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Some days, her sweet, charismatic boy seems just fine; others, he struggles to answer simple questions. A long-awaited appointment with a geneticist ultimately reveals nothing about what’s causing Tophs’s drops in blood sugar, his processing delays—but it does reveal something unexpected about Taylor’s own health. What if her son’s challenges have saved her life?

Essence, A Most Anticipated Title of the Year | An Electric Literature Most Anticipated Title of the Year | The Millions, A Most Anticipated Book of the Year | Indie Next 2022 Pick

Seventeen-year-old Leah MacKenzie is heartless. An artificial heart in a backpack is keeping her alive. However, this route only offers her a few years. And with her rare blood type, a transplant isn't likely. Living like you are dying isn't all it's cracked up to be. But when a heart becomes available, she's given a second chance at life. Except Leah discovers who the donor was -- a boy from her school -- and they're saying he killed himself. Plagued with dreams since the transplant, she realizes she may hold the clues to what really happened. Matt refused to believe his twin killed himself. When Leah seeks him out, he learns they are both having similar dreams and he's certain it means something. While unraveling the secrets of his brother's final moments, Leah and Matt find each other, and a love they are terrified to lose. But life and even new hearts don't come with guarantees. Who knew living, took more courage than dying?

"This Heart of Mine is one of those YA books that I believe will resonate with teens and adults alike." - Goodreads

When Rosie and Penn and their four boys welcome the newest member of their family, no one is surprised it’s another baby boy. But Claude is not like his brothers. One day he puts on a dress and refuses to take it off. He wants to bring a purse to kindergarten. He wants hair long enough to sit on. When he grows up, Claude says, he wants to be a girl. Rosie and Penn aren’t panicked at first. Kids go through phases, after all, and make-believe is fun. But soon the entire family is keeping Claude’s secret. Until one day it explodes.  

"Every once in a while, I read a book that opens my eyes in a way I never expected.” ―Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club pick)

The story follows Annie, who is 37 weeks pregnant and trapped in an IKEA when a massive earthquake hits. With no phone or car, she must walk across the devastated city to find her husband, reflecting on her life and the human condition along the way.

Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence in Fiction | A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice | A USA TODAY Bestseller | A Best Book of 2025 for Vogue | Named one of Time’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 | An NPR favorite fiction read of 2025

In Together, the former Surgeon General addresses the overlooked epidemic of loneliness as the underpinning to the current crisis in mental wellness and offers solutions to create connection and stresses the importance of community to counteract the forces driving us to depression and isolation.

The New York Times Bestseller

While on tour in Afghanistan, United States Army Staff Sergeant Travis Mills was caught in an IED blast days before his twenty-fifth birthday. He survived, but at a cost, becoming one of only five soldiers from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to survive a quadruple amputation. Suddenly, Travis faced a future drastically different from the one he had imagined for himself. Tough as They Come is the story of his remarkable recovery and an inspirational account of willpower and endurance.

From what to pack to traveler's diarrhea to skin issues, you will be introduced to and advised on a wide range of possible, unfortunate occurrences that could affect not only how pleasant your trip is but also how well you recover from unexpected medical events. Additionally, this guide provides preventative measures and some quick first aid tips that will hopefully help you avoid unforeseen health hazards. Travel well!

This novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they’ll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who’s never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school’s golden boy, whose world is rocked when his baby sister is born hearing; and February, the hearing headmistress, a CODA (child of deaf adult(s)) who is fighting to keep her school open and her marriage intact, but might not be able to do both. As a series of crises both personal and political threaten to unravel each of them, Charlie, Austin, and February find their lives inextricable from one another—and changed forever.

A 2022 Reese’s Book Club pick | New York Times best seller | 2023 American Library Association Alex Award Winner

In this work of extensive research, Jasmine Brown offers a rich perspective, penning the long-erased stories of nine pioneering black women physicians beginning in 1860, when a black woman first entered medical school. Brown tells the stories of these doctors from the perspective of a black woman in medicine. Her journey as a medical student already has parallels to those of black women who entered medicine generations before her. What she uncovers about these women’s struggles, their need to work twice as hard and be twice as good, and their ultimate success serves as instruction and inspiration for new generations considering a career in medicine or science.

In Ultra-Processed People, Chris van Tulleken argues that the ultra-processing of foods is the primary reason that today’s food intake results in many health problems, such as metabolic dysfunction and most chronic diseases. In a fast-paced and eye-opening narrative he explores the origins, science, and economics of ultra-processed foods to reveal its catastrophic impact on our bodies and the planet. Tulleken proposes real solutions for doctors, for policy makers, and for all of us who have to eat.