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