the unforgettable true story of two very different doctors with a common mission: to rid the world of preventable blindness. Dr. Geoffrey Tabin was the high-achieving “bad boy” of his class at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Sanduk … Continue reading

Sightlines
by Kathleen Jamie
Paperback | $14.95 US / $19.95 CAN

With her poet’s eye and naturalist’s affinity for wild places, Kathleen Jamie reports from the field in this enthralling collection of fourteen essays whose power derives from the stubborn attention she pays to everything around her. Jamie roams her native … Continue reading

Sixty
A Diary of My Sixty-First Year
by Ian Brown
Hardcover | $24.95 US

As Ian Brown’s sixtieth birthday loomed, every moment seemed to present a choice: Confront, or deny, the biological fact that the end was now closer than the beginning. True, he was beginning to notice memory lapses, creaking knees, and a … Continue reading

Sixty: A Diary
My Year of Aging Semi-Gracefully
by Ian Brown
Paperback | $15.95 US

As acclaimed journalist and author Ian Brown’s sixtieth birthday loomed, every moment seemed to present a choice: Confront, or deny, the biological fact that the end was now closer than the beginning. Brown chose instead to notice every moment—to try … Continue reading

The Blink of an Eye
A Memoir of Dying—and Learning How to Live Again
by Rikke Schmidt Kjaergaard, Bill Bryson
Paperback | $15.95 US / $21.00 CAN

It was New Year’s Day. Rikke Schmidt Kjærgaard, a young mother and scientist, was celebrating with family and friends when she was struck down with a sudden fever. Within hours, she’d suffered multiple organ failure and was clinically dead. Then, … Continue reading

The Call of the Farm
An Unexpected Year of Getting Dirty, Home Cooking, and Finding Myself
by Rochelle Bilow
Paperback | $15.95 US / $23.95 CAN

Rochelle Bilow, a classically trained cook and aspiring food writer, was nursing a broken heart and frustrated with her yet-to-take-off career when she set out to write a short profile of a small, sustainable CSA farm in central New York. … Continue reading

The Feldafing Boys
Uncovering My Father’s Stolen Childhood at an Elite Nazi School
by Helene Munson
Paperback | $18.95 US / $24.95 CAN

When Helene Munson finally reads her father, Hans Dunker’s, wartime journal, she discovers secrets he kept buried for seven decades. This is no ordinary historical document but a personal account of devastating trauma. During World War II, the Nazis trained … Continue reading

The Incredible yet True Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt
The Greatest Inventor-Naturalist-Scientist-Explorer Who Ever Lived
by Volker Mehnert, Claudia Lieb
Paper over Boards | $17.95 US / $23.50 CAN

Explorer. Naturalist. All-around genius. Lost hero of science. In his time, Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) was world-famous. Why? He led one of the first major scientific expeditions into the South American rain forest and another into the wilds of Siberia. … Continue reading

The Lady and the Peacock
The Life of Aung San Suu Kyi
by Peter Popham
Paperback | $16.95 US

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi—known to the world as an icon for democracy and nonviolent dissent in oppressed Burma, and to her followers as simply “The Lady”—has recently returned to international headlines. Now, this major new biography … Continue reading

The Long COVID Survival Guide
How to Take Care of Yourself and What Comes Next
by Fiona Lowenstein
Paperback | $18.95 US / $24.95 CAN

For people living with Long COVID, navigating the uncharted territory of this new chronic illness can be challenging. With over two hundred unique symptoms, and with doctors continuing to work toward a cure, people experiencing Long COVID are often left … Continue reading

The Longest Race
A Lifelong Runner, an Iconic Ultramarathon, and the Case for Human Endurance
by Ed Ayres
Paperback | $14.95 US / $22.95 CAN

Among endurance runners, there are those who have run very long distances, and then there are those who have run very long distances for a very long time. Ed Ayres exemplifies the latter; having run in over 600 races across fifty-five years, he is … Continue reading

The Motherhood Affidavits
A Memoir
by Laura Jean Baker
Hardcover | $24.95 US / $32.95 CAN

With the birth of her first child, soon-to-be professor Laura Jean Baker finds herself electrified by oxytocin, the “love hormone”—the first effective antidote to her lifelong depression. Over the next eight years, her “oxy” cravings, and her family, only grow—to … Continue reading