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Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe is a New York Times bestseller in which psychic medium Laura Lynne Jackson presents a guidebook designed to help readers recognize and interpret messages from loved ones and spirit guides on what she calls the Other Side — a work that blends personal memoir with spiritual instruction and is aimed squarely at those navigating grief, loss, or a search for deeper meaning.
Mar 27, 2026
Michael Neiman's Hello My Name is Sharkbait chronicles his 2,192-mile thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine — a journey through blizzards, dehydration, laughter, and doubt that doubles as an unexpected story of friendship and a father-son bond quietly transformed by the miles.
Mar 24, 2026
Ed Yong's An Immense World is a work of narrative nonfiction that explores the radically different ways animals perceive the world through their senses — from the magnetic navigation of sea turtles to the electrical communications of river fish — organised around the concept of the Umwelt, the unique sensory bubble each creature inhabits. Originally published in 2022 and reissued by Random House Trade Paperbacks in 2023, the book won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and the Royal Society Science Book Prize, was named one of The New York Times's ten best books of 2022, and appeared on Barack Obama's list of favourite books of the year. Critics called it "thrilling," critics called it "dazzling," and Oprah Daily named it "one of this year's finest works of narrative nonfiction." It stands as one of the most celebrated popular-science books of recent years.
Mar 22, 2026
The Kunitsa Co. Travel Journal is a guided, hardcover notebook designed for adult travelers who want a single, structured place to plan upcoming trips and preserve memories from past ones — earning a 4.7-out-of-5-star rating from 144 customer reviews and standing as a thoughtfully organized keepsake gift.
Mar 16, 2026
When in ROAM: A Comedy Travel Adventure Memoir is a self-deprecating, fast-paced account of a California woman's accidental years-long solo journey through Africa, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand in the mid-1990s — a debut that turns a cascade of travel disasters into genuinely entertaining storytelling.
Mar 13, 2026
Ryan Benz's Wander: A Memoir of Letting Go is a B.R.A.G. Medallion Award-winning memoir in which Benz chronicles his decision to abandon a hollow but outwardly successful life and walk over two thousand miles along the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. It is a searching account of physical endurance and self-discovery, written for readers who feel the pull of a different, more deliberate way of living.
Mar 26, 2026
Kevin Fedarko's A Walk in the Park is a richly layered adventure memoir chronicling a 750-mile end-to-end traverse of the Grand Canyon — an undertaking that fewer than two dozen people had ever completed — attempted by Fedarko and National Geographic photographer Pete McBride with, by their own admission, a startling lack of preparation. Winner of the 2024 National Outdoor Book Award in Outdoor Literature and the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, the book weaves harrowing physical ordeal with canyon geology, Native American history, and environmental pressures bearing down on one of America's most iconic landscapes.
Mar 25, 2026
First published by Frederick A. Stokes & Co. In 1934 and reissued by Reading Essentials in a Kindle edition, Maurice Walsh's The Road to Nowhere is a Gaelic-flavored adventure romance that earned immediate praise from Kirkus Reviews for its "enchanting glamorous romance" and "high adventure, sheer charm" — making it a solid rediscovery for readers drawn to classic Irish fiction.
Mar 15, 2026
Ellen Barone's debut memoir chronicles the decade-long nomadic journey she and her husband Hank embarked on after their rented house sold unexpectedly in 2011 — a planned one-year experiment through four countries that quietly expanded into a way of life spanning multiple continents. Published in 2023 by Abhuta, the memoir is a candid, open-hearted account of long-stay travel, shifting notions of home, and the personal transformation that comes from choosing impermanence over rootedness.
Mar 30, 2026
Inga Aksamit's trail journal chronicles her trek along the John Muir Trail with her husband, capturing the raw joy, physical strain, and camaraderie of more than three weeks in California's High Sierra — a candid, practical read designed for aspiring JMT hikers, Sierra veterans, and armchair adventurers alike.
Mar 27, 2026
Project Hail Mary is Andy Weir's hard science fiction novel and a #1 New York Times bestseller that follows Ryland Grace — a junior high school science teacher with a PhD in molecular biology — who wakes aboard a spacecraft with no memory, two dead crewmates, and sole responsibility for saving humanity from extinction. The novel earned a Hugo Award for Best Novel finalist nod, won the 2022 Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year (read by Ray Porter), and has spent 47 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list as of May 2026. Kirkus Reviews awarded it a starred review, calling it "nothing short of a science fiction masterwork," and the novel has since been adapted into a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling.
Mar 30, 2026
The Correspondent, published by Leopold Classic Library in 2016, is a restored reprint of a historical work by nineteenth-century American author James Wood Davidson — a title that should not be confused with the several contemporary novels sharing its name. The Leopold Classic Library edition makes a long-out-of-print text newly accessible in paperback form, though readers seeking a modern epistolary novel will find themselves in very different literary territory here.
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