<h1 style="margin-left:0.0px;">The Lifelong Learner Recommendations</h1><h3 style="margin-left:0.0px;">Winter Book Releases 2025-2026</h3>These are our handpicked feel-good “beach” &nbsp;reads and juicy page-turners for cold days. Cozy up with the hottest romance and thrillers that bring the vacation to your fireplace. You won't want to miss these seasonal reads.&nbsp;<h2 style="margin-left:0.0px;text-align:center;">December Picks:</h2><h3 style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://bookfinity.com/book/A%20Danger%20to%20the%20Minds%20of%20Young%20Girls%3A%20Margaret%20C.%20Anderson%2C%20Book%20Bans%2C%20and%20the%20Fight%20to%20Modernize%20Literature/9781668053645">A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature</a></h3>by Adam Morgan<figure class="image image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img data-ot-ignore src="https://CWSImages.ingramcontent.com/cdsImages/imageloader?id=QhjgEZLPeC+zxVExFgw2xx/jm0IzxmV2TN09O6mfeRD1N4Z0ny5FedYSNxR+qRbeEnyzkIdEDia7rjcj/zakFzpOYLpbfepRyO5gtMGs11H5HyPjSaX7tjBc/r0wVAL2EaaC7A2L5tYgzDkCuOsioLQlhSPAiCBt4WTmcEFUGKE=&amp;size=640" alt="isbn: 9781668053645,template: list"></figure>The life and times of literary pioneer and queer icon Margaret C. Anderson, who risked everything to be the first to publish James Joyce's Ulysses in America. Perfect for fans of The Editor, Flapper, and Nasty Women.Already under fire for publishing the literary avant-garde into a world not ready for it, Margaret C. Anderson's cutting-edge magazine The Little Review was a bastion of progressive politics and boundary-pushing writing from then-unknowns like T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Butler Yeats, and Djuna Barnes. And as its publisher, Anderson was a target. From Chicago to New York and Paris, this fearless agitator helmed a woman-led publication that pushed American culture forward and challenged the sensibilities of early 20th century Americans dismayed by its salacious writing and advocacy for supposed extremism like women's suffrage, access to birth control, and LBGTQ rights.<h3 style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://bookfinity.com/book/Every%20Day%20I%20Read%3A%2053%20Ways%20to%20Get%20Closer%20to%20Books/9781639737796">Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books</a></h3>by Hwang Bo-Reum - Shanna Tan<figure class="image image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img data-ot-ignore src="https://CWSImages.ingramcontent.com/cdsImages/imageloader?id=POPb23x0hvBjiFD1WmFlcd878gRncYsRlB5n+R2vUyClNFQNcpbBtelBaUX6ELogHBHJntCV5NgB1fObqGqFbqR2XRSylBmcfnFh44uho9bBx/OuFYFHf07WbWdk/NIJC3Sx0xLUN3x7RPeS5Pf3IsfQoT6CQvDPxzpaYJvHwDc=&amp;size=640" alt="isbn: 9781639737796,template: list"></figure>From the author of the international bestseller Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop, a heartfelt invitation to reflect on your relationship with reading and celebrate the joys of books.Why do we read? What is it that we hope to take away from the intimate, personal experience of reading for pleasure?How often do we ask these profound, expansive questions of ourselves and of our relationship to the joy of reading? In each of the essays in Every Day I Read, Hwang Bo-reum contemplates what living a life immersed in reading means. She goes beyond the usual questions of what to read and how often, exploring the relationship between reading and writing, when to turn to a bestseller vs. browse the corners of a bookstore, the value of reading outside of your favorite genre, falling in love with book characters, and more.<h3 style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://bookfinity.com/book/Across%20the%20Universe%3A%20The%20Past%2C%20Present%2C%20and%20Future%20of%20the%20Crossword%20Puzzle/9780553387704">Across the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of the Crossword Puzzle</a></h3>by Natan Last<figure class="image image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img data-ot-ignore src="https://CWSImages.ingramcontent.com/cdsImages/imageloader?id=xajUkI1zVKUg1CmuGZvTNSvsg8BP3+dIWr/JeGw89f44f9Dm7bg6bGsyYNQ65RgYlZ4cysIAAlYVGCAU1i7/yqsIIajo+LWygOc3qrMaCZ3T7U4nxMA/d4kezweoP0SfinHP56rtJc1Cjwg4+kp1Tfxo/dfTOlKEtzFuCBc8j2Y=&amp;size=640" alt="isbn: 9780553387704,template: list"></figure>An entertaining and eye-opening look at the history of crossword puzzles, who constructs them, and why crosswords matter as both a reflection of and influence on our culture"Warning: This book is highly contagious." -Mary Norris, author of Between You &amp; Me"A gridful of insight and pleasure."--Stefan Fatsis, bestselling author of Word Freak and Unabridged From Wordle to Spelling Bee, we live in a time of word game mania. Crosswords in particular gained renewed popularity during the COVID-19 lockdown, when games became another kind of refuge. Today, 36 million Americans solve crosswords once a week or more, and nearly 23 million solve them daily. Yet, as longtime New Yorker crossword contributor Natan Last will tell you, the seemingly apolitical puzzle has never been more controversial--or more interesting.<h3 style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://bookfinity.com/book/Capitalism%3A%20A%20Global%20History/9780735220836">Capitalism: A Global History</a></h3>by Sven Beckert<figure class="image image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img data-ot-ignore src="https://CWSImages.ingramcontent.com/cdsImages/imageloader?id=TQNzSsT9XCYTzI31Y/y6BcofSdIByKs5CfrOMK5GehhCQPxYK8h4cxEkkIytrvVVsyhbHfpn9Pn7N3CC6+TBz4VCHcuaCggEnO6ZqFy+jtN2CpmgudlfcvY2Wn+C8oAnXJw5ezO0kYeoq2iJiUnZ/YWmn0VDWSwSbnfG5DbFHi4=&amp;size=640" alt="isbn: 9780735220836,template: list"></figure>A landmark event years in the making, a brilliant global narrative that unravels the defining story of the past thousand years of human historyNo other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisively as capitalism. It structures how we live and work, how we think about ourselves and others, how we organize our politics. Sven Beckert, author of the Bancroft Prize-winning Empire of Cotton, places the story of capitalism within the largest conceivable geographical and historical framework, tracing its history during the past millennium and across the world. An epic achievement, his book takes us into merchant businesses in Aden and car factories in Turin, onto the terrifyingly violent sugar plantations in Barbados, and within the world of women workers in textile factories in today's Cambodia.Capitalism, argues Beckert, was born global. Emerging from trading communities across Asia, Africa, and Europe, capitalism's radical recasting of economic life rooted itself only gradually.&nbsp;<h3 style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://bookfinity.com/book/The%20Sea%20Captain's%20Wife%3A%20A%20True%20Story%20of%20Mutiny%2C%20Love%2C%20and%20Adventure%20at%20the%20Bottom%20of%20the%20World/9781250352583">The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Mutiny, Love, and Adventure at the Bottom of the World</a></h3>by Tilar J Mazzeo<figure class="image image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img data-ot-ignore src="https://CWSImages.ingramcontent.com/cdsImages/imageloader?id=TFq3CdkBpUSP3NB2s0XmMvR6tjHJATfVVdppoYFR7TL5SSEiUfi+JUIJm3T7xAGIuzspVSqOJfMeY1n9DRLLGHLO9+GfxWuDoKOrWiZyzZhuO94vsFIxMElcW2RQSYHSSAXaru1Pe+jDkVd/ZalQBrdGSK/ZGT46VmyjBUY/nME=&amp;size=640" alt="isbn: 9781250352583,template: list"></figure>The true story of the first female captain of a merchant ship and her treacherous navigation of Antarctica's deadly waters, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot Summer, 1856Nineteen-year-old Mary Ann Patten and her husband, Joshua, were young and ambitious. Both from New England seafaring families, they had already completed their first clipper-ship voyage around the world with Joshua as captain. If they could win the race to San Francisco that year, their dream of building a farm and a family might be within reach. It would mean freedom. And the price of that freedom was one last dangerous transit--into the most treacherous waters in the world.As their ship, Neptune's Car, left New York Harbor and sailed down the jagged coast of South America, Joshua fell deathly ill and was confined to his bunk, delirious. The treacherous first mate, confined to the brig for insubordination, was agitating for mutiny. With no obvious option for a new captain and heartbroken about her husband, Mary Ann stepped into the breach and convinced the crew to support her, just as they slammed into a gale that would last 18 days. Determined to save the ship, the crew, and their future, she faces down the deadly waters of Drake's Passage.<h3 style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://bookfinity.com/book/The%20Tower%20and%20the%20Ruin%3A%20J.R.R.%20Tolkien's%20Creation/9781324093886">The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation</a></h3>by Michael DC Drout<figure class="image image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img data-ot-ignore src="https://CWSImages.ingramcontent.com/cdsImages/imageloader?id=lBzajl7USz5WJq/YBO6Hq4bOfoaUWCQOTw3HmJ9G9Kj8Rpz2wvtr4zn8UNz3HPiRzthRV4XLr4G8k66Hv/GrrDf6htdRvMi0xK5wWRu8nEeBLuKnj0ZAHedr/tCrdDk248oTzFDD8jd+EE3/51VlavsmnTrM39mIs2vJcgNxWIw=&amp;size=640" alt="isbn: 9781324093886,template: list"></figure>No writer has surpassed the epic achievement of J.R.R. Tolkien, who spent decades refining his Middle-earth--a world that has felt so real to so many readers that it is almost impossible to imagine that any single person could have simply created it, seemingly out of thin air. In The Tower and the Ruin, Michael D. C. Drout takes us deep into Tolkien's genius, allowing us to glimpse the making of not only The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and The Silmarillion but also lesser-known books such as The Fall of Gondolin as well as Tolkien's poetry and innovative scholarship.&nbsp;

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