Giftable Books for Father’s Day

The cats of America are under siege! Long gone are the good old days when a cat’s biggest worries were mean dogs or a bath. Modern cats must confront satanists, online predators, the possibility of needing to survive in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, and countless other threats to their nine lives.

The bestselling author of The River returns with a heart-racing thriller about a young man who, escaping his own grief, is hired by an elite fishing lodge in Colorado, where amid the natural beauty of sun-drenched streams and forests he uncovers a plot of shocking menace.

Sam Sifton, founding editor of New York Times Cooking, makes improvisational cooking easier than you think. In this handy book, Sifton delivers more than one hundred no-recipe recipes to make with the ingredients you have on hand. You’ll see how to make these meals as big or as small as you like, substituting ingredients as you go.

A sweeping history — and counter-narrative — of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee is the essential, intimate story of a resilient people in a transformative era.