Memory Lands

A Most Anticipated Book of 2026 Transfer Orbit CrimeReads The Bookseller A Memory Called Empire meets Children of Time in this Arabfuturist debut set on a generation ship on the brink of revolution as its crew begin to ask why they should toil for a people, and an empire, none of them...

Longlisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction A New York Times Most Anticipated Book "Henry Goodman is an excellent narrator, in particular due to his ability to give unique voices to figures ranging from Theodore Herzl to Basshe." — AudioFile This dazzling, innovative family...

The first novel by Anthony Doerr, the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See, one of the most beautiful, wise, and compelling debuts of recent times. David Winkler begins life...

Callie Bates’s debut novel, The Waking Land, announced the arrival of a brilliant new talent in epic fantasy. Now, with The Memory of Fire, Bates expertly deepens her tale, spinning glittering threads of magic and intrigue into a vibrant tapestry of adventure, betrayal, mystery, and romance...

A history of modern South Asia told through five partitions that reshaped it. As recently as 1928, a vast swathe of Asia--India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal, Bhutan, Yemen, Oman, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait--were bound together under a single imperial banner, an entity known...

A profound and searching exploration of the herbs, foodways, and land-based medicines of Lebanon and Canaan—a deep invitation to remember and reconnect to our roots amid displacement and in diaspora. Herbalist and author Layla K. Feghali shares a nuanced and layered cultural history of the...

“An American classic.” —The New Yorker In An Hour Before Daylight, Jimmy Carter, bestselling author of Living Faith and Sources of Strength, recreates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm before the civil rights movement forever changed it and the country. Carter writes about the...

Elle Takra is a princess, the last heir to the Takra throne in a far-off place known as the Second Land. Having grown up in the First Land, Elle doesn’t know she’s a princess. All she does know is that she’s in love with a man named Simon and she intends to make Simon her husband, whether he agrees or not! Elle’s best friend, Sasha, does know the truth—a truth she’s been keeping from Elle for the entirety of their friendship. Sasha isn’t the twenty-two-year-old she pretends to be. Instead, she’s an eighty-four-year-old elf who acts as Elle’s protector and has from the ...

SOULMATE REGISTRY — CASE FILE #10 Three wolves. Three women who've forgotten they have them. Three mate bonds that can't ignite until the wolves remember. The Fairy Godmother Rosalind would like you to know: this is not her fault. Magrita crashed a heritage steam locomotive into a station platform while fleeing a centipede. She didn't expect the furious Alpha with golden eyes to be her fated mate—or for the wine fraud she's investigating to be the least buried secret in the valley. Sable was cleaning windows on the forty-fifth floor when her mother's pendant fell through an Alpha CEO's ...

Some places do not announce themselves. They wait. And they watch. When a man returns to the rural town he fled as a child, he expects memory, not reckoning. But the woods beyond the old boundary have not forgotten him—or the bargains quietly made to keep the town safe. As unsettling events ripple through the community, long-buried truths begin to surface: a bridge no one crosses anymore, warnings passed down without explanation, and a presence in the forest that does not hunt—but witnesses. When the land itself begins to stir, one family is forced to confront a legacy of silence, ...

The child of South-Asian migrants, Kazim Ali was born in London, lived as a child in the cities and small towns of Manitoba, and made a life in the United States. As a man passing through disparate homes, he has never felt he belonged to a place. And yet, one day, he finds himself thinking of Jenpeg, a community thrown up around the building of a hydroelectric dam on the Nelson River, where he once lived for several years as a child. Does the town still exist, he wonders? Is the dam still operational?

The Gentle Art of Stamp Collecting A Relaxing and Rewarding Hobby for Retirees, Seniors, and Thoughtful Beginners Step into a world of history, beauty, and quiet joy—one tiny piece of paper at a time. The Gentle Art of Stamp Collecting invites you to rediscover the timeless pleasure of a hobby that has captivated generations. Whether you’re dusting off an old album, starting fresh in retirement, or simply curious about the stories stamps can tell, this book is your friendly and inspiring guide. Inside, you’ll explore: The fascinating history behind the world’s most iconic stamps How...

In the 1930s, Chief William Berens shared with anthropologist A. Irving Hallowell a remarkable history of his life, as well as many personal and dream experiences that held special significance for him. Most of this material has never been published. Because the elderly chief wanted his visitor to understand the Ojibwe world, and because Hallowell was deeply interested in his subject matter and was such a good listener, Berens freely related his dreams and other stories about encounters with powerful beings.

When Nations Are Built On Graves Foundations matter. Some are built on loss that never fades. When Nations Are Built On Graves A History of Expansion, Removal, and Silence Modern nations often describe their origins through stories of exploration, settlement, and progress. These narratives emphasize courage and achievement while leaving unexamined the conditions that made expansion possible. What is omitted is often as important as what is remembered. When Nations Are Built On Graves examines a recurring pattern in the formation of states: land is claimed before law is established, ...

Some Dreams Don’t Let Go Some dreams leave more behind than images. They leave a feeling that follows you into the day. Even when you cannot remember what the dream was about, you carry the sense that it mattered, and that it has not finished speaking yet. Many people dismiss these dreams because they are hard to explain. Others try to understand them and give up when the interpretations feel generic or wrong. Meanwhile, the same emotional residue lingers, shaping mood, focus, and creative energy in subtle but persistent ways. Dreams like these are not random. They are often connected to ...

The White Lady Road Book Two of The Namib Frontiers Series After exposing a criminal line hidden beneath the silence of Etosha, Simon Shield and Elbereth are drawn into an even older and more dangerous struggle in Namibia’s north-west. A younger retired lawyer, John Young, asks for help from his discreet luxury camp in the koppies beyond the ordinary tourist roads. A guide has disappeared. Men with ministry language and contractor boots are taking an interest in old tracks they once ignored. And the route beneath Brandberg — the road most people know only through the legend of the White...

Finale der New-Adult-Dilogie von Own-Voice-Autorin Basma Hallak mit viel Humor und noch mehr Gefühl! Nach ihrer Flucht aus Island ist Kalima wieder in Berlin und will nur eins – vergessen. Völlig egal ob Vallarheiði, das sich langsam zu ihrem Zuhause entwickelte, ihr Fotolabor, in dem sie zum ersten Mal neue Inspiration geschöpft hat oder Nói, ihre große Liebe, mit dem sie dabei war, sich ein Leben aufzubauen. Und am allermeisten: die Geschehnisse im Einkaufszentrum.

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE A TIMES & SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF THE CONVERSATION'S 5 BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS OF 2024 'A truly radical book; radical in subject, radical in form. For the most tragic reasons, it...

The Wind at Major Creek Echoes of the Columbia Gorge If you stand long enough in the Columbia River Gorge, you will hear it—the wind moving through the basalt, carrying something older than memory. This is not just a story about a place. It is a story about what a place remembers. At the confluence of Major Creek and the Columbia River lies a stretch of land shaped by centuries of life, labor, and loss. Long before the arrival of settlers, the Klickitat people stood watch over the river, reading the wind and the water as one reads a living language. Their presence was quiet, steady, and ...

A husband believes his wife is an imposter. A man's sudden, intense Catholic piety provokes his wife. A mother and daughter struggle to come to terms with the disease that intensifies an already dependent relationship. At their root, these existential dilemmas grow out of long-established patterns of behaviour that bind together patients and caregivers. Travellers to Unimaginable Lands explores the complex and profound psychology of caregiving, illuminating how the healthy brain's biases and intuitions make caring for people with dementia disorders so profoundly and inherently difficult.