Meridian, an aspiring ornithologist, reluctantly shares an unfulfilling marriage with a professor before bonding with a Vietnam veteran who helps her recognize the changes happening throughout the world at the dawn of the 1970s.

As his own son gets ready to leave for college, Vincent Bianco recalls his final summer before college in 1979, during which he received an education of a lifetime while working alongside two Vietnam vets as a laborer on a construction site.

A "New Yorker" copy veteran presents humorous descriptions of some of the most common and vexing errors in language and usage, drawing on examples from classic literature and pop culture while sharing anecdotes from her work with celebrated writers.

"Trevor Benson never intended to move back to New Bern, North Carolina. But when a mortar blast outside the hospital where he worked in Afghanistan sent him home with devastating injuries, the cabin he inherited from his grandfather seemed as good a place to regroup as any. Tending to his grandfather's beloved beehives, Trevor isn't prepared to fall in love with deputy sheriff Natalie Masterson, who--despite reciprocating his feelings--remains frustratingly...

Thirteen-year-old Sammy meets a mysterious man who dies of a heart attack after telling her to get rid of the large amount of money he is carrying, leading her to investigate who the man was and how he came to be carrying so much cash.

Returning to the small Cornish town where he was born after surviving World War I, Daniel is haunted by memories of his closest friend and his first love before suffering the unforeseen consequences of a lie.

In a gripping, accessible narrative, a veteran science journalist lays out the shocking story of how the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic happened and how to make sure this never happens again.

A veteran of the Royal Navy and former police officer describes how he rescued a willful but unusually intelligent dog who became his partner in the United Kingdom Pet Detective Agency, which helps owners track down their lost pets.

Robert 'Doc' Wright, a veteran of Antarctic surveying, was there on the ice when the worst happened. He holds within him the complete story of that night - but depleted by the disaster, Wright is no longer able to communicate the truth. Instead, in the wake of the catastrophic expedition, he faces the most daunting adventure of his life: learning a whole new way to be in the world. Meanwhile Anna, his wife, must suddenly scramble to navigate the sharp...