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(Gallery Books, 2025).

Heartwarming, romantic, and laugh-out-loud funny, this debut novel tells two equally riveting stories that intertwine. One focuses on rival editors, Rebecca Blume and Ben Heath, who find themselves competing for the rights to an estate of a literary legend, Edward Adams, following his death. The second story travels back in time 40 years to recount the early career of Rebecca’s mother, Jane, who unbeknownst to her daughter once had a connection with Adams.

(De Gruyter, 2025).

How can leading companies thrive in an emerging future that prioritizes decarbonization and dematerialization? This book aims to help investors, citizens, students, and educators discover proven strategies for sustainable growth; CEOs and corporate secretaries to reframe board agendas; and boards to measure performance and chart a course to transform climate risk into opportunity.

(Marrowstone Press, 2025)

According to the publisher, this volume is “a mediation on the tragic and variously religious or metaphysical deep pasts of Greek, Roman, Chinese, Japanese, and Nordic poetries and fragments of poems or plays whose implicit voices are summoned to the present through the re-creations of memory, not through translation but a dialogic, free rendition of them, making new poems from old ones. Among its reimagined voices are those of the Greek tragedians, Horace, a few of the earliest Chinese and Japanese poets, and the lays and sagas of Northern Europe.

(Columbia University Press, 2025).

The arrival of the Trump administration marked a sharp shift in how the federal government viewed its own role. Promising to cut red tape and rethink Washington’s bureaucracy, the president’s agenda tested long-standing norms of democratic governance. But what happens to civil servants when political leadership seeks to redefine the government they serve? How do they balance their professional obligations with shifting visions of democracy and public trust?

(NFB Publishing, 2025).

The author worked for nine years as curator for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House complex, and this novel draws from his personal process of discovery. “It’s a meditation on sublimity and the futility of finite knowledge, exploring themes of personal, professional, and spiritual doubt,” he said.

(self-published, 2025).

In this slim volume, the author explores the science of sexuality and why understanding the brain’s role in determining gender identity, sexual orientation, and gender expression is imperative to alleviating discrimination faced by the LGBTQ community.

(Routledge, 2025).

This book is designed to provide a roadmap for conducting arts-based research, offering a vibrant exploration of how ethnography, autoethnography, poetry, and fiction can be used in research projects.

(Wordwooze Publishing, 2025).

Peter Kovacs, an adjunct professor at an urban community college, explores the concept of “home” with his students while, outside the classroom, he manages relationships with a strange neighbor, his ex-wife, a newly adopted cat, and a fellow professor. When a newborn baby is found abandoned in a trash can in an alley near the college, he finds himself compelled to find out what happened. Meanwhile, in a parallel narrative that eventually intersects with Peter’s, a young Japanese boy drawn to photography strives to find meaning to his own life.

(Atmosphere Press, 2025).

Wistful. Nostalgic. Comforting. These are just a few of the words readers use to describe Cater’s debut short story collection, which spans the 1950s to the 2000s. He brings to life his “adventures in New Jersey, escapades in Alabama, summers in Wellfleet on Cape Cod, business in the South, career mistakes in Boston, trips to Aruba, London, Vietnam, and a second home in Barbados.”

(Oxford University Press, 2025).

This popular hit tune by Dolly Parton is the subject of Hamessley’s second book focused on the singer, songwriter, actress, philanthropist, and businesswoman’s music and song-writing. It follows Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton (2020), which provided a comprehensive look at the process, influences, and themes that shaped Parton’s songwriting. According to the publisher’s website, this new book provides “a deep dive into ‘Jolene,’ one of Dolly Parton’s most well-known songs.”