From America’s favorite government teacher, a “fascinating and fun” (Adam Grant) portrait of twelve ordinary Americans whose courage formed the character of our country. In The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn’t make it into the textbooks. Not the presidents, but the telephone operators. Not

You can search for books across this discipline through our course lists, which cover Film History, Introduction to Film Studies, Analysis and Criticism, Production, and Special Topics. Film History Introduction to Film Production Special Topics

The Booker Prize, one of the leading literary awards in the English-speaking world, has brought recognition to outstanding fiction for over five decades. The prize has rewarded and celebrated world-class talent for over 55 years, shaping the canon of 20th and 21st century literature. This year’s selection, which was chosen from 163 submissions, celebrates the

Should the Waters Take Us is an epic debut novel that follows one family across four centuries, from France to Acadia to the bayous of Southern Louisiana—a poignant examination of belonging, place, and how individual acts of moral compromise contribute to cycles of injustice and destruction.   PELERIN PARISH, LOUISIANA 2010 WILFORD “BOY” BROUSSARD If

What explains those rare families that boast multiple siblings who achieve extraordinary success? An award-winning New York Times journalist weaves story with science to explore the circumstances that set those families apart.   One The Groffs Memorial Day, the unofficial start of summer, is still sometimes cool in Cooperstown, a village in upstate New York where snow

From award-winning journalist and author John A. Jenkins comes a revolutionary exploration of the summer before Watergate—a parallel world of a half-century ago when America faced events and crises strikingly similar to those of today—told through the lives and words of those who lived it.   FIVE MONTHS THAT CHANGED AMERICA By John A. Jenkins

Sasha Bonét grew up in 1990s Houston, worlds removed from the Louisiana cotton plantation that raised her grandmother, Betty Jean, and the Texas bayous that shaped Sasha’s mother, Connie. And though each generation did better, materially, than the last, all of them carried the complex legacy of Black American motherhood with its origins in slavery. All of them

Drawing on more than a decade of experience building the global Make Big Talk movement, Kalina Silverman examines how meaningful conversation can help address loneliness, strengthen relationships, and foster a greater sense of belonging. Combining research, personal stories, and practical conversation prompts, Big Talk offers an accessible framework for cultivating empathy, trust, and authentic connection

Shakespeare may have breathed the air of sixteenth-century England, but today, all the world is his stage. Every year, millions of people, from Bogotá to Borneo, read Hamlet for the first time, thanks to the tireless work of translators. Drawing on the work of the very best of them, Hahn dives into the infinitesimally complicated ways

Reading is fundamental to imagination and identity. At its best, it entertains, but it also challenges, provokes, and redefines what we think we know of ourselves and the world. That’s the mission behind Outsider Editions, a new reissue series from Doubleday. We’re reviving extraordinary books—novels, story collections, memoirs, essays, histories—that were overlooked or forgotten but