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Celebrating Black History Month in 2025
Let’s honor the remarkable Black Americans throughout history with our favorite books. From the 19th century to the Civil Rights Movement to present day, our reading list for...

Featured Excerpt: A Matter of Complexion by Tess Chakkalakal
Leaving Fayetteville Charles W. Chesnutt. (Public domain, Wikimedia Images.) On October 7, 1880, The Raleigh Signal, a Republican newspaper published by the Republican State...

Featured Excerpt: Realm of Ice and Sky
View of Smeerenberg, Spitzbergen, Norway. A photomechanical print taken between 1890 and 1900. Public Domain. Realm of Ice and Sky by two-time National Outdoor Book Award-winning...

Featured Excerpt: A Rage to Conquer
The Battle of Actium from The Story of Caesar and Cleopatra by Justus van Egmont. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. In A Rage to Conquer, award-winning author Michael Walsh brings...

Adventure Research at the Top of the World
Author Buddy Levy shares his chilly experience in Ny Ålesund, Norway, where he gathered research materials for his book, Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History’s...

Featured Excerpt: The JFK Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch
by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch Belmont, New HampshireSeptember 1960 New York Daily News Archive/New York Daily News via Getty Images Richard Pavlick of Belmont, New Hampshire,...

Introduction to Eliot Stein’s Custodians of Wonder
In Custodians of Wonder, Eliot Stein takes a vivid look at 10 astonishing people who are maintaining some of the world’s oldest and rarest cultural traditions. Read on for an...