Four Thousand Paws on the 2025 Texas Topaz Nonfiction reading listAn intimate account—the first from a trail veterinarian—of the canines who brave the challenges of the Iditarod.
"Ball's lucid and timely book offers a portal into a new realm."—The Economist
Longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award for PoetryFor fans of Diane Seuss and Victoria Chang, a coruscating collection that eloquently invokes the perseverance and myth of the Filipino diaspora in America
Brilliantly conceived and majestically written, this monumental work of European history recasts the five-hundred-year history of Germany
From vaudeville tank shows to the Olympic arena, a ground-breaking history of how women found synchronicity—and power—in water
No Democracy Lasts Forever argues that the Constitution has become a threat to American democracy and must be dramatically changed or replaced if secession is to be avoided
A vibrant new translation of Machado de Assis's classic novel about a young man flush with newfound wealth, who promptly gets swindled
A brilliantly conceived and provocative work from an award-winning historian that examines how seven twentieth-century social movements transformed America
A trenchant reclamation of the Chinese American movie star, whose battles against cinematic exploitation and endemic racism are set against the currents of twentieth-century history
War forced millions of Syrians from their homes. It also forced them to rethink the meaning of home itself
A leading journalist and public intellectual explains the long, disturbing history behind the American Right’s embrace of foreign dictators, from Kaiser Wilhelm and Mussolini to Putin and Orban
From The New York Times best-selling historian comes a gripping account of the crisis of the Weimar Republic, when hyperinflation and political upheaval threatened to unravel a new experiment in democracy