Soon to be a major film, produced by Steven Spielberg and J. J. Abrams.This is the story of Doaa, an ordinary girl from a village in Syria, who in 2015 became one of five hundred people crammed on to a fishing boat setting sail for Europe. The boat was deliberately capsized, and of those five hundred people, eleven survived; they were rescued four days after the boat sank. Doaa was one of them - her fiancé Bassem, with whom she had fled, was not; he drowned in fron...

The gripping story of a young woman who fled civil war in Syria and endured a harrowing journey across the Mediterranean for a chance of a better life.Adrift in a frigid sea, no land in sight, just debris from the ship's wreckage and floating corpses all around, nineteen-year-old Doaa Al Zamel stays afloat on a small inflatable ring and clutches two little girls—barely toddlers—to her body. The children had been thrust into Doaa's arms by their drowning relatives, a...

The extraordinary true story of one teen refugee's quest to find a new life—now adapted for young readers.A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea tells the story of Doaa Al-Zamel, a Syrian girl whose life was upended in 2011 by her country's brutal civil war. She and her family escape to Egypt, but life quickly became dangerous for Syrians in that country.Doaa and her fiancé decided to flee to Europe to seek safety and an education, but four days after se...

The inspiring, previously untold tale of survival, defiance, heroism, and an unlikely hero – the Jewish civil engineer and musician who led the extraordinarily successful guerilla war to liberate Ukraine from Nazi occupation during World War II. Written by the National Jewish Book Award-winning author of Violins of Hope, this is a riveting window into a little-known aspect of WWII for history buffs, fans of the movie Defiance starring Daniel Craig, and readers of ...

WASHINGTON POST BEST COOKBOOKS OF 2025NPR BOOKS WE LOVE 2025EPICURIOUS STANDOUT COOKBOOK FOR FALL 2025READWORTHY BEST NEW COOKBOOKS 2025From beloved James Beard Award–winning and New York Times bestselling author Dorie Greenspan—a vibrantly illustrated collection of recipes for simple yet most-memorable cakesOver the years, Dorie has created thousands of excellent recipes. And out of ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAAH STONE BOOK AWARDA new history of US education through the nineteenth century that rigorously accounts for Black, Native, and white experiences; a story that exposes the idea of American education as “the great equalizer” to not only be a lie, but also a myth that reproduces past harms.Education is the epicenter of every community in the United States. Indeed, few institutions are as pivotal in shaping our lives and ...

A moving memoir about one mother's unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.A People Book of the WeekA Kirkus Best Nonfiction of the Year"A modern-day Sophie's Choice , this memoir about a mother's love for her child and country...

An award-winning journalist reveals the story behind the true crime of a mother's murder of her daughter in Canada's Nova Scotia region.On January twenty-nine, 2008, just days after a bitter winter storm, Nova Scotians watched with breaking hearts as a young mother in the small town of Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, pleaded on the supper-hour news for help finding her missing twelve-year-old daughter. For thirteen days, the country held its breath as the search for Kari...

A front-of-the-house Kitchen Confidential from a career maître d’hotel who manned the front of the room in New York City's hottest and most in-demand restaurants.From the glamorous to the entitled, from royalty to the financially ruined, everyone who wanted to be seen—or just to gawk—at the hottest restaurants in New York City came to places Michael Cecchi-Azzolina helped run. His phone number was passed around among those who wanted to curry favor, during...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE 2024A WALL STREET JOURNAL BOOK OF THE YEARNATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER'Beautiful, sober and affecting - a testament to remembrance and friendship' - DALIA SOFER'A momentous historic retrieval and work of literary art' - PHILLIP LOPATENearly a ...

A splendid and luminous celebration of one of nature’s most perfect and mysterious creatures—the hawk—from the New York Times bestselling author of the “astoundingly beautiful” (NPR) The Soul of an Octopus.When Sy Montgomery went to spend a day at falconer Nancy Cowan’s farm, home to a dozen magnificent birds of prey, it was the start of a deep love affair. Nancy allowed her to work with Jazz, a feisty, four-year-old, female Harris’s hawk with a w...

A tour of clocks throughout the centuries—from the sandglass to the telomere—to reveal the physical, biological, and social nature of time.Named one of Book Riot 's Six Great Nonfiction Books about TimeWhat is time? This question has fascinated philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists for thousands of years. Why does time seem to speed up with age? What is its connection with...