THE PHILOSOPHY OF CRIME: Searching for the Truth in True Crime, James Renner
Investigative reporter, author and popular host of true crime podcasts Renner tackles the biggest questions behind our obsession with true crime–Why is true crime so popular? How can lawyers defend guilty people? Why does the US still have the death penalty? and many more–and looks to classical philosophy for the answers. (Morehouse Publishing, World English […]
THE GREEN SAHARA: Regaining Paradise in the Face of Climate Change, John Gaudet
THE GREEN SAHARA: Regaining Paradise in the Face of Climate Change (Bloomsbury Academic, February 2026). The book explores how solar and wind farms in the Sahara Desert could generate massive green energy, potentially reversing desertification and restoring the region’s ancient green paradise. It’s a fascinating premise. John Gaudet, PhD was a Fulbright Scholar who spent […]
BIG REACTORS, by Claire Lerner, released in audio
Lerner’s excellent parenting guide to raising highly sensitive kids, published by Bloomsbury Academic, is now available from Recorded Books Media in audio. Here is the RB Media landing page for Big Reactors, https://rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/9798318535406/,
HOW TO COPE: An Ancient Guide to Enduring Hardship, Boethius, Philip Freeman Editor & Translator
A vivid and accessible new translation of essential selections from Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy—a moving classic about facing life’s worst events with courage and hope–HOW TO COPE: An Ancient Guide to Enduring Hardship, Boethius, Philip Freeman Editor (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers, Princeton University Press, September 2025) What do you do when your life has fallen […]
MARCO POLO AND THE SILK ROAD, Philip Freeman
Chair of Humanities at Pepperdine University and author of ALEXANDER THE GREAT and JULIUS CAESAR Philip Freeman’s biography of Marco Polo, whose journey along thousands of miles of the Silk Road was chronicled in his own Travels and other medieval sources, from his boyhood in Venice to his trek across Asia to China as a teenager, his years and […]
THANK YOU FOR REMEMBERING, Emily Harding
A woman with amnesia wakes up a year after a terrible accident to discover that her life has irrevocably changed. She teams up with a charming neighbor to put the pieces of her life back together. (Gallery, World rights, Summer 2026).
FOLLOWING NATURE’S LEAD: Ancient Ways of Living in a Dying World, Mark D. Usher
In the spirit of E. F. Schumacher’s Small Is Beautiful, a dazzling and revelatory exploration of what ancient ideas and ways of living can teach us about creating a more sustainable world How should we think and live in a world facing environmental catastrophe? In this urgent, original, and wide-ranging book, classicist and farmer M. D. […]
Hays
Tommy Hays is an acclaimed Southern writer, whose fiction grows out of his emotional connections to places he’s lived and known—Greenville, South Carolina; Asheville, North Carolina; and Atlanta. His novel, The Marriage Bed, was published by Blair in March 2026. His prior novels are The Pleasure Was Mine (St. Martin’s Press 2005), In the Family […]
THE TIN TICKET, Deborah J. Swiss
New in Audio! From Tantor, the story of the convict women who built a continent. Historian Deborah J. Swiss tells the heartbreaking, horrifying, and ultimately triumphant story of the women exiled from the British Isles and forced into slavery and savagery—who created the most liberated society of their time. “A moving and fascinating story.”—Adam Hochschild, author […]
New in audio!
NEWBORN 101: Secrets from Expert Nurses on Preparing and Caring for Your Baby at Home, Carole Arsenault’s excellent award-winning guide from The Experiment is now available in audio (Echo Point). A new edition of the book and audio will be released in 2025, but in the meantime, this is the perfect gift for new parents, […]