**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • “A glorious sweep of a novel” (Ann Patchett) that weaves the intimate lives of two midwestern families across generations, from World War II to the late twentieth century.“Mesmerizing.”—People**“Captivating.”—The New York Times Book Review“A once-in-a-decade novel . . . I fell in love with these characters.”—Jenna Bush Hager

THE BIG-HEARTED BESTSELLING PHENOMENON THAT READERS ARE CALLING THEIR BOOK OF THE YEARA New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2025A Read With Jenna Book Club Pick September 2025One town. Two families. A secret that changes everything.'Poignant, powerful' Independent'Omniscient, sweeping, almost defiantly sentimental' New Yor...

Jack is awakened in the middle of the night by the sound of his refrigerator's open door alarm. Or so he thinks...

THE BASEBALL DIET BOOK—Where the magic of America's pastime meets the wonder of everyday lifeStep up to the plate with Patrick Ryan's collection of nine unforgettable tales where the extraordinary hides in the ordinary corners of America's favorite game. From the 400-pound pitcher who masters the mysterious "gyroball" to find both baseball glory and love, to a magical scorebook that can change the outcome of games, these stories celebrate the quirky, heartfelt conn...

Preservation and Protest proposes a novel taxonomy of four paradigms of nonhuman theological ethics by exploring the intersection of tensions between value terms and teleological terms. These tensions arise out of the theological loci of cosmology, anthropology, and eschatology. The individual paradigms of the taxonomy are critically elucidated through the work of Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Berry, Dumitru Stăniloae, and Jürgen Moltmann and Andrew Linzey. McLaughlin systematically develops the ...

For readers of Tom Perrotta and Lorrie Moore, these nine unforgettable stories, all set in and around Cape Canaveral, showcase Patrick Ryan’s masterly understanding of regret and hope, relationships and family, and the universal longing for love.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYSt. Louis Post Dispatch • Refinery 29 • Electric LiteratureThe Dream Life of Astronauts balances heartbreak with w...

The first book from the renowned philosopher investigates the flip side of economic self-interest: the interest of the greater good.Best known for his revolutionary free-market economics treatise The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith was first and foremost a moral philosopher. In his classic work The Theory of Moral Sentiments, he advanced ideas about conscience, moral judgment, and virtue that have taken on renewed importance in business and politics...

Lovers know that love is both vast and intense. This would seem to make it resistant to philosophical or rational analysis. Yet love's vastness and intensity are what carry it into all spheres of our lives--ethical, political, spiritual, physical. As a result, considerations of what it means to love and to be loved, and what is worth loving and worth being, are inextricable from our most deeply-held commitments in ethics, politics, religion, and metaphysics. Love is impossible then for phi...

Are you carrying everyone else while your own healing goes undone? Are you carrying the silent ache of being misunderstood by the ones you love the most? Have you longed for the freedom to simply be, rather than a version of yourself shaped by others' demands? Are you ready to live fully, unapologetically, and finally with clarity?In his debut memoir, UNMASKED: A Poetic Memoir through Trauma, Identity, and the Sacred Work of Healing, Ryan Patrick Parker invites readers into a story...

This book shows connections between oral story listening and unique, enduring educational effects in and outside of the classroom. Using scientific studies and interviews, as well as personal observations from more than thirty years in schools and libraries, the authors examine learning outcomes from frequent story listening. Throughout the book, Schatt and Ryan illustrate that experiencing stories told entirely from memory transforms individuals and builds community, affecting areas such ...

In the 1950s, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters empowered poor immigrants who had grown up in the crowded blocks of the central city to move upward and outward to comfortable suburbs. It delivered unprecedented benefits to workers—especially to those in retail, services, and light manufacturing—locking in hourly pay that bought the patio furniture sets, the pontoon boats, and the station wagons that defined the consumer culture of the decade. Yet suburban comfort came with strict,...

Brayden, at twenty five, leaves his life in Los Angeles to surf and build a lonelier existence at the edge of a jungle in Mexico - but when he meets Isla, a local girl, a love begins that might save him from the tragedy awaiting him in the ocean. Brayden turns his back on a girl, a job, and a life. He's going deep into Mainland Mexico to test himself in some of the largest waves in the world. But once there Brayden seems to be testing more than his courage in Oaxaca, in the ocean, in the h...