Biography & Memoir
Origin Story: The Trials of Charles Darwin
Paperback
A lively account of how Darwin’s work on natural selection transformed science and society, and an investigation into the mysterious illness that plagued its author
The Many Passions of Michael Hardwick: Sex and the Supreme Court in the Age of AIDS
Hardback
The little-known story of the man who sparked a groundswell of gay activism with a wrongly decided Supreme Court decision
Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food
Paperback
A spirited new history of Chinese food told through an account of the remarkable life of Fu Pei-mei, the woman who brought Chinese cooking to the world
The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Hardback
The riveting saga of the Seabrooks of New Jersey, by one of The New Yorker’s most acclaimed storytellers
The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin
Hardback
An illuminating portrait of a lost thinker, German-Jewish sexologist and activist Magnus Hirschfeld