A young woman with a disputed claim to a ruling house is summoned to the capital to contend for a throne and to answer dangerous questions about her lineage.

An investigative nonfiction account tracing the life of Henrietta Lacks and the origin of the HeLa cell line, focusing on how her cells were taken, used in scientific research, and the ethical, racial, and personal consequences for her family.

Michelle Alexander argues that mass incarceration in the United States operates as a contemporary racial caste system—what she terms the "New Jim Crow."

An author convalescing with a chronic illness observes and cares for a wild snail that becomes a daily companion. The book records close, patient attention to the snail’s behavior and anatomy while using that relationship to reflect on bodily experience, time, and recovery.

A narrative history of the Great Migration, tracing the movement of Black Americans out of the U.S. South into northern, midwestern, and western cities across much of the twentieth century.