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For National Aviation Day on August 19th, we are sharing books about aviation—and how its history has led to important developments in our present day.

This book explores how Indigenous currencies—including wampum and dentalium shells, beads, and the cryptocurrency MazaCoin—have long constituted a form of resistance to settler colonialism.   “…[C]ryptocurrency, and digital currency broadly, continue creating shifting circuits of transactional culture. A sort of code rush is taking place, in which various digital forms of currency prevail over conventionally

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In honor of International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, which takes place on August 9th, we are sharing a book list that includes history, stories, and non-fiction about various Indigenous cultures. Find a full collection of titles here.

Penguin Random House Education is proud to celebrate Hispanic & Latine Heritage Month, which runs annually from September 15th through October 15th. We are highlighting the works of our authors from the Hispanic and Latine community. Find a full collection of titles here.

Contributed by Brenda Wineapple, author of Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation, which relates how the dramatic story of the 1925 Scopes trial exposed profound divisions in America that still resonate today—divisions over the meaning of freedom, religion, education, censorship, and civil liberties in a democracy.  Trials are inherently

Contributed by Prachi Gupta, author of They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us, in which she articulates the dissonance, shame, and isolation of being upheld as an American success story while privately navigating traumas invisible to the outside world.  By chronicling the specific experiences of my Indian American family, They Called Us

Penguin Random House proudly contributed to the American Regions Mathematics League (ARML) this year by donating book prizes to outstanding student participants. Students from Canada, China and South Korea competed in the 2025 ARML competition, which celebrated the league’s 50th year. The books donated are: Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else by Jordan Ellenberg, How

The bestselling author of The World Without Us returns with a book ten years in the making: a study of what it means to be a human on the front lines of our planet’s existential crisis. Hope Dies Last fills a crucial gap in the global conversation: Having reached a point of no return in

At the end of summer 2017, Anna Funder found herself at a moment of peak overload. Family obligations and household responsibilities were crushing her soul and taking her away from her writing deadlines. She needed help, and George Orwell came to her rescue. “I’ve always loved Orwell,” Funder writes, “his self-deprecating humour, his laser vision

In this poignant retelling of The Great Gatsby, set amongst L.A.’s Black elite, a young veteran finds his way post-war, pulled into a new world of tantalizing possibilities—and explosive tensions.   Chapter 1 “Wake up, I said it’s the end of the line.” My eyes fly open, my hand automatically reaching for my weapon. But instead of

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