In Stores Now, February 2025

Apostle of Liberation: AME Bishop Paul Quinn and the Underground Railroad
by Cheryl Janifer LaRoche
Rowman & Littlefield

Woody Allen: A Travesty of a Mockery of a Sham
by Patrick McGilligan
Harper

A Matter of Complexion: The Life and Fictions of Charles W. Chesnutt
by Tess Chakkalakal
St. Martin’s Press

A Time for Reflection: The Parallel Legacies of Baseball Icons Willie McCovey and Billy Williams
by Jason Cannon
Rowman & Littlefield

Stomp Off, Let’s Go: The Early Years of Louis Armstrong
by Ricky Riccardi 
Oxford University Press

Eternal Flame: The Authorized Biography of The Bangles
by Jennifer Otter Bickerdike
Hachette Books

Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live (Lorne Michaels)
by Susan Morrison
Random House

Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
by Rebecca Romney
S&S/Marysue Rucci Books

The Lives and Deaths of the Princesses of Hesse: The Curious Destinies of Queen Victoria’s Granddaughters
by Frances Welch
Short Books

Captive Queen: The Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of Scots
by Jade Scott
Pegasus Books

The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe
by Nancy Goldstone
Little, Brown and Company

Dip My Brain in Joy: A Life with Neil Innes, The Official Biography
by Yvonne Innes 
Nine Eight Books

Harriet Tubman, Military Scout and Tenacious Visionary: From Her Roots in Ghana to Her Legacy on the Eastern Shore
by Jean Marie Wiesen and Rita Daniels 
Pegasus Books

How Good It Is I Have No Fear of Dying: Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko’s Fight for Ukraine
by Lara Marlowe
Melville House

Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry
by Adam Plunkett
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Bela Lugosi: The Man Behind the Cape
by Robert Cremer
Clover Press

The Countess and The Nazis: An American Family’s Private War (Muriel White)
by Richard Jay Hutto
Lyons Press

A Giant Among Giants: The Baseball Life of Willie McCovey
by Chris Haft
University of Nebraska Press

Thutmose III and Hatshepsut, Pharaohs of Egypt: Their Lives and Afterlives
by Aidan Dodson
The American University in Cairo Press

Maria Theresa, Empress: The Making of the Austrian Enlightenment
by Richard Bassett
Yale University Press

Jamsetji Tata: Powerful Learnings for Corporate Success
by Harish Bhat and R. Gopalakrishnan 
Penguin Business

Driftwood: The Life of Harlan Hubbard
by Jessica K. Whitehead 
University Press of Kentucky

Making the Weather: Six Politicians Who Changed Modern Britain
by Vernon Bogdanor 
Haus Publishing

American Populist: Huey Long of Louisiana
by Thomas E. Patterson
LSU Press

Arum and King: Six Decades of Boxing Gold (Bob Arum and Don King)
by Marty Corwin
Rowman & Littlefield

Franklin D. Israel: A Life in Architecture
by Todd Gannon
Getty Research Institute

Everything Under the Sun: The Complete Guide to Pink Floyd
by Mike Cormack 
The History Press

Queens of Bohemia, And Other Miss-Fits
by Darren Coffield
The History Press

Leonardo da Vinci: An Untraceable Life
by Stephen J. Campbell
Princeton University Press

Karl Lagerfeld: A Fashion History
Marie Ottavi
Rizzoli

I’m Not Your Muse: Uncovering the Overshadowed Brilliance of Women Artists & Visionaries
by Lori Zimmer
Running Press Adult

Presidents At War: How World War II Shaped a Generation of Presidents, from Eisenhower and JFK through Reagan and Bush
by Steven M. Gillon
Dutton

Abraham: The First Jew
by Anthony Julius
Yale University Press

The Future: Connor Bedard and the Chicago Blackhawks’ New Era
by Tab Bamford
Triumph Books

Dr. Joseph Warren: The Boston Tea Party, Bunker Hill, and the Birth of American Liberty
by Sam A. Forman
Pelican Publishing

Military Maverick: Selected Letters and War Diary of ‘Chink’ Dorman-Smith
by Lavinia Greacen
Pen and Sword Military

A Woman of Firsts: Margaret Heckler, Political Trailblazer
by Kimberly Heckler
Lyons Press

Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood’s First Stuntwoman
by Mallory O’Meara
Hanover Square Press

Song for Someone: The Musical Life of Kenny Wheeler
by Brian Shaw and Nick Smart 
Equinox Publishing

A Real Negro Girl: Fredi Washington and the New Negro Renaissance
by Laurie A. Woodard
Oxford University Press

A. Dwiggins: A Life in Design
by Bruce Kennett
Letterform Archive Books

Metallica: The Stories Behind the Songs
by Chris Ingham
Welbeck

Speculative Light: The Arts of Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin
by Amy J. Elias 
Duke University Press Books

Mwah – Dua Lipa: The Illustrated Biography
by Carolyn McHugh
Sona Books

To the Hilt: A Sword Swallower’s History of Sword Swallowing
by Dan Meyer and Marc Hartzman
Schiffer

Searching for Jimmie Strother: A Tale of Music, Murder, and Memory
by Gregg D. Kimball
Rivanna

Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation
by Kenneth Turan
Yale University Press

Chrystia: From Peace River to Parliament Hill (Chrystia Freeland)
by Catherine Tsalikis
House of Anansi Press

Band of Sisters: Madeleine Pauliac, the Women of the Blue Squadron, and Their Daring Rescue Missions in the Last Days of World War II
by Philippe Maynial
Rowman & Littlefield

Selling Baseball: How Superstars George Wright and Albert Spalding Impacted Sports in America
by Jeffrey Orens
Rowman & Littlefield

You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis and the Biography of a Song
by Robert Mann
LSU Press

Monumental: The Art of David Adickes
by Michael H. Henderson and Melissa L. Mednicov
Texas A&M University Press

The Musical Life of Melanie: From the Village to Woodstock and Beyond
by Craig Harris
Rowman & Littlefield

Eugene Jarvis: King of the Arcade
by Matthew Thomas Payne
Bloomsbury Academic

Edward Elgar and Adrian Boult
by Nigel Simeone
Boydell Press

Ella Fitzgerald: The Official Graphic Novel
by Ngozi Nwadiogbu
Fantoons

Unburied: The True Story of Hannah Beswick, the Manchester Mummy
by Hannah Priest
Manchester University Press

Balloon Ace: The Life of an Early Airpower Visionary (Louis Bennett Jr.)
by Charles D. Dusch Jr. 
University Press of Kentucky

Robert Wedderburn: British Insurrectionary, Jamaican Abolitionist
by Ryan Hanley
Yale University Press

Scott Fitzgerald Remembered
by Jackson R. Bryer and Richard Reisinger, editors
Camden House

Leading Figures in the History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.: Volume 1
by Judson L. Jeffries
University Press of Florida

Leading Figures in the History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.: Volume 2
by Judson L. Jeffries
University Press of Florida

Fort Worth Characters 2
by Richard F. Selcer
University of North Texas Press

Willard Gibbs: The Whole Is Simpler than Its Parts
by Muriel Rukeyser
Marginalian Editions

Qian Xuesen: A Graphic Biography (1911–2009)
by Qixin Xi
Naturalogic Publishing Inc.

Frederick Douglass: A Life in American History
by Mark Christian
ABC-CLIO

Soul of the Court: The Trailblazing Life of Judge William Benson Bryant Sr. 
by Tonya Bolden
University Press of Mississippi

Dolores Huerta: A Life in American History
by April Tellez
ABC-CLIO

Gendered Memories: An Imaginary Museum for Ding Ling and Chinese Female Revolutionary Martyrs
by Xian Wang
University of Michigan Press

Julie Reisserová (1888–1938): Czech Composer and Feminist
by Jean-Paul C. Montagnier
Cambridge University Press

Stalin’s Liquidation Game: The Unlikely Case of Oleksandr Shumskyi, His Survival in Soviet Prison, and His Subsequent Arcane Assassination
by Filip Slaveski and Yuri Shapoval
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

Passage Works: Ruth Beckermann’s Art
by Patricia Allmer and John Sears
Manchester University Press

The Two Princes of Mpfumo: An Early Eighteenth-Century Journey Into and Out of Slavery
by Lindsay O’Neill
University of Pennsylvania Press

Forging Identity: The Story of Carlos Nielbock’s Detroit
by Paul J. Draus
Michigan State University Press

Gertrude Bell’s Moment in the Middle East: A Reappraisal
by Liora Lukitz
I.B. Tauris