May 2025 list by Nanette Alderman |
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Argentina
by Stephen Keeling
This updated guide provides expert advice, detailed maps and must-see highlights, from tango lessons to local wine tasting, featuring photography, hand-drawn illustrations, and suggested itineraries to help navigate the country's vibrant culture, sights and experiences.
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Adventures in the Louvre
by Elaine Sciolino
The Louvre is the most famous museum in the world, attracting millions of visitors every year with its masterpieces. Elaine Sciolino immerses herself in this magical space and helps us fall in love with what was once a forbidding fortress. Exploring galleries, basements, rooftops, and gardens, Sciolino demystifies the Louvre, introducing us to her favorite artworks, both legendary and overlooked, and to the people who are the museum's lifeblood.
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The Bodyweight Blueprint: Over 70 Workouts to Achieve Your Training Goals
by Brad Kolowich
A library of bodyweight-only workouts that cover a variety of workout styles, training outcomes, and movement types. In addition to the workouts, it will explain the advantages of bodyweight training, explain how to design workouts for various goals, give recommendations for progression, and provide multiple programs.
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Every Day with Babs: 101 Family-Friendly Dinners for Every Day of the Week
by Barbara Costello
The social media star and grandmother of nine behind BrunchwithBabs offers a weeknight-friendly collection of comforting, family-approved recipes, organized by theme for each day and including Beth's Sloppy Joe Casserole, Clean Your Fridge Frittata and Moroccan Chickpea Apricot Stew.
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Hubris Maximus: The Shattering of Elon Musk
by Faiz Siddiqui
Elon Musk has cast himself as the savior of humanity, an altruistic force whose fortune is tied to noble pursuits from halting our dependence on fossil fuels to colonizing Mars. Once frequently heralded as a modern-day Edison, Musk has taken up a new place in the public consciousness with his growing desire to disrupt not just the automotive and space industries but the policies that shape our nation, placing him at the center of America's most complex undertakings in manufacturing, politics, and defense and technology, even as his increasingly erratic personal behavior has raised questions about his stability and judgement.
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I Was Told There'd Be a Village: Transforming Motherhood Through the Power of Connection
by Melissa Wirt
Melissa describes how she began making small changes-leaving behind a damaging Isolation Mindset and developing an advantageous Village Mindset. Using personal anecdotes and stories from moms across the country, this book provides specific, actionable steps to transform oppressive, solitary parenting into a connected, collective, even joyful, endeavor.
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The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward
by Melinda Gates
In a rare window into some of her life's pivotal moments, Melinda French Gates draws from previously untold stories to offer a new perspective on encountering transitions. "You don't get to be my age without navigating all kinds of transitions. Some you embraced and some you never expected. Some you hoped for and some you fought as hard as you could."
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No More Tears: The Dark Story of Johnson & Johnson
by Gardiner Harris
In this blistering exposé, an award-winning investigative journalist uncovers reams of evidence showing decades of Johnson & Johnson's deceitful and dangerous corporate practices that have threatened the lives of millions.
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No New Things: A Radically Simple 30-day Guide to Saving Money, the Planet, and Your Sanity
by Ashlee Piper
From award-winning sustainability expert Ashlee Piper, a witty, no-nonsense guide to regaining control over your time, consumerist impulses, and financial and mental wellness For nearly two years, Ashlee Piper challenged herself to buy nothing new. And in the process, she got out of debt, cut clutter, crushed her goals, and became healthier and happier than ever-all the things she'd always wanted to do.
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The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America
by David A. Graham
Offers much-needed context and distills the essential elements of the Project 2025 document. Breaking down the Project’s strategy for transforming and radically empowering the executive branch, Graham then explains what the architects behind Project 2025 are doing with that power: enforcing traditional gender norms, decimating the civil service, performing mass deportations, reducing corporate regulation and worker protections, and more.
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The Rebel Romanov: Julie of Saxe-coburg, The Empress Russia Never Had
by Helen Rappaport
In 1795, Catherine the Great of Russia was in search of a bride for her grandson Constantine, who stood third in line to her throne. In an eerie echo of her own story, Catherine selected an innocent young German princess, Julie of Saxe-Coburg, aunt of the future Queen Victoria. At a time when many royal brides meekly submitted to disastrous marriages, Julie proved to be a woman ahead of her time, sacrificing her reputation and a life of luxury in exchange for the freedom to live as she wished.
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