March 2026 list by Donalee Jacobs |
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All about Allergies
by MD Rubin, Zachary
From viral social media sensation Dr. Zachary Rubin, an in-depth look at both common and surprising allergies, spotlighting patient stories, the history and science behind allergies, common myths, treatment options, and more.
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American Struggle
by Jon Meacham
The bestselling author of The Soul of America unites centuries of essential American voices to understand our national debates and divisions from 1619 to the present, with his signature commentary on the consequential speeches, letters, and essays that led us to this moment.
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The Balancing Act
by Nedra Glover Tawwab
Every relationship is a balancing act. If we give too much, we lose ourselves. If we hold back too much, we become isolated and unable to get our needs met. Achieving the right balance is how we find connection, authenticity, and joy. With her signature blend of clarity and compassion, therapist Nedra Glover Tawwab offers a roadmap for finding this balance, demystifying: the difference between setting boundaries and putting up walls avoidant and anxious attachment styles, hyper-independence, and the myth of the self-made individual.
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Big Talk
by Kalina Silverman
What began as one young woman's mission to fight loneliness has since grown into a global movement, featured in major media and used in schools, workplaces, governments, and communities around the world. In this book, Silverman distills more than a decade of insights from making Big Talk into easy-to-apply questions, prompts, and techniques that will help you overcome social anxiety and start more meaningful conversation, and develop community.
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Black Bear
by Trina Moyles
As a child roaming the shores of the Peace in the footsteps of her older brother, Brendan, Trina understood bears to be always present but mostly hidden and worthy of respect. Growing up during the oil boom of the 1990s, the threats in the siblings' hard-drinking resource town were more human, dividing them from each other. When Trina was assigned to a fire tower lookout in a wildlife corridor, bears were alarmingly visible and plentiful. Over four summers, she moves beyond fear and observes the essence of the black bear. At the same time, Trina searches for common ground with Brendan. Impassioned and eloquent, Black Bear captures the fragility of our relationships with human and nonhuman species alike.
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The Blood Countess
by Shelley Puhak
From the author of the national bestseller The Dark Queens, an incandescent work of true crime and feminist history about Elizabeth Bathory, the woman alleged to be the world's most prolific female serial killer.
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Cave Mountain
by Benjamin Hale
This story begins in 2001 on top of Cave Mountain in the Arkansas Ozarks. A six-year-old girl named Haley -- Benjamin Hale's cousin -- got lost on a mountain trail. Her disappearance -- and her account, after she was found, of the imaginary friend she met in the woods -- eventually became connected to another story that took place in the same wilderness more than twenty years earlier. Enriched by Benjamin Hale's own family history and the lore of the Arkansas Ozarks, Cave Mountain is a gripping story about nature and survival, religion and skepticism, and good and evil. At its center are two young girls, years apart, both in danger in the verdant wilds of northern Arkansas.
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Chasing Lewis's Monkeyflower
by Elizabeth Adelman
The two hundred-year saga of finding, losing, and finding the wild plants collected on America's first exploration west, the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Thomas Jefferson handpicked Meriwether Lewis to lead the expedition, gather notable specimens along the way, and then write the journals, with one volume to include science-worthy descriptions and classifications of the plants that Lewis collected and pressed to preserve. Not a botanist, Lewis needed help to write this part of the journals. Ambition, deceit, theft, wealth, debt, alcoholism, loss, suicide, serendipity, and stubborn persistence cross the plants' paths in Philadelphia, New York, and London.
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Devout
by David Archuleta
A raw and powerful coming-out story from the beloved American Idol finalist traces David Archuleta's journey from closeted Mormon teen to global pop star to openly queer man, revealing the hidden pressures of fame, the weight of religious expectations, and the courage it takes to live authentically.
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End of Days
by Chris Jennings
On August 21, 1992, shots rang out while federal agents were surveilling a cabin in Boundary County, Idaho as part of an operation to arrest Randy Weaver for failure to appear in court on a gun charge. When Weaver finally surrendered to the authorities, his wife, son, and dog lay dead, as did a US Marshal. Ever since, America has been trying to make sense of what happened on Ruby Ridge. Chris Jennings explains the significance of this siege by setting the story of the Weaver family within the long history of apocalyptic Christianity in the United States. The events at Ruby Ridge acted as an accelerant for this spreading worldview, and are essential to understanding the crisis that our nation confronts today.
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Every Moment Is a Life
by Book Author
Compiled by bestselling author susan abulhawa, an Arabic-English bilingual anthology of essays from eighteen young Palestinian writers trying to survive the genocide in Gaza. These essays are raw and real, capturing human moments -- buying bread, going to the bathroom, sharing a meal, drinking coffee -- all set against the backdrop of history's first livestreamed ethnic cleansing. With courage, anger, love, agony, and, impossibly hope, these achingly tender voices from Gaza will stay with us, captured in these pages, forever.
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The Glorians
by Terry Tempest Williams
In this time of political fragility, climate chaos, and seeking beauty wherever we can find its glimmer, Terry Tempest Williams introduces us to the Glorians. They are not distant deities, but the ordinary, often overlooked presences -- animal, plant, memory, moment -- that reveal our shared vulnerability and interconnectedness with the natural world. They remind us of the power of contact between species and the profound courage -- and awareness -- it will take to dream a more cohesive future into being. Wise and lyrical, The Glorians is a testament to the power of witness, a field guide to finding grace in the unexpected, and a moving invitation to engage with one another and our surroundings with renewed intention.
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Growing Up with Addiction
by Tian Dayton
In this urgently needed resource, Dr. Tian Dayton draws on decades of expertise to help adult children of addicts recover from family trauma, reconnect with themselves, and heal relational wounds. This book helps you explore the illness that shaped your family, understand the imprint it left on you, and set out on a path towards inner and relational recovery. Healing requires tuning into your nervous system, tracing your automatic reactions, and gently questioning the distorted beliefs and fear states your wounds left behind. This book empowers you to flourish in recovery, break the chain of intergenerational dysfunction, and create a compassionate and connected future for yourself and those you love.
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Heartland
by Keith O'Brien
In 1974, Larry Bird had dropped out of Indiana University and had returned home to French Lick, Indiana. In 1975, King and Hodges convinced Bird to leave French Lick and play basketball at Indiana State University. Then King and Hodges built a team of players around Bird who were castoffs and leftovers, ready to work. Four years later, in March 1979, this team put together one of the greatest seasons in American sports history. By the time it was over, more than 50 million people would watch the Indiana State Sycamores play in the NCAA finals against Magic Johnson and Michigan State. Drawing on interviews with players, coaches, and staffers, bestselling author and biographer Keith O'Brien offers a stirring account of the mighty Indiana State Sycamores.
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Hormone Havoc
by Amy Shah MD
Doctor, author, and influencer Amy Shah, MD, shares a nutritional, science-based protocol to minimize hormonal havoc, hot flashes, and night sweats and take on perimenopause and menopause with improved mood, energy, and health.
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I Told You So!
by Matt Kaplan
For two decades, Matt Kaplan has covered science for the Economist. He's seen breakthroughs often occur in spite of, rather than because of, the behavior of the research community, and how support can be withheld for those who don't conform or have the right connections. In entertaining prose, Kaplan reveals scientific cases past and present to make his case. Some are familiar, like Galileo being threatened with torture and Nobel laureate Katalin Karikó being fired when on the brink of discovering how to wield mRNA. Kaplan shows how the scientific community can work faster and better by making reasonably small changes to the forces that shape it.
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If There Is No God
by Dennis Prager
For fifty years, Dennis Prager has explored the vital role Judeo-Christian values play in shaping individual lives and entire societies. In If There Is No God, he explores some of the greatest challenges he has faced concerning how one determines good and evil and why one's feelings can be life-enhancing yet morally unimportant. Thought-provoking, important, and accessible for the devout and the skeptic, If There Is No God is a guide for anyone seeking clarity in a morally troubled age.
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The Laws of Thought
by Tom Griffiths
From the coauthor of Algorithms to Live By, an exploration of the quest to use mathematics to describe the ways we think, from its origins three hundred years ago to the ideas behind modern AI systems and the ways in which they still differ from human minds. In this groundbreaking book, Tom Griffiths explains the three major approaches to formalizing thought -- rules and symbols, neural networks, and probability and statistics -- introducing each idea through the stories of the people behind it. As informed conversations about thought, language, and learning become ever more pressing in the age of AI, The Laws of Thought is an essential read for anyone interested in the future of technology.
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Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible
by Peter Pomerantsev
When British producer Peter Pomerantsev plunges into the booming Russian TV industry, he gains access to every nook and corrupt cranny of the country. He is brought to smoky rooms for meetings with propaganda gurus running the nerve-center of the Russian media machine, and visits Siberian mafia-towns and the salons of the international super-rich in London and the US. As the Putin regime becomes more aggressive, Pomerantsev finds himself drawn further into the system. Dazzling yet piercingly insightful, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible is an unforgettable voyage into a country spinning from decadence into madness.
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Plastic Inc.
by Beth Gardiner
Award-winning journalist Beth Gardiner gives readers an up-close look at the plastic industry's relentless growth, its extraordinary profits for Big Oil, its toxic pollution, and its hidden role in exacerbating climate change. Revealing the characters and personalities behind a hidden corporate and political scandal perpetuated over decades, Plastic Inc.'s gripping stories will reframe for readers a problem many of us think we understand, but which has deeper roots, and greater dangers, than we know.
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Runnin' Down a Dream
by Bill Gurley
After college Bill Gurley landed a job at a famous tech company. It should have been a dream come true -- but he was surprisingly bored. So, Gurley leapt into the unknown, eventually finding his place in venture capital. It turns out, Gurley's happy ending is rare. Nearly six in ten people would do things differently if they could start over. This is the trap of career regret. So how can we avoid it? The culmination of Gurley's decade-long project to unpack the components of success, this book identifies six principles to flourish in your chosen career. Written in Gurley's straight-talk voice and revealing the captivating stories of industry titans, Runnin' Down a Dream will inspire a new generation to find their place in the world.
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The Story of Stories
by Kevin Ashton
MIT technology pioneer Kevin Ashton was at the forefront of the digital revolution that led to the invention of the smartphone, the ultimate storytelling device. More than twenty-five years in the making, Ashton looks at the development of human storytelling to help us understand where we are in the latest iteration that is the digital era. Drawing on examples from art, literature, music, and pop culture, from the Bible to Bon Jovi, Aristotle to Artificial Intelligence, Frederick Douglass to Facebook, and cave paintings to cinema, The Story of Stories is a passionate and crucial exploration of how stories and the tools we use to tell them continue to change us, cause revolutions, and connect us to each other and give our lives meaning.
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Streetwise
by Lloyd Blankfein
When Lloyd Blankfein was attacked as a Wall Street fat cat, he had to smile, thinking of his precarious childhood in the notorious public housing projects of East New York, Brooklyn. Harvard University was a total moonshot, and his outsider status never wore off, there or at Harvard Law. Streetwise is a delightfully honest, sharp and often very funny reckoning with the author's education -- in finance, human nature, and the workings of the world. He is open about when he and the firm got it wrong, which was often enough, but the creative, risk-taking spirit was never snuffed -- even as the fail-safes put in place to protect the firm and its clients held when they were needed the most. A powerful blueprint for the wise stewardship of a cause that is larger than yourself.
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Uncluttered Faith
by Joshua Becker
This work is a transformative guide to experiencing the fullness of God's promises through the power of minimalism-from the bestselling author of The More of Less and The Minimalist Home.
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We the Women
by Norah O'Donnell
A look at American history through the eyes of women, introducing us to those who demanded the country live up to the promises made in the Declaration of Independence. Since the signing of that document, the question from women has been: Why don't those unalienable rights apply to us? From Mary Katherine Goddard, who printed the first signed Declaration of Independence, to the Forten family, who were active in the abolition and suffrage movements and were considered the Black Founders of Philadelphia, to the first women who served in the armed forces, O'Donnell brings these extraordinary women together and in doing so writes the American story anew.
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Young Man in a Hurry
by Gavin Newsom
From California Governor Gavin Newsom, an intimate and reflective memoir laying bare the defining moments of his liminal childhood splintered by his parents' divorce that shaped Newsom's visionary and relentless commitment to the state and nation.
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