A compact English-set tale shaped by a disappearance and the effort to reconstruct what happened. The narrative assembles documents, testimony, and close third-person focus to press on how absence reshapes memory, suspicion, and local rumor.

A firsthand account of encounters with octopuses that uses field observation and scientific context to investigate octopus behavior and signs of consciousness. The book links specific animal interactions to accessible explanations from marine biology to consider how octopuses think, sense, and relate to humans.

Set in the 1920s, the novel follows a young woman whose life becomes entangled with Maya gods and a mythic journey. A relationship with a divinity prompts a quest and confrontations with death and fate, folding Mexican fable elements into a period social world.

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.

A literary fantasy that situates several women’s lives inside a shared historical and cultural landscape, using personal narratives and communal memory to trace how past events shape identity and responsibility.

A first-person memoir by Chanel Miller recounting her sexual assault at Stanford in 2015 and the consequences that followed, including the legal case People v. Turner. The book traces the personal aftermath, public attention, and interactions with the justice system as the author reclaims voice and identity.

A journalist-investigator pursues the murky death and legacy of a notorious film director whose work inspired a devoted, secretive subculture.

Set in a near-future Nigeria after an alien presence appears, the novel follows a Nigerian agent who can access a shared alien-linked information network through nervous-system-affecting fungal growths.

Set across decades around an attempted assassination of a major reggae figure, the novel tracks how that act ripples through Kingston and New York over years of changing politics, gangs, and drug economies.