New York, NY (March 19, 2026)—Da Capo, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing (GCP) and the Hachette Book Group announce the publication of IN MY DARKEST HOUR: A Memoir by Dave Mustaine with Joe Layden on September 8, 2026. “In My Darkest Hour is Dave Mustaine at his most revealing, vulnerable, and true,” stated Ben Schafer, Executive Editor, Da Capo. “With lacerating honesty and soulful reflection, he speaks to the universal human experience of facing serious illness and how it changes a person, their family and friends, and one’s relationship with creativity. Da Capo is proud to publish Dave Mustaine’s most unblinking memoir to date, one that isn’t only for Megadeth fans.” 

“One of most harrowing experiences of my adult life has been my seven-year journey through cancer treatment and onward into remission,” Dave Mustaine says about the experiences detailed in the forthcoming book. “This story is considerably more than just go to the doctor, get diagnosed, get treatment and hopefully I live happily ever after. This was a journey of me saving myself, staying alive, keeping my family together, and continuing to make music through it all.” 

Dave Mustaine is no stranger to pain and suffering. He battled demons all his life—including an alcoholic father, addiction, and black magic—and turned fifty-eight believing he’d survived the worst. But in 2019, Mustaine was forced to face the loss of his instantly recognizable voice and the disintegration of his musical talent. Diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma at the back of his tongue, his entire career—and possibly his life—was about to end.
 
For Mustaine, it was one more opportunity to fight like hell.

IN MY DARKEST HOUR takes readers from the treatment room to the studio as Mustaine chronicles how his diagnosis inspired him to take up the pen and guitar pick, going from radiation and chemotherapy appointments straight into hours-long recording sessions, resulting in Megadeth’s sixteenth studio album, The Sick, The Dying…and the Dead! Along the way, Mustaine details how confronting his own mortality brought him closer to his family, taught him how to ask for help, strengthened his faith, and challenged the vulnerability of his art.
 
Filled with perseverance, hope, and the determination to never let the bastards grind you down, IN MY DARKEST HOUR is a masterful portrait of a Dave Mustaine that the world has yet to see, and serves as a moving reminder that even our most invincible heroes are human.

Now, six years removed from that initial diagnosis, Mustaine is seeing the biggest success of his 40-plus-year career with Megadeth’s final studio album and tour. Committed to go out on top, Megadeth’s new album (released in January 2026) debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 in the U.S., marking the band’s highest debut week ever on the chart. Around the world, the album garnered critical acclaim and hit #1 in 11 countries and landed Top 5 positions on 11 additional charts. 

About Dave Mustaine: Dave Mustaine and his band Megadeth are always and forever the point of no return for metal. It would be nearly impossible to conceive where heavy music and culture would’ve gone without the band founded, fronted, and fueled by vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, and producer Dave Mustaine. As a founding member of Metallica, and then founder of Megadeth, the blast radius of Mustaine’s impact has only been magnified since 1983. Thus far, they have sold 50 million records worldwide, received a GRAMMY® Award (with 12 additional nominations), generated billions of streams, notched nine Top 10 entries on the Billboard 200, and enthralled millions of diehard fans in arenas and stadiums across the globe. Their catalog spans indisputable classics such as the platinum Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying? (cited at #8 on Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time”), the platinum Rust In Peace, and double-platinum Countdown To Extinction, which captured #2 on the Billboard 200. Meanwhile, Dystopia notched a Top 3 debut and earned a GRAMMY® Award in the category of “Best Metal Performance” with its title track. They only upped the ferocity with The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead! in 2022. It saw them return to #3, receive a “Best Metal Performance” GRAMMY® Award nomination for “We’ll Be Back,” and incite rave reviews. In 2026 Mustaine and the band reached the apex of their success: a #1 debut with their self-titled final album on the Billboard 200. Along with #1s on seven additional Billboard charts, Mustaine and Megadeth logged #1s in eleven countries. The band is currently on their multi-year farewell tour.

About Da Capo: 

Da Capo is an imprint dedicated to publishing definitive biographies, memoirs, and narrative non-fiction about music and musicians. Through music, we encounter the world and the counterculture traditions that have animated creative movements in the 20^th and 21^st centuries. From classic rock and punk to metal, jazz, and hip hop, Da Capo’s books are made with the active listener in mind, whose music is a cornerstone of their identity. 

About Grand Central Publishing:

Grand Central Publishing reaches a diverse audience through books that cater to every kind of reader. Its imprints are Balance, Cardinal, Da Capo, Forever, Grand Central, and Legacy Lit.   Grand Central Publishing is one of three divisions of the Grand Central Publishing Group, which also includes Hachette Nashville and Union Square & Co.  

About Hachette Book Group:

Hachette Book Group (HBG) is a leading US general-interest book publisher made up of dozens of esteemed imprints within the publishing groups Basic Books Group; Grand Central Publishing Group; Hachette Audio; Little, Brown and Company; Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Orbit; and Workman Running Press Group. We also provide custom distribution, fulfillment, and sales services to other publishing companies.  

Our books and authors have received the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Caldecott Medal, Newbery Medal, Booker Prize, Nobel Peace Prize and other major honors.  

We are committed to diversity in our company and our publishing programs, and to fostering a culture of inclusion for all our employees and authors. We are proud to be part of Hachette Livre, the world’s third-largest trade and educational publisher.  

Visit hachettebookgroup.com to learn more about HBG imprints. For updated news follow HBG on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Threads, TikTok, X.com, Pinterest, and YouTube. 

Dark alleys, moral gray zones, and characters who rarely get what they deserve—noir has always thrived on the tension between truth and illusion. Whether set in rain-slicked city streets or quiet towns hiding dangerous secrets, the best noir novels pull readers into worlds where every choice has a cost and every revelation comes a little too late.

Here are six noir novels we’re reading right now that deserve a spot on your nightstand.

The Devil Takes You Home

by Gabino Iglesias

Buried in debt due to his young daughter’s illness, his marriage at the brink, Mario reluctantly takes a job as a hitman, surprising himself with his proclivity for violence. After tragedy destroys the life he knew, Mario agrees to one final job: hijack a cartel’s cash shipment before it reaches Mexico. Along with an old friend and a cartel-insider named Juanca, Mario sets off on the near-suicidal mission, which will leave him with either a cool $200,000 or a bullet in the skull. But the path to reward or ruin is never as straight as it seems. As the three complicated men travel through the endless landscape of Texas, across the border and back, their hidden motivations are laid bare alongside nightmarish encounters that defy explanation. One thing is certain: even if Mario makes it out alive, he won’t return the same.

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A Violent Masterpiece

by Jordan Harper

In present-day Los Angeles, a series of shocking crimes—from a missing woman to the brutal killings of the LA Ripper—hint at a conspiracy involving some of the city’s most powerful men.
As chaos spreads, three unlikely figures—a livestreaming nightcrawler, a streetwise defense lawyer, and a concierge for the ultra-rich—begin investigating from different angles. Their searches collide, exposing a dark network of wealth, power, and violence at the heart of the city.

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From the Dust

by David Swinson

Graham Sanderson thought he’d left it all behind. His years as a Washington, DC, homicide detective, his tragically dead wife, pain, violence. Taking over his father’s house in the remote Finger Lakes region of rural New York, and looking after his shut-in brother, Tommy, seemed like a respite. That is, until the first body is found. 

The chief of the town’s small police jurisdiction, who is also a family friend, asks for Graham’s assistance. Graham’s instincts immediately kick in and he soon discovers there’s more to the area—the people, its brutally quiet, sophisticated hierarchies—than he or his family ever knew. 

David Swinson’s latest novel is a soulful, rural noir story about belief: the extremities to which it pushes a community, the fear it instills in the hearts of adherents and doubters alike, and need for it nevertheless. As Graham delves deeper into the strange and then stranger circumstances of the murders, his own beliefs become challenged. What do you finally stand for when you’ve got nothing left to lose?

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King of Ashes

S. A. Cosby

When Roman Carruthers returns home after his father’s suspicious car crash, he finds his family in crisis: his brother Dante owes dangerous criminals, and his sister Neveah is struggling to keep their father’s crematorium running in their fading Virginia town.
Roman has the money—and the financial savvy—to try to fix things, but he quickly realizes he’s dealing with real gangsters. As the danger closes in, he offers the only thing he has left to save his brother: himself and his skills. Meanwhile, Neveah searches for the truth about their mother’s long-ago disappearance, uncovering secrets that threaten to tear the family apart.

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A Tree Born Crooked

Steph Post

When James Hart learns of his father’s death, he’s forced to return to the one place he’s avoided for years: home.

Located in Florida, Crystal Springs is a place where dreams are born to die. Once back in the rural and stagnant town, James learns that his brother’s crimes have caught up to him. Despite his hesitations, James teams up with a local bartender and hatches a plan to save his brother’s life.

Soon, James finds himself on a whirlwind road trip across the desolate Florida panhandle, trying to outrun an enemy more dangerous than he knows. With bullets in the air and the ghosts of his past haunting him at every turn, James is forced to decide just how much he’s willing to risk to save his family.

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Shadow Ticket

Thomas Pynchon

Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labor-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a onetime strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he’s found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, locating and bringing back the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune who’s taken a mind to go wandering. Before he knows it, he’s been shanghaied onto a transoceanic liner, ending up eventually in Hungary where there’s no shoreline, a language from some other planet, and enough pastry to see any cop well into retirement–and of course no sign of the runaway heiress he’s supposed to be chasing. By the time Hicks catches up with her he will find himself also entangled with Nazis, Soviet agents, British counterspies, swing musicians, practitioners of the paranormal, outlaw motorcyclists, and the troubles that come with each of them, none of which Hicks is qualified, forget about being paid, to deal with. Surrounded by history he has no grasp on and can’t see his way around in or out of, the only bright side for Hicks is it’s the dawn of the Big Band Era and as it happens he’s a pretty good dancer. Whether this will be enough to allow him somehow to Lindy-hop his way back again to Milwaukee and the normal world, which may no longer exist, is another question.

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Follett’s THE DEEP AND SECRET THINGS to be published worldwide by Quercus and Grand Central Publishing in September 2027

New York, US and London, UK (March 11, 2026)— Ken Follett, one of the world’s most successful authors, has signed a new global English language deal with Hachette UK and Hachette Book Group for his new novel, THE DEEP AND SECRET THINGS. Ben Sevier, President and Publisher of Hachette Book Group’s Grand Central Publishing Group and Nick Davies, Managing Director of Hachette UK’s Quercus, acquired US and Canada rights and UK and Commonwealth rights respectively, directly from the Follett Office. The new novel will be published worldwide on September 21, 2027.   

In September 2025, Hachette published Ken Follett’s critically acclaimed epic novel, CIRCLE OF DAYS, about the origins of one of the world’s great mysteries, Stonehenge.   A major global bestseller, CIRCLE OF DAYS has been published in 21 languages around the world.   

In his new novel THE DEEP AND SECRET THINGS, master storyteller Ken Follett immerses readers in a tale of family, religion, greed and ambition set during the sweeping societal changes of the Victorian age.

1853, South Wales. Helena Bowen, a young noblewoman, longs to study science, a wish that society denies her. When Helena first meets the Llewellyns, she knows little about their Quaker beliefs. The Llewellyns run a successful wheelmaking business, but despite their financial achievements, their religion calls for a life of simplicity, truth and equality between all. Lloyd Lewellyn, the owner’s son, epitomises all these values and his forward way of thinking deeply impresses Helena.

But then she encounters Lloyd’s cousin Johnnie, the beau of the clan, who – unlike Lloyd – is fiercely ambitious. His charming manner makes him irresistible to women and Helena also falls under his spell. But Johnnie is a risk taker. When a young teacher in the village falls pregnant with his child, and Johnnie makes an embarrassing and detrimental mistake in the company’s accounts, he runs away to London, to start fresh and build the empire he’s always longed for.

At first, all goes according to plan, and along the way Johnnie’s path crosses again with Helena’s. But Johnnie’s insatiable greed for lust and money is the cause for another, unspeakable scandal which may lead to his ultimate downfall. 

The Deep and Secret Things tells the rise and fall of a young man and his legacy, set against the backdrop of the Victorian era, at a time of immense social and industrial change.

Ken Follett said of his new novel: “I love stories set in the Victorian era because of the shocking contrasts. Britain was richer than any country had ever been, but the London slums were places of grim poverty. Moral rules were strict, but rich men had mistresses and destitute women turned, in desperation, to prostitution. Dresses were gorgeous and parties were lavish, but the children of the poor started work at the age of seven. The Deep and Secret Things is about four characters who dangerously cross boundaries and live the lives they believe in—for better or worse.”

David Shelley, CEO Hachette Book Group and Hachette UK, said: “I am so proud that we will be publishing The Deep and Secret Things on both sides of the Atlantic, and honoured that Ken has chosen to continue his publishing relationship with the teams at Grand Central and Quercus. He is a unique storyteller and I can’t wait to share this book with his many devoted fans.”

Ben Sevier, President and Publisher, Grand Central Publishing Group, said: “It has been such a privilege to work with global writing legend Ken Follett.  After bringing his acclaimed epic novel Circle of Days to his legions of American readers last year, I am thrilled for the opportunity to publish his newest The Deep and Secret Things and for the GCP team to make it a major publishing event in 2027.”     

Nick Davies, John Murray Group Managing Director, said: “I’m thrilled that Quercus and Grand Central are able to collaborate again on Ken’s second global English language project with Hachette.  Circle of Days became an instant Sunday Times bestseller last year delighting his fans with a deeply human story of the building of Stonehenge; The Deep and Secret Things is sure to captivate and thrill his readers anew as we dive into the Victorian era for one of 2027’s most exciting publications.”  

THE DEEP AND SECRET THINGS will also be published in foreign language editions around the world including:

• Denmark: Gyldendal
• France: Robert Laffont
• Germany: Bastei Lübbe AG
• Italy: Mondadori Libri S.P.A.
• The Netherlands: Meulenhoff Boekerij
• Portugal: Editorial Presença
• Spain: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial

About Ken Follett:

Ken Follett is one of the world’s most successful authors. More than 198 million copies of the 38 books he has written have been sold in over 80 countries and in 40 languages.

He started his career as a reporter, first with his hometown newspaper the South Wales Echo and then with the London Evening News. 

Ken’s first major success came with the publication of Eye of the Needle in 1978, which earned him the 1979 Edgar Award for Best Novel from the Mystery Writers of America. 

In 1989, The Pillars of the Earth, Ken’s epic novel about the building of a medieval cathedral, reached number one on bestseller lists everywhere. It was turned into a major television series produced by Ridley Scott, which aired in 2010. 

Ken has been active in numerous literacy charities and was president of Dyslexia Action for ten years. He is also a past chair of the National Year of Reading, a joint initiative between government and business. He lives in Hertfordshire, England, with his wife Barbara. Between them they have five children, six grandchildren and two Labradors.

About Hachette Book Group:

Hachette Book Group (HBG) is a leading U.S. general-interest book publisher made up of dozens of esteemed imprints within the publishing groups Basic Books Group, Grand Central Publishing Group, Hachette Audio, Little, Brown and Company, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Orbit, Workman Publishing, and Running Press Group. We also provide custom distribution, fulfillment, and sales services to several publishing companies.   

Our books and authors have received the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Caldecott Medal, Newbery Medal, Booker Prize, Nobel Prize, James Beard Award, and other major honors.    

We are committed to diversity in our company and our publishing programs, and to fostering a culture of inclusion for all our employees and authors. We are proud to be part of Hachette Livre, the world’s third-largest trade and educational publisher.    

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About Hachette UK: 

Our mission at Hachette UK is to make it easy for everyone to discover new worlds of ideas, learning, entertainment, and opportunity. 

We are one of the UK’s largest publishing groups and the market leader in e-books, with 12 autonomous divisions and over 50 imprints with a rich and diverse history. 

We publish thousands of new books across the group every year and our authors include Michael Connelly, Alice Oseman, John Grisham, Val McDermid, Stephen King, Stieg Larsson, Nelson Mandela, Stephenie Meyer, Ian Rankin, J.K. Rowling and Malala Yousafzai.

Our award-winning adult publishing divisions are Little, Brown, Orion, John Murray Press, Dialogue Books, Hodder & Stoughton, Headline, Quercus, Bookouture and Octopus. Hachette Children’s Group publishes a diverse range of books for children of all ages and Hodder Education is a market leader in resources for both primary and secondary schools. In 2022, we welcomed Paperblanks, the second-largest premium stationery brand in the world, to our group. 

We have offices around the UK, including our headquarters in London and the Hely Hutchinson Centre (HHC) for distribution in Didcot. We have subsidiaries in several other regions, including Australia, India, Ireland, Jamaica and New Zealand.

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In honor of Women’s History Month, we’re spotlighting just a few of our favorite empowering reads by, for, and about game-changing women. 

Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!

by Liza Minnelli

“A bombshell, jaw-dropping memoir”
—People Magazine

Global icon Liza Minnelli shares her inspiring story: stepping out from the long shadow of a mega-star mother and legendary film director father, fighting a lifetime battle with addiction, and emerging from it all to become a once-in-a-lifetime artist.

Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! is the autobiography of EGOT icon Liza Minnelli. This fascinating, untold story reveals the intimate truth of the only child born to Hollywood legends Vincente Minnelli and Judy Garland. For the first time, here is Liza up close: Raw, strong, sexy, hilarious and heartbreaking.

Liza decided at the age of 16  that “sympathy is my mother’s business. I give people joy.” That veil of joy, however, masks a lifelong struggle with Substance Use Disorder (“SUD,” which Liza inherited from her mother’s branch of her family), boundless love to give and an equal need to receive it, broken marriages, multiple miscarriages, and hospitalizations—the highs and lows of unparalleled artistic success and lifelong friendships, as well as chronic anxiety and the threat of financial ruin.  

Despite every challenge, Liza’s is a life wrapped in laughter and her tremendous capacity to give and receive love. Today at nearly 80, she opens her heart, mind and memories, sharing secrets we never knew. Liza’s book celebrates supreme artistry and, more importantly, her human rights activism.

“It’s time to tell the truth,” Liza says, “and help people heal, as I have, one day at a time.”   

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My Good Side

by Scheana Shay

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

An intimate memoir from Vanderpump Rules star Scheana Shay, delving into everything from the origin story of the iconic show, to her struggles with fertility and pregnancy loss, and the behind-the-scenes moments that were left on the cutting room floor.

Before eleven seasons of record-breaking TV, Scheana thought that signing on to the Real Housewives‘ spin-off show, Vanderpump Rules, was a stepping stone to reaching her ultimate goal of becoming a successful actress in Hollywood. But from the very first season, Vanderpump Rules pit Scheana against her fellow cast members. Barbs were thrown, friendships dissolved, and Scheana was left in the rubble trying to parse fact from fiction.

On camera, she got used to being called every name in the book, from homewrecker to a pick-me and bad friend. But off camera, there’s always been a different side of Scheana, pieces of her she couldn’t share on screen or that were trimmed out of tidy forty-minute television episodes.

In My Good Side, Scheana pulls back the layers of who she really is and shares all sides of her—the good, bad, and messy—bringing readers on a wild nostalgia trip through the early days of Vanderpump Rules, while recounting jaw-dropping stories from her Hollywood black book, including setting the record straight on her relationship with Eddie Cibrian. She reveals how her outlook on love has evolved and led her to a daughter she was told she may never have.

From being bullied as a kid to being bullied by the Witches of WeHo, Scheana has seen it all, and together she and her fans can laugh, cry, and reminisce on all the drama, heartbreak, and celebrations over the years.

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$29.00

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$39.00 CAD

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Softly, As I Leave You

by Priscilla Presley

With Mary Jane Ross

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
USA TODAY BESTSELLER

“A heartfelt record of stepping into one’s own.” —Publishers Weekly

The long-awaited memoir by Priscilla Presley chronicling her difficult, inspiring journey beyond the walls of Graceland and behind the elegant image the world sees.

Priscilla Presley’s divorce from Elvis left his fans incredulous. How could she leave the man every woman wanted? From the outside, life in Elvis’s mansion looked glamorous and enviable, and in many respects, it was. But inside the mansion, her husband was constantly surrounded by a male entourage while at the gates, lines of beautiful women waited hopefully for an audience with the King. From the time she was seventeen years-old, that life was all Priscilla had known. During her ten years with Elvis, it became painfully apparent that she had no idea who she was outside Elvis’s world. The only way to find herself was to leave that world and seek a new life of her own, because leaving was the only way to survive, for herself and for her daughter.

 Softly, As I Leave You, is the deeply personal story of what Priscilla lost and what she found when she walked away from the man she loved. Despite the legal separation, their love for one another transformed into a touching and tender dynamic that endured until Elvis’s untimely death four years later. Shattered by Elvis’s passing, she had to reinvent herself a second time as the single mother of a talented, often headstrong daughter who never really recovered from her father’s death. Priscilla’s dedication to motherhood was enriched by the birth of her second child, and she gradually found her footing as a businesswoman, actress, designer, and legislative advocate. She transformed Graceland into an international destination and helped guide the development of Elvis Presley Enterprises. But the unexpected, shattering loss of three immediate family members years later brought Priscilla to her knees. She shares her journey with a quiet dignity that will comfort and reassure anyone who has suffered – and survived – seemingly unbearable loss.

A passionate, compassionate, and inspiring story of finding your place in the world, Softly, As I Leave You, is a sweet Southern melody that will take the reader with Priscilla on her long road home.

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$32.00

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$42.00 CAD

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Even the Good Girls Will Cry

by Melissa Auf der Maur

A remarkably open-hearted, clear-eyed memoir of the ’90s Alternative era by the bassist of Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins.

Even the Good Girls Will Cry begins with Melissa Auf der Maur’s bohemian upbringing in Montreal, where her early, deep connection to art and music gave her entry to the colorful and thriving local creative scene. Working as a cassette DJ and ticket girl, she would see (and sometimes meet) the luminaries who’d pass through town—Nirvana, Jane’s Addiction, Pavement, Sonic Youth. Thanks to a thrown beer bottle and a long-shot fan letter to a PO Box, her band Tinker scored a life-changing opening slot for The Smashing Pumpkins and, sensing her natural talent on bass, Billy Corgan recommended her to Courtney Love, just one of the many uncanny threads that weaves destiny throughout this riveting memoir.

Whisked from her local scene and thrust into the eye of a hurricane of grief on a global stage, Melissa joined Hole for the band’s 1994 Live Through This world tour just after the deaths of Kurt Cobain and Hole’s prior bassist, Kristen Pfaff, with Courtney Love at the center of it all. It was a tour of passionate intensity, as a chaotic yet stunningly powerful band constantly threatened to spin out of control. Melissa brings the reader with raging intimacy into the action, offering a heroic portrait of the unforgettable Courtney Love as she howled into the darkness as if to keep grief at bay.

That was only the beginning of Melissa’s journey through alternative rock. Part rock memoir, part travel diary, part psychedelic scrapbook, Even the Good Girls Will Cry is a behind-the-scenes rock ’n’ roll memoir with a soulful intimacy and mystic undertone that sets it apart from memoirs by her peers. It is a vivid dispatch from the last analog decade, artistically capturing that bygone era in all its messy, angsty glory.

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$32.50

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The World of Nancy Kwan

by Nancy Kwan

With Deborah Davis

Foreword by Kevin Kwan

A Hollywood icon and Asian superstar shares the inspiring story of her groundbreaking career. 

When Nancy Kwan burst onto the scene in the early 1960s, Asian characters in film were portrayed by white actors in makeup playing “yellowface,” and those minor roles were the stuff of cliché: shopkeepers, maids, prostitutes, servants. When—against all odds—Nancy landed the lead role in the much-anticipated 1960 film The World of Suzie Wong, she became an international superstar and was celebrated for her beauty, grace, authenticity, and spunk: a “Chinese Garbo,” the “Asian Bardot.” From Hong Kong to London, Hollywood and beyond, The World of Nancy Kwan charts Nancy’s journey. The obstacles she faced, the prejudices she overcame, and how her success created paths for others.

Never allowing show business to change her, Kwan persevered in an industry where everything was stacked against her, breaking through barriers and becoming a beacon of hope to generations of Asians who aspired to be seen. The World of Nancy Kwan is a multi-faceted personal history of an iconic actress whose triumphant rise and resilience illuminates the broader history of Hollywood and how the only way forward is to stay true to oneself.  
 

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Cosmic Music

by Andy Beta

The first full-length biography of Alice Coltrane, the jazz musician and spiritual leader whose forward-thinking music was overshadowed by her more famous husband, even as she brilliantly laid the groundwork for the new age, ambient, and electronic music that would follow.
 
Alice Coltrane (1937-2007) was one of the most misunderstood artists of the last sixty years. For most of her life—and even in the decades since her passing—she was primarily known as the widow of the late John Coltrane. John Coltrane is widely seen as being one of the greatest tenor saxophonists and composers of the 20th century, with a fervor and devotion approaching sainthood. Yet ever so slowly, that level of love and appreciation is also being bestowed upon pianist, organist, harpist, and composer Alice Coltrane.
 
Cosmic Music: The Life, Art and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane is the first full biography of this remarkable, groundbreaking artist, and is an elegant, deeply researched corrective to the historical—and critical—record. It elevates Alice Coltrane to her proper place, both alongside her husband as one of the greatest musical visionaries of the 20th century, and also as a singular artist in Western music, one who became a spiritual leader in her lifetime.
 
In the years since her passing, she has become a great influence on a new generation of musicians, especially women, people of color, and artists who seek to combine jazz with other musical forms, be it modern classical, electronic, Indian music, and more. Cosmic Music also unearths previously unknown connections between Alice Coltrane and other generational icons, from Stevie Wonder, Carlos Santana, and Nina Simone to Mother Teresa and Doja Cat.
 
In Alice Coltrane’s music, one can perceive the transformation of Black American music in microcosm, the gospel roots giving rise to jazz and bebop, then intermingling with soul and R&B, and then onto rock, modern classical, psychedelia, and new age. Cosmic Music, based on extensive research and scores of new interviews by music journalist Andy Beta, is the definitive account of a visionary whose influence is only just beginning to be appreciated in full.
 
 

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Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office

by Lois P. Frankel, PhD

Since 2004, Dr. Lois P. Frankel’s New York Times bestseller has been an essential resource for women seeking advice and empowerment to stop sabotaging their careers and get ahead in the workplace. This completely updated and revised vital new 3rd edition is everything a modern working girl needs to get what she wants.

We’ve leaned in, we’ve girl bossed, we’ve untamed, and it’s still challenging to be a woman at work. Though the workplace looks different than it did twenty years ago, women still face considerable challenges that men do not.

In this new 3rd edition of Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office, Dr. Lois P. Frankel teaches you how to reject the “nice girl” mentality, which manifests as a distinctive set of behaviors learned in girlhood that ultimately sabotage you as an adult, and still exists in today’s modern workplace. Dr. Frankel provides tools and guidance for eliminating these unconscious mistakes that could be holding you back in your career. Mistakes such as:

Mistake #4: Believing Negative Self-Talk. Counter negative messages with positive ones. 
Mistake #26: Fear of Coming Across too Strong. Don’t dumb down, shut down, or tone down—be assertive! 
Mistake #55: Poor Boundaries. If you’re going to work from home, set boundaries.
Mistake #85: Doing Instead of Leading. Picking up others’ slack becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. 

You have the power to take control of your career without being controlling, to speak your mind while still being respected, and to chase your ambitions without fear or shame.

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Just One Word

by Erin Weed

Leadership coach Erin Weed shares her radical system for bringing your life, career, relationships, and communication into crystal-clear alignment.

Erin Weed is a coach and founder who has helped over 1,000 CEOs, entrepreneurs, artists, activists, truthseekers, and changemakers find clarity of purpose and chart a path forward—all with a simple method called The Dig. The Dig is a process of mining your life experiences to uncover your human operating system, a network of ideas and values that drive you. And in that system you’ll find your Dig Word: the one word that captures your essence and serves as a north star in every part of your life. This isn’t another complicated self-help system. It’s a way to distill your life purpose down to one word that guides you to your best life. In Just One Word, you’ll learn how to find your own Dig Word—and hear how a single word has changed the lives of dozens of Erin Weed’s clients.

You’ll also learn how your Dig Word

• reveals your life purpose and how to pursue it,

• explains how you operate,

• defines your personal brand;

• helps you engage more authentically in any situation;

• focuses and sharpens your message (even if you don’t think you have one),

• makes sense of conflict and strife in your life, and

• removes obstacles between where you are and where you want to be.

Can a single word really do all this? Yes, it can—and over 1,000 people have experienced newfound clarity and purpose through their Dig Words. And now, for the first time, you can experience the power of The Dig in your own home, at your own pace, with Just One Word.

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Hush

by Linda Clemons

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
LA TIMES BESTSELLER

Harness the power of silence and let your presence speak volumes. 
 
World-renowned body language expert Linda Clemons reveals how to harness nonverbal communication to project confidence, influence, and authority—without uttering a word.

Jack Canfield, bestselling author of Chicken Soup for the Soul says, “Read this book. Absorb its lessons. And watch how the world responds to you differently.“ Ryan Serhant, star of Netflix’s Owning Manhattan, calls Hush “A secret sales weapon that will make you sharper, bolder, and impossible to beat.”

Words matter but your body language speaks loud and clear without them. It’s what you’re not saying out loud that matters most. Take control of your body language to radiate confidence, exude warmth, and announce your power. 
 
Linda has trained top CEOs, sales teams, celebrities, and media leaders worldwide to master the silent signals that close deals and command respect. She coaches single people who want to learn the art of attraction, and anyone who needs to harness the enormous power of body language to get what they want and succeed at the highest levels.
 
Inside Hush, you will discover:

• The power of nonverbal cues—how a glance or gesture can speak volumes.
• Confidence on demand—posture, eye contact, and presence that make you magnetic.
• Strategies for success—from high-stakes negotiations to everyday social interactions.
• Practical, actionable advice—straight talk that transforms your influence instantly.

Whether you’re leading a boardroom, stepping onto a stage, or navigating a social situation, mastering body language is one of the most valuable skills you can develop—and there’s no one better to learn from than Linda Clemons.  

Hush shows you how to speak volumes… even in total silence.

 

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Joy Prescriptions

by Tiffany Moon, MD

NATIONAL BESTSELLER 

Doctor by day and Bravo’s Real Housewife by night, Tiffany Moon has a prescription for releasing perfectionism and finding joy! 

“A must-read for anyone seeking more balance, purpose, and joy at home and at work.” —Barbara Corcoran, Shark Tank real estate mogul and business expert

As a self-proclaimed “good girl,” Tiffany was a people pleaser and an A-student, fitting into the roles that were prescribed by her Chinese American family. As a lifelong overachiever, she accomplished a thriving career as an anesthesiologist. Yet Tiffany felt unfulfilled. She spent more time at work than at home with her family, didn’t know how to say “no” to anyone, and was governed by perfectionist standards. 

In Joy Prescriptions, Tiffany shares her journey to reconnect with herself. In order to feel whole, she had to drop the perfectionist trope and focus on rediscovering who she was. Tiffany abandoned other people’s expectations and ultimately discovered how to live for her true self. She put herself first and embraced more creativity and laughter. Taking surprising chances on herself, she started a candle business, starred on a reality TV series, tried her hand at stand-up comedy, and became a social media influencer.

Joy Prescriptions is a must-read if you want to add more spark and joy to your life. Tiffany offers a healthy dose of introspection and healing that will release you from the constrained expectations of others and inspire you to design a joyful life that is more authentically you!

“Tiffany’s hard-earned wisdom and heartfelt stories remind us that true wealth is all about creating a life that feels rich in every way.” —Vivian Tu, New York Times bestselling author of Rich AF

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Adult Braces

by Lindy West

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER

In New York Times bestselling author Lindy West’s ambitious memoir, she brings readers along on an uproarious cross-country road trip as she unpacks her last few tumultuous years, rediscovers herself, and reinvents her marriage in the process.
 
Through Shrill—the book and then the Hulu series—Lindy West became an inspiration. To this day she is stopped on the street and hailed as a beacon of empowerment by women who felt badly for not conforming to a narrow set of societal norms—thin, straight, compliant. But behind the scenes, Lindy never felt like she was the self-actualized woman fans made her out to be. When she found herself in the throes of a deep depression, with her marriage and sense of self-worth hanging in the balance, she knew she needed to make a change.  
 
In Adult Braces, Lindy shares the story of her rock bottom, and of the journey she took to claw her way out of it. With her trademark candor and sense of humor, she examines her post-Shrill emotional implosion, her shifting feelings about traditional marriage, and her search for her long-lost self. She also tracks the highs and lows of her journey, from eye-opening natural wonders and kitschy roadside attractions to lackluster tourist traps and campground epiphanies.
 
The result is an engaging and laugh-out-loud narrative of becoming as Lindy transforms from a passenger into the active navigator of her own life.
 
 

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Never Ask for the Sale

by Sue Heilbronner

Foreword by Brad Feld

A tech leader and executive coach’s actionable guide for anyone looking to supercharge their selling prowess and close the deal with authenticity and integrity. 

Sue Heilbronner launched an executive coaching, facilitation, and speaking solo entrepreneurial venture which grew from zero to $1 million in annual revenue in six years. Now, she offers her insight into salespersonship in an irreverent, direct, and actionable guide to success in sales.

Never Ask For The Sale goes beyond simple tips, and influences the reader’s overall understanding of selling. Sue Heilbronner shares decades of experience, stories, tools, and exercises to coach people to be more successful at achieving their goals by aligning their work with their greatest strengths, and marketing that cohesive story with a winning sales strategy: passionate ambivalence. Heilbronner introduces this concept as the strategic yet honest practice of presenting oneself as selective in the work they take on while enthusiastic about their area of expertise.

At the heart of the book is the notion that any successful seller, in any context, is fantastic at selling themself—whether that is within services in a solopreneur business, an early-stage startup, a college application, or a nonprofit mission. Never Ask For The Sale prompts deep self-awareness admixed with highly pragmatic calls to action at the intersection of coaching, personal growth, conscious leadership, and sales.

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Only Say Good Things

by Crystal Hefner

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • AN APPLE BOOKS STAFF PICK AND AUDIBLE EDITORS SELECT• ONE OF PEOPLE’S BEST CELEBRITY MEMOIRS OF 2024 • NAMED A BEST BOOK TO READ THIS JANUARY BY THE GLOSS 

From a former Playboy Playmate, an unflinching look at the objectification and misogyny of the Playboy mansion, a woman’s stolen young adulthood, and her journey to self-acceptance–plus a rare look inside Hugh Hefner’s final days.

Crystal Harris’ life changed forever when she was just twenty-one and attended a party at the notorious Playboy mansion. Picked out of the crowd by Hugh Hefner, Crystal Harris became one of his infamous “girlfriends,” attending glamorous Hollywood parties and traveling the world. But being Hef’s number one girlfriend came at the cost of Crystal’s identity outside her role in the Playboy universe, and she grew increasingly restless to understand who she truly was away from what she saw as Playboy’s toxic culture. Hef controlled his girlfriends with strict rules regarding everything from their hair and makeup to their curfews, forcing them to compete with one another as part of a highly hierarchal system. 

Only Say Good Things provides a fascinating look behind the scenes at a powerful cultural icon and brand, and an empowering perspective on hard-won lessons about who we allow to determine our value.
 

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Playing a New Game

by Tammy Lewis Wilborn, PhD, PhD

Drawing on first-hand clinical insight and scientific research, this guide book offers advice on how women of color can be high-performing and successful professionally, without sacrificing their physical, mental, and emotional wellness—a “must-have for Black women” (LaTonya Summers, PhD LMHC LCMHC-S).

Black and brown women have been making profound strides in leadership and professional achievement, despite facing the added hurdles of both sexism and racism in the workplace. But so often, excelling at work comes at the expense of their wellness. The chronic stressors and demands on Black women can result in negative physical health outcomes such as sleep disturbance, hypertension, diabetes, and negative mental health outcomes including anxiety and depression. We cannot talk about career advancement for Black and brown women without talking about strategies that promote their total wellbeing.

Playing a New Game offers women a new way forward, in which ambition and wellness can not only coexist, but bolster each other. With insights from her 20 years of professional counseling experience and extensive research, mental health expert Dr. Tammy Wilborn expands the dialogue on BIPOC womens’ experiences of race and gender stereotypes at work, exploring them as a wellness issue.  

Through her evidence-based best practices that promote self-care and self-empowerment as necessary tools for professional success, Black and brown women can flip the script by prioritizing their wellness even as they advance professionally. 

Now available in paperback!

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How to Menopause

by Tamsen Fadal

Foreword by Lisa Mosconi, PhD

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • USA TODAY BESTSELLER • PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY BESTSELLER • Next Big Idea Club Must Read Book 

EXPERT-DRIVEN, GIRLFRIEND-APPROVED • The perimenopause and menopause manual that cuts through the chaos so you can take back control of your body, your confidence, and your life—from Emmy award-winning journalist, documentary filmmaker, and social media powerhouse Tamsen Fadal.

If you’re ready to feel like yourself again, this book is “the talk” you never had.

Packed with actionable steps and evidence-based tools from a team of 42 experts including neuroscientists, menopause-certified physicians, sex and relationship therapists, sleep doctors, and a variety of lifestyle mentors, and synthesizing research, stories, and strategies in a way that only a journalist can, Tamsen Fadal helps you

• be your best advocate in a medical system not designed to treat women in midlife;
• understand the options that tame your symptoms, whether it’s hormone therapy, supplements, or lifestyle changes;
• implement science-backed strategies to get the best sleep of your life;
• be able to talk to your partner about sex, low libido, painful intercourse, or how your hormones might be impacting your relationship;
• embrace your style (hair, makeup, clothes) to match your changing body;
• learn simple workouts, skincare tips, and delicious recipes to deal with belly fat, dry skin, and hair loss (and don’t worry, it’s not all kale salads);
• navigate menopause in the workplace—and much, much more.

How to Menopause answers all the questions you didn’t know to ask, and brings you into a conversation with millions of other women. Together, we can embrace a stronger, sexier self at every stage of midlife–from perimenopause through menopause and into our “bolden” years.

“How to Menopause is more than just advice—it provides a lifeline. Through her honesty, humor, research, and relentless commitment to women’s health, Tamsen Fadal has created a guide that is both practical and deeply personal. Whether you’re just beginning to experience perimenopause or well into this transition, these words will leave you feeling more confident, more informed, and most importantly—never alone.” —Lisa Mosconi, PhD, New York Times bestselling author of The Menopause Brain

“For all of those millions of women out there, struggling with learning how to deal with menopause, Tamsen Fadal has written the menopause Bible! Ladies you will see yourself reflected in page after page. You will no longer feel alone by being 100% seen. It’s also full of ways to begin managing this new glorious phase of life!” – Halle Berry
 

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Tell Me Where It Hurts

by Rachel Zoffness, Ph.D

Leading pain expert Dr. Rachel Zoffness bridges the gap between medicine and psychology to get to the heart of understanding—and treating—pain—it’s The Body Keeps the Score for chronic pain.

Every one of us will experience pain, be it back pain, the pain of childbirth, or living in an aging body. Not a single one of us will escape. But what if everything you thought you knew about pain was … wrong?  

We’ve been told that pain is purely physical, something to do just with bones and body parts. The truth is that pain is constructed by the brain—influenced not just by injuries, but also by emotions, expectations, and environment. This means you have infinitely more control over pain than you ever imagined: because if the brain can change, pain can change.   

Rooted in cutting-edge neuroscience and rich patient stories, Dr. Rachel Zoffness completely upends the myths we’ve been sold—finally reconnecting physical and emotional pain, and providing a roadmap for healing. The fact is that chronic pain is treatable. But to do that, we must target the whole person—not just a body part.

A groundbreaking, revolutionary book that finally offers access to the world’s most powerful painkiller: YOU.

“This book is a must read for anyone struggling with chronic pain. Filled with moving stories and the latest science, Zoffness explains how pain works and why so many treatments fall short. Her message is ultimately a hopeful one: By changing our brains we can lessen our pain. I highly recommend.” ―Anna Lembke, MD, Professor and Medical Director, Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic, Stanford University, New York Times bestselling author of Dopamine Nation

“In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Zoffness dismantles outdated myths about pain and brilliantly reveals new ways to overcome it. Filled with the latest science, this is a must read for both doctors and patients, and frankly anyone grappling with chronic pain.” ―William W. Li, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Eat To Beat Disease, former faculty at Harvard Medical School

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The Perimenopause Survival Guide

by Heather Hirsch

Foreword by Avrum Bluming

Dr. Heather Hirsch, renowned founder of the Menopause Clinic at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and featured expert on Oprah Winfrey’s The Life You Want series, offers a groundbreaking, expert-led guide to not only navigate—but truly thrive—through perimenopause.

Perimenopause, the transitional phase before menopause, can feel like one of the most disorienting and unspoken chapters in a woman’s life. From hot flashes and brain fog to anxiety, back pain, and sleep disruption, the symptoms are real, but the guidance often isn’t. Too many women between the ages of 35 and 50 find themselves confused, dismissed, or unsupported by their providers.

The Perimenopause Survival Guide is a clear, compassionate, and evidence-based resource from one of the most trusted voices in women’s hormonal health. Dr. Heather Hirsch draws on her years of clinical experience to help women understand what’s happening in their bodies, and how to take charge of their care.
In this essential guide, you’ll learn:

• What’s really driving your symptoms and how to decode them
• Proven, FDA-approved treatment options—plus how to evaluate what’s right for you
• The importance of managing perimenopause now for long-term health
• How to advocate for yourself and build a care plan around your individual needs and goals

Whether you’re just starting to notice subtle changes or already deep in the hormonal rollercoaster, The Perimenopause Survival Guide empowers you with clarity, confidence, and the tools to feel like yourself again.

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The Bedroom Gap

by Maria Sophocles, MD

A powerful, long-overdue exploration of the silent struggles women face in midlife around intimacy, identity, and inequality.
 ―Dr. Mary Claire Haver, New York Times bestselling author The New Menopause

A roadmap for midlife women, couples, clinicians and anyone wanting to understand—and change—the societal, historical and physiological effects of our Sexspan.

Sex in midlife can be a bumpy road, especially for women. Our bodies change with age, and those changes can lead to shame, confusion, and the loss of intimacy. The Bedroom Gap shows us how society developed destined-to-fail gender roles and expectations in the bedroom and makes clear how we can level the playing field between midlife men and women.

This groundbreaking yet easily accessible guide not only clarifies the physical changes of menopause and how they affect sex in midlife, it also details how we can treat those changes, reframe our views on pleasure and desire, narrow the discrepancy in sexual functioning between middle age men and women, and optimize sexual pleasure after 40.

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$39.00 CAD

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Waiting for Dawn

by Marisa Renee Lee

A bestselling author reveals how to prioritize and care for yourself when uncomfortable change is thrust upon you.
 
Lee guides you through the hard times that arise unexpectedly and disrupt your life for indeterminate periods. Uncertainty and fear impact how you interact with the world and understand your place in it. You manage the loneliness and isolation by convincing others that you are fine. Lee debunks the idea that you must force positivity and, instead, helps you learn how to hold compassion for yourself in hard times.
 
Through rich, revelatory prose, Lee assists you in navigating life’s unstable and overwhelming moments. Using research and her personal experiences, she argues that self-preservation is necessary when life is at its worst. If you are experiencing pain, chronic stress, or loneliness or are burdened with self-doubt, Waiting for Dawn brings you from a place of instability to hope. Lee shares her two-year journey battling loss and illness—the death of her mother-in-law, ongoing sickness, and the emotional challenges she endured—that taught her that healing is about finding your own unique way through the darkness.
 
Waiting for Dawn provides a compass to help you rediscover your worth and identify how to live well. These dark periods are necessary for things to grow and transform, but it never stays dark forever.  
 
“Waiting for Dawn is nothing short of a miracle and just what we need right now in our current moment. When times seem to drag us into a grey mist that we don’t know how to navigate out of, her words push us to find our own paths forward into a clear understanding of what we need to feel better and more at ease.” ―Maggie Smith, New York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful

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$28.00

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Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Book

by Susan M. Love, MD

With Elizabeth Love

The “Bible” (New York Times) and the “seminal work” (LA Times) offering the most authoritative guidance through all stages of breast cancer diagnosis and recovery, fully revised and updated.
 

While the amount of information regarding a breast cancer diagnosis is vaster than ever, online and off, what continues to be missing is the explanation behind the options. Most of the data online on medical sites is generic and often comes from the same source. Then there are the patient sites as well as many social media outlets that provide peer to peer support and information. This is important for emotional support but still leaves out the full range of options and the reasons for them. The Breast Book is where people go for a deeper understanding of how to make the best possible choices for their particular situations. Now in its seventh edition, the Breast Book has been fully revised to incorporate all the most recent developments in prevention, treatments and research. This new edition covers: 

• New treatments: including new drugs, vaccines, hormonal treatment and drugs with longer duration (10 years) for the estrogen positive tumors
• The increasing focus on where cells live, both locally (immune system, hormones, etc.) and systemically (stress, etc.)
• Prevention: several new drugs have been added to the list of chemoprevention drugs. In addition, preventative surgery has received increased attention.
• Increased data on “alternative” approaches such as stress reduction and exercise in reducing recurrence.
• Increased understanding of the immune system and how it either controls or promotes the cancer.
• Risks for survivors
• Genetics
• Special groups: Men with breast cancer are demanding a louder voice in the conversation and research.

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$33.00 CAD

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Mothering the Mother

by Shafia Monroe

Foreword by Erykah Badu

“A comprehensive exploration of postpartum traditions that emphasize the importance of nurturing mothers during their most vulnerable times. From traditional recipes to rituals, this book highlights sisterhood and the need for comprehensive care that honors both the mother and the newborn.”
―from the foreword by Erykah Badu, five-time GRAMMY Award Winner, singer/songwriter, and holistic healer

As a mother, grandmother, and traditional midwife, Shafia M. Monroe intimately knows about childbirth and the fourth trimester. For over forty years, she’s helped thousands give birth, and has taught thousands more how to support birthing parents, all integrating the deep wisdom of African American healing traditions. Long suppressed by the white medical establishment, these practices—such as belly binding, heat, herbs, the lying‑in period, and the “taking‑out‑of‑bed ritual”—are powerful healing tools. Using them, we mother the mother through a healthy postpartum period.

While this framework will be powerful healing for all mothers, the information in this book can save Black mothers’ lives; with African American women disproportionately suffering from maternal mortality and morbidity, there is an urgent need for an embrace of African American postpartum care that surrounds the new mother and her baby with community, love, and protection. Mothering the Mother is a resource for Black women and communities to reclaim their cultural traditions for a healthy postpartum recuperation.

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Last Call at the Savoy

by Brisa Carleton

Set amongst the glittering backdrop of London’s iconic Savoy hotel, a young woman is forced to confront her troubled past as she uncovers the story of the hotel’s first female bartender who has been erased from the history books—”an exhilarating, tender read that will leave you smiling” (Fiona Davis, bestselling author).
 
Six years ago, Cinnamon Scott was a young writer on the rise in New York City. But since the sudden loss of her parents, she’s been stuck in place, retreating to a life of endless partying—made possible by the massive fortune she’s inherited. Despite their tragic loss, she and her older sister Rosemary have always had each other to lean on. But now, with Rosie living in London and about to give birth to twins, Cinnamon feels more lost than ever.

When Rosie is put on bedrest, Cinnamon flies to her sister’s side, where she’s temporarily living at The Savoy. Immediately swept away by the beauty and history of the legendary hotel and its famed American Bar, Cinnamon finds ample opportunity to distract herself. When the late shift bartender tells her the story of Ada Coleman, the woman who crafted the cocktail recipes The Savoy popularized in its famous handbook a century ago, Cinnamon is inspired by the bartender’s vivid stories of Ada’s fearlessness and can’t understand why Ada’s name is nowhere to be found.

After meeting a handsome historian researching the hotel and realizing that Ada is likely to be once again overlooked, Cinnamon must decide if she can overcome her demons and stand up for Ada’s story. And, along the way, she might just save her own story too.
 

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Blonde Dust

by Tatiana de Rosnay

A heartfelt Hollywood tale about a reimagined friendship between Marilyn Monroe and a young maid whose life will be changed forever, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sarah’s Key.
 
“A lovely portrait of female friendship, loss, and the unexpected ways in which a life can change. Haunting.” —Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Women
 
Pauline, a young chambermaid who works at the legendary Mapes Hotel in Reno, Nevada, is asked to step in for a colleague and clean Suite 614. Although she was told the rooms were empty, a dazed, sleepy woman appears before her. This is Mrs. Miller, aka Marilyn Monroe, whose stay in Reno coincides with the breakdown of her marriage to Arthur Miller and the filming of what was to be her last film, The Misfits.  
 
Set in the American West in 1960 where the mustang horses run wild, an unexpected friendship unfolds between the most famous movie star in the world and a young cleaning woman whose life will be changed forever through the course of a few weeks. A testament to the enduring power of female friendship and a reimagining of a side of Marilyn Monroe that has never been seen before.
 
“Tatiana De Rosnay is a master craftsman who brings characters to life in real worlds. With her keen eye for detail and with great emotional sweep, de Rosnay captures the American west, the fragility and humor of Monroe, and the unforgettable friendship the star forges with Pauline. This is a Hollywood tale with heart.” ―Adriana Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author of The View from Lake Como

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The Woman in Red

by Diana Giovinazzo

Experience the “epic tale of one woman’s fight . . . to create the life of her dreams” in this sweeping novel of Anita Garibaldi, a 19th century Brazilian revolutionary who loved as fiercely as she fought for freedom (Adriana Trigiani).

Destiny toys with us all, but Anita Garibaldi is a force to be reckoned with. Forced into marriage at a young age, Anita feels trapped in a union she does not want. But when she meets the leader of the Brazilian resistance, Giuseppe Garibaldi, in 1839, everything changes.

Swept into a passionate affair with the idolized mercenary, Anita’s life is suddenly consumed by the plight to liberate Southern Brazil from Portugal—a struggle that would cost thousands of lives and span almost ten bloody years. Little did she know that this first taste of revolution would lead her to cross oceans, traverse continents, and alter the course of her entire life—and the world.

At once an exhilarating adventure and an unforgettable love story, The Woman in Red is a sweeping, illuminating tale of the feminist icon who became one of the most revered historical figures of South America and Italy.

 

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Antoinette’s Sister

by Diana Giovinazzo

As Marie Antoinette took her last breath as Queen of France in Paris, another formidable monarch—Antoinette’s dearly beloved sister, Charlotte—was hundreds of miles away, in Naples, fighting desperately to secure her release from the revolutionaries who would take her life. Little did Charlotte know, however, that her sister’s execution would change the course of history—and bring about the end of her own empire.

A Pennie’s Pick book club selection.
 
“You are the queen. You are the queen that Antoinette wanted to be.”
 
Austria 1767: Maria Carolina Charlotte—tenth daughter and one of sixteen children of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria—knows her position as a Habsburg archduchess will inevitably force her to leave her home, her family, and her cherished sister, Antoinette, whose companionship she values over all else. But not yet. The Habsburg family is celebrating a great triumph: Charlotte’s older sister, Josepha, has been promised to King Ferdinand IV of Naples and will soon take her place as queen. Before she can journey to her new home, however, tragedy strikes. After visiting the family crypt, Josepha contracts smallpox and dies. Shocked, Charlotte is forced to face an unthinkable new reality: she must now marry Ferdinand in her sister’s stead.
 
Bereft and alone, Charlotte finds that her life in Naples is more complicated than she could ever have imagined. Ferdinand is weak and feckless, and a disastrous wedding night plunges her into despair. Her husband’s regent, Tanucci, a controlling and power-hungry man, has pushed the country to the brink of ruin. Overwhelmed, she asks her brother Leopold, now the Holy Roman Emperor, to send help—which he does in the form of John Acton, a handsome military man twenty years Charlotte’s senior who is tasked with overseeing the Navy. Now, Charlotte must gather the strength to do what her mother did before her: take control of a country.
 
In a time of political uprisings and royal executions and with the increasingly desperate crisis her favorite sister, Queen Marie Antoinette, is facing in France, how is a young monarch to keep hold of everything—and everyone—she loves? Find out in this sweeping, luxurious tale of family, court intrigue, and power.

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[Mitch had] only tugged off his boots before a ping notified him of an incoming text.  It instructed that if he wanted to confirm an appointment with Dr. Dylan Reede for ten a.m. tomorrow, he was to reply with a capital letter cee.

            Mitch was the only person in the waiting room except for the receptionist who’d introduced herself as Ellie.  She had a kindhearted, maternal aspect and was almost apologetic when she’d asked him to fill out the required forms, which were numerous and, to his way of thinking, irrelevant. 

            Ellie had informed him that Dr. Reede was still with another patient.  She’d invited him to take a seat and told him that the doctor would be with him shortly.

            But “shortly” wasn’t short enough. He was thinking of removing his sport jacket when Ellie slid open the window.  “The doctor is ready to see you now, Mr. Haskell.  Right through there.”  She indicated a closed door on the opposite side of the waiting room.  “She’s waiting for you.”

            He was arrested in the motion of standing up.  “She?”

            Just then the door was pushed open and a woman emerged.  She smiled and came toward to him, right hand extended.  “Mr. Haskell?  Dylan Reede.”

            Holy shit.  He croaked, “Are you kidding?” 

            Maintaining her smile and keeping her hand outstretched, she replied, “Not about my name.”

            He stared down at her hand as though uncertain what it was and what function it served, then gave it a quick shake and let immediately go.

            “Come on back.”  She turned away and started for the door she’d left standing open. 

            As though Ellie had used her sweet demeanor to deliberately deceive him, he shot her a dirty look over his shoulder.  Her expression turned wary, although he couldn’t tell if her concern was for him or the psychologist...the one with the beguiling smoky gray eyes and prima ballerina legs.

             “Lieutenant Bowie told me that you got sober and stayed sober for six months.”

            “Um-huh.”

            “Until last Saturday night when you suffered a relapse.”

            “Relapse?  That’s a nice way of putting it.”

            “Bowie believes it was prompted by the date.”

            He chewed the inside of his cheek, saying nothing.  Immediately after realizing that he was jiggling his knee, he forced it to be still. 

            Softly she asked if he would like some water and motioned toward the bottles on the end table.  “No thanks.”  Then, “There’s not a clock in here.  Is that on purpose?  How much time is left?”

            “Don’t worry about the time,” she said.  “Is Bowie wrong about the anniversary date contributing to the episode last week?”

            “I can say anything I want to, right?”

            “Yes.”

            “I can also sit here like a stump and say nothing at all, right?”

            “Yes.  But sitting here in hostile silence wouldn’t be very helpful.”

            “Not helpful to you.  But my hostile silence could be just the therapy I need.”  He stood, picked up his jacket, and pulled it on.  “I don’t think you and I would ever be a good fit.”  He came this close – this close –  to adding a sexual context to that, but thought better of it.  “It’s been nice knowing you, but I’m outta here, and I ain’t coming back.”

            She had stood up along with him.  “I wish you would reconsider.”

            “I’ll bet you do.  You’ll miss out on a paying gig.  The mandated  sessions with me could really add up.  Let’s see, two a week for six weeks.”  He started counting on his fingers.  “That’s – ”

            “Mitch,” she said in a chastening tone.  “Insulting me is no more effective than wisecracking.  Please think about – ”

            “I’ll tell you what you should think about, doc.  If you’re getting men in this cozy little nook of yours with all the throw pillows, you really should consider wearing sensible shoes, a longer skirt, an ill-fitting cardigan, and a different face.”

            She gave him a chastening look.  “Sorry, that tactic doesn’t work on me.”  She waited for a beat, then said, “Let’s sit back down and talk calmly and reasonably.  Because if you refuse these sessions, Lieutenant Bowie – ”

            “Bowie can go –   Read my mind.”

            “We don’t have to address the hard subjects until you’re ready to.  We can start with – ”

            “My birth?  Childhood?  The loss of my virginity?  Work up from there to last Saturday night and my fall from Saint John’s grace?”

            “I have this same time on Thursday morning reserved for you.  Please be here.”

            “Sorry.  Can’t make it.”

            “Then we’ll work around your schedule.  I’ll see you any time you say.”

            The quip he had planned to say died on his lips.  Instead, he jerked his head back and gave her a long, measuring look.  “No,” he drawled, “I don’t think you will.  See me as a patient, that is.  In fact, I can guarantee that you won’t.” 

            His reached out and curved his hand around the back of her neck.  Pulling her forward and up to him, he kissed her.  Swiftly but with impact.  Then he released her just as suddenly. 

            Holding her wide, disbelieving gaze, he smiled and dabbed at a damp spot on his lower lip with the back of his hand.  “As rules of doctor/patient conduct go, that’s a real no-no, isn’t it, Dr. Reede?  Ergo, we’re done.”

            Then he went over and opened the door into the waiting room.  “Screw the escape hatch.  I’ll go out the way I came in.”

Excerpted from BLOODLUST. Copyright © 2026 Sandra Brown published by Grand Central Publishing, a Hachette Book Group company. All rights reserved.

The pain was on both sides—an electric stab if I bit down on certain molars. Chewing had become a series of jump scares. Is this fun-size Milky Way going to send a bolt of lightning straight to my bunghole? What about this one? In the summer of 2020, reduced to nibbling in the front like a little weasel, I ran to my cool Gen X rock and roll dentist, Dr. Nikole, and begged for help.

I never used to have dental anxiety. My childhood dentist was lanky and twinkly eyed with a soft-spoken Scandinavian Zen that reminded me of my family in the old country. The dentist’s spitfire wife ran the office and would give me little toys and gossip with my mom. I remember my dad always reassuring me, as an endorsement of this dentist’s gentleness, “He has never hurt me.” It wasn’t that reassuring! Did some dentists HURT YOU? What the fuck?! But I did trust my dentist, and it was true, he never hurt me at all. I also never had a cavity (until my early twenties, when I suddenly had a bunch¹), and my dentist said I had the most “perfect teeth” he had ever seen. He said it all the time. Perfect teeth. Wow, such beautiful, perfect teeth.

He probably said that to lots of kids, to be nice, but at the time, I imagined that it really made my dentist’s day when he saw these chompers on the agenda. Like when a piano player gets to play the finest Steinway concert grand.

I wasn’t the kind of girl who heard “perfect” a lot as an assessment of her body, so I clung to it. Not just good teeth but perfect ones. No braces needed for this perfect tooth model. No retainer, no headgear, not me! They just came out like this! Must have something to do with my perfect skull and beautiful soul! PLEASE KISS ME, JUST ANY BOY PLEASE PLEASE KISS ME I AM BEGGING YOU.

My dentist retired when I was in my twenties and he was in his eighties. I looked up his obituary while writing this and discovered he only just died in 2024, at age 107. Another patient in the comments on his memorial page called him an “iconic dentist.” Amen, brother!

Extremely uniconically, some random fucking guy took over his practice. Not having the first clue how to pick out a new dentist, as my family had been dentisted upon by the same man since the Nixon administration, I stayed. The first time I had to get a filling from the new guy, Dr. Glover, he drilled my tooth without fully anesthetizing it, didn’t believe me when I gasped that it wasn’t numb, and then told me I was being “hysterical” (literally!) when I started sobbing. He drilled my sensate pulp while I struggled to keep my panic attack as still as possible. He drilled until he was done.

A few months later, Aham and I were stopped at a light downtown near our dental office, and a dirty and disheveled man crossed the street in front of us talking to himself and swearing and arguing with no one. In our family, we call that “having a hard time.” And this guy having a hard time? OUR FUCKING DENTIST. Not some dentist we once knew, but our present-day, actively practicing dentist. Not who you hope to see having a hard time in Westlake Park! (Also, later, when I first went to see Dr. Nikole, she looked at that guy’s treatment plan and said he seemed to have marked teeth for drilling where there were no cavities! I was rudely being dental-tortured by a demon² befouling Dr. Childhood Dentist’s sacred space!!!)

So anyway, I didn’t used to have dental trauma and anxiety, but now I do, and that’s why I sought out Dr. Nikole. She listens to me (!!!!!) and gives me gases and lets me play my little audiobooks and prescribes me Ativan for bigger procedures, and if you’re still being drilled by a man, have you considered a woman? It’s 2026! Fire all men from all jobs!

When I told her my teeth were hurting, Dr. Nikole looked at my x-rays and discovered that my molars had a bunch of big cracks in them. I was like, “Great! Sounds like an easy fix! Gorilla-glue those bad boys up so I can be on my milky way!” And she said no—that’s actually not how cracked teeth work. You just kind of have to have them until they get so bad that you need a crown or your tooth crumbles into dust and blows away. Sorry!

The reason my teeth were all cracked, she explained, was that I had developed what’s called a crossbite. That’s where your jaw shifts (from, say, stress-clenching and misery-grinding in one’s sleep) and your molars no longer fit together snugly like LEGO bricks; they clack together violently like twelve otters smashing twelve clams on twelve rocks. The only solution for this, she said, was orthodonture.

Adult braces.

Me???????? But I literally have the greatest natural mouth of all time! Check those x-rays again, lady! You must have gotten them mixed up with A DOG.

But of course, the problem was real, and of course, I was going to fix it, seeing as the alternative was a not-particularly-appealing two-phase plan consisting of Phase One: Operation Pain and Phase Two: Operation No Teeth Anymore. I made an appointment with the orthodontist she recommended.

Orthodontists are the plastic surgeons of dentists, and I don’t mean in terms of what they do—although I suppose there is a parallel—I mean in terms of vibes. My orthodontists, a married couple straight outta Melrose Place, run a braces empire stretching across the greater Seattle area. Their office is spangled with framed glossy magazine covers (from, idk, Mouth Magazine??) in which they pose like TOOTH ROYALTY, shiny hair and shark bites and power suits and erotic chemistry and $$$$$$$ energy. My braces cost around $7,000 with a minimum of $1,500 down. The place is always packed, with the barreling, angry efficiency of a trading floor. You feel not so much like a customer as a product on an assembly line.

I arrived and was swept into a chair, where one of their assistants assessed my situation at breakneck speed without saying hi or hello, ma’am or how are you or don’t worry this won’t hurt a bit. He was, weirdly, French, and my fatty alarm told me instantly that this guy did not j’adore fat people. He strode over to the 360-degree x-ray machine—me jogging to keep up—and, without saying a word or even making eye contact, stuck a plastic bit in my mouth to position my head like a cart horse. He then switched on the machine, which went WHIIIIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR and started attacking me!

Excusez-moi! Excusez-moi! Hold vos chevaux, monsieur!!!!!! ARRÊTÉ! CREVÈ!!!

This machine is like a huge gyroscope where you stand in the middle, and metal arms whirl around your head and shoulders and pump you full of beams so they can make a copy of your head. I don’t know how to convey the magnitude, but it’s scary! It is an industrial machine. It is inexorable. You cannot stop it. It could easily break your bones if you stuck an arm out at the wrong time. And this Frenchman had just tossed me in there without a fair warning or, as far as I could tell, recalibrating the machine that was used all day every day on the bodies of little, tiny kids. And I am a big, large woman!

The machine began its business and whacked me about the shoulders with its metal arms. I was paying $7,000 to be attacked by a robot. I said, “This is hitting my shoulders!” and he said, “Hold still, please,” and I said, “PLEASE, MONSIEUR, IT’S HITTING MY BODY,” and he said, “[EXASPERATED SIGH] Drop your shoulders.” The shoulders—at least in les États-Unis—are attached to the body in a frustratingly permanent way. These bad boys were already as low as they could go. But François didn’t care—he ran the machine till it was done and let it whack me over and over and luckily it didn’t hurt too much or permanently disfigure me and I guess that’s the best fat people can expect from the French!

Then we STEEPLECHASED back to the chair and François glued my brackets on with the reckless abandon of a Double Dare contestant, adding: “You will want to stick to soft foods for ze first few weeks. Like . . . [looking me up and down] per’aps salades.” Famously, the softest of all foods!

And then he was gone. They drop-kicked me out the door to make room for the next 150 kids they had lined up that day (150 x $7,000 = $1,050,000???????). And then I had adult braces.

I’ve always had a shaky relationship with self-confidence, and in my callow twenties, I was a real bitch about adult braces. Not like I publicly bullied people who had them or anything, but I remember thinking that I absolutely, under no circumstances, could ever subject myself to anything that humiliating. Which is so condescending! Filing someone else’s state under “humiliating” implies that they have something to be humiliated about, whether they feel humiliated by it or not. It’s exactly what people do to me for being fat. This is no excuse, but every accusation is a confession, and at the time, I felt very much like an overgrown, sexless child that everyone was laughing at. I’m sorry!

So maybe it was karmically appropriate—a real Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle moment—that, rounding the corner into forty, I wound up getting braces myself. And not an elegant, gossamer Invisalign tray, either. Full metal train tracks, welded on. Because if there’s one thing I’m even more certain of than my own ugliness, it’s my incompetence and low moral fiber. There was no fucking chance in Leopold II of Belgium’s red hell that I was going to keep an Invisalign tray in twenty- three hours a day, because unfortunately, I loooooooove low-stakes cheating. I love to treat myself to the indulgent thing instead of powering through the hard thing. And it’s not like Invisalign is cheaper than the metal guys! I’d still be out $7,000, and my teeth would still be fucked. No thanks! Strap ’em on me, John Henry!

This was early COVID, so we were deep in Mask Culture. There wasn’t even a vaccine yet. Everyone told me the same thing: It wasn’t a bad time to get adult braces, as times to get adult braces go. But society didn’t seem to understand that there was no good time for Lindy West to get adult braces. I was hanging on to sanity by a thread and these thirty-two little STRAIGHT WHITE MEN (all teeth are boys) had conspired to take away the one thing that wasn’t wrong with me—my “perfect teeth.” I hated it and I cried.

Now, “I’m embawassed to get adult bwaces” is America’s #1 Next Top Champagne Problem to be sure. The actually bad version of this story would be me not being able to afford adult braces and all my teeth cracking in half and falling out. I am indescribably fortunate to have been able to save my teeth, and I have to acknowledge that many people literally cannot do the things necessary to break out of harmful cycles, because they have to work and they have to take care of kids and they are just so tired, not to mention structurally held back by our “free” country. Unfortunately, I don’t exactly have an answer to the evils of capitalism. I’m sorry again as usual!

It would take a year before I had enough perspective to see the metaphor. We think of our teeth as something fixed in place, a part of the skull, crooked or straight, but they’re not. Our teeth are floating, each loose and alone in tissue, and we can shift and change them if we want to, bring them closer together or push them apart, if we’re willing to move through the pain of it, if we’re willing to be a little vulnerable, to look a little childish.

For many years, I thought my life was fixed in place, painful but immovable. I felt as though I had turned to stone, still and helpless, both physically and emotionally, slowly cracking while the world glided on without me. I took pride in my ability to weather any amount of discomfort to preserve the familiar and avoid humiliation. But I am not stone. I deserve more than endurance. I deserve pleasure and the good and the new.

Not perfect teeth but teeth free enough to move.

_____

Excerpted from ADULT BRACES. Copyright © 2026 Lindy West published by Grand Central Publishing, a Hachette Book Group company. All rights reserved.

I was seated at the kitchen table drinking a cup of weak tea. The dog was asleep in the corner. My twenty-one-year-old son sat cross-legged on the floor, messing with his electric guitar, telling me a funny story about a dating disaster involving one of his good friends.

“Rocco’s a fool,” I said with affection when Sam’s tale was done. “He is,” Sam agreed. “I love him.”

We laughed. Then Sam stopped strumming and looked at me. “You don’t really have any friends, do you, Dad?”

The directness of my son’s comment was typical of him, but Sam didn’t mean it in a hurtful or aggressive way. As far as he knew, it was a fair enough assessment. But as is the case between parents and their children, there’s more to the story of my life than my son is aware. I looked at him.

“I have friends, Sam,” I said. “I just don’t see them, but I know they’re there. And that’s enough.”

Somewhere I must have known that Sam had hit a nerve, because I instantaneously and unconsciously adopted an attitude that spoke from a parental height. My tone was infused with wisdom and understanding, and allowed me to share my insight with my son in a spirit of openness and generosity.

Sam considered me—probably knew I was full of shit (even if I didn’t at the moment)—then graciously accepted my answer with a brief nod. We chatted some more, and he went off to meet his girlfriend.

His comment stayed with me.

What had actually happened to my friendships? Were they still there, as I claimed? Did I even want them? Or need them? What did I get from them, anyway? What did I have to offer them? How did friendship affect my place in the world? What did I value? What mattered?

I sipped my tea—it was cold. My eighteen-year-old daughter, Willow, raced through, late for a dance class. The dog lifted her head at this excitement, stretched, then went back to sleep.

My experience with friendship has not always been straightforward.

Growing up in suburban New Jersey, mine was a typical neighborhood upbringing, now long gone—driveway basketball games and stolen peeks at Playboy magazine in wood-paneled basements. “Be home at six for dinner” was my mother’s after-school mantra. I was the third of four boys. My older brother Peter was my protector. I was a shy kid with a small circle, yet never wanted for friends.

In my early twenties I became successful in the movies. “Overnight,” my position in the world was forever altered. I was a very unprepared public figure. Someone who was content to slip along the edges, desiring to be special yet not craving overt atten- tion, I was thrust into the center of things. People came at me. I wrapped myself tighter around the friends I had before this burst of notoriety. That I began to drink too much spoke to my innate alcoholism and not to my newfound fortune.

I retreated, then withdrew.

By the time this brush with fame had subsided and my drink- ing had been arrested, I was nearly thirty, and a more solitary version of who I was began to emerge. I discovered I liked my own company and often sought out time alone.

When eventually I married, I saw that almost all my friend- ships with women had been based around flirtation and the possibility of our going to bed. That obviously had to change. And with men, I looked up to realize that my several close and long- time friends had moved away. Far away.

On the rare occasion I did form a new connection, the motivation to nurture it was often lacking. Whether a reaction to the hollowness of some insincere friendships made during my early fame, or a fearful nature, or just becoming set in my habits, I found myself uninterested, even unwilling, to reach out to new friends. No matter—I was happy in my own company and with that of my wife and children. And there was always work. Life felt full—at least full enough.

But sitting alone at the kitchen table, dog asleep in the corner, my now-cold tea in hand, I became aware that this was one of those moments that occasionally present themselves and, by the very nature of its almost imperceptible arrival, demand a reckoning.

Excerpted from WHO NEEDS FRIENDS. Copyright © 2026 Andrew McCarthy published by Grand Central Publishing, a Hachette Book Group company. All rights reserved.

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New York, NY (February 11, 2026) — Grand Central Publishing (GCP), a division of the Hachette Book Group, is honored to announce the forthcoming publication of the long-awaited memoir by two-time Academy Award-winning actor and producer Michael Douglas. The book, currently untitled, is scheduled for publication on October 6, 2026, in hardcover, e-book, and audiobook editions. Colin Dickerman, Senior Vice President and Editor-in-Chief at GCP acquired World Rights from Shane Salerno of The Story Factory.  Headline will publish simultaneously in the UK.  Michael Fleming is collaborating with Douglas on the book.

Michael Douglas is a legendary actor and Hollywood Icon whose five-decade career spans film, television, and producing. He has won two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, five Golden Globes, a Primetime Emmy, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and the AFI Life Achievement Award, among many others. 

He starred in and produced some of the most successful movies of all time, including One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Romancing the Stone, The China Syndrome, Fatal Attraction, Black Rain, Wall Street, Basic Instinct, Disclosure, The Game, Wonder Boys, Traffic, and Behind the Candelabra. His iconic movies have defined cultural moments and sometimes whole decades.

Beyond his artistic achievements, Douglas is a dedicated philanthropist and activist championing peace, democracy, gun control, and nuclear disarmament. His advocacy led to his 1998 appointment by United Nation’s Secretary-General Kofi Annan as a Messenger of Peace.

For the first time, Douglas is ready to tell the unfiltered story of his life in a raw, career-sweeping memoir that traces his journey from his father, Kirk Douglas’ shadow to his own stardom, revealing his personal challenges, including addiction that threatened his marriage and career, love affairs, as well as his son’s devastating drug addiction and prison sentence. He also shares his triumphs: his victorious fight against stage-four cancer and his enduring twenty-five-year marriage to Catherine Zeta-Jones, which has proved skeptics wrong and become one of Hollywood’s most enduring love stories.

Douglas said:

“After being asked for many years, I’ve finally decided it’s time to tell my story on my own terms. Not the highlight reel, not the version shaped by headlines or box office numbers, but the real one. I’ve lived a life that unfolded in public while being deeply private at the same time, and there’s a difference. This is about where I came from, what I fought against, and   what I chose for myself. Fame can blur the truth; this is my attempt to bring it back into focus.”

Dickerman said, “Growing up in the shadow of a Hollywood legend, navigating a risk-taking career that has spanned six decades and included films that defined our culture, privately fighting health and family battles while in the glare of the spotlight—Douglas’ life is a towering achievement in perseverance.  That he has chosen to tell his story with such honesty and intimacy is a gift to his fans as well as everyone who wants a front row seat to Hollywood’s most turbulent and thrilling years.”

About Grand Central Publishing:

Grand Central Publishing reaches a diverse audience through books that cater to every kind of reader. Its imprints are Balance, Cardinal, Da Capo, Forever, Grand Central, and Legacy Lit.   Grand Central Publishing is one of three divisions of the Grand Central Publishing Group, which also includes Hachette Nashville and Union Square & Co.  

About Hachette Book Group 

Hachette Book Group (HBG) is a leading US general-interest book publisher made up of dozens of esteemed imprints within the publishing groups Basic Books Group; Grand Central Publishing Group; Hachette Audio; Little, Brown and Company; Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Orbit; Workman Publishing; and Running Press Group. We also provide custom distribution, fulfillment, and sales services to other publishing companies.   

Our books and authors have received the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Caldecott Medal, Newbery Medal, Booker Prize, Nobel Peace Prize, and other major honors.   

We are committed to diversity in our company and our publishing programs, and to fostering a culture of inclusion for all our employees and authors. We are proud to be part of Hachette Livre, the world’s third-largest trade and educational publisher.   

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BUILDING ON DECADES OF RESEARCH AND REPORTING, GLADWELL ARGUES THAT THE SOLUTION LIES NOT SIMPLY IN “MORE GUN CONTROL,” BUT IN A TOTAL REEVALUATION OF THE ISSUE.

NEW YORK, NY (February 5, 2026) – In The American Way of Killing (out September 29, 2026) Malcolm Gladwell, author of New York Times bestsellers including Revenge of the Tipping Point and Talking to Strangers and host of the award-winning podcast Revisionist History, gets to the heart of America’s gun violence crisis: Where did America’s violence problem come from? And why has it proven so difficult to address?

From The Tipping Point to Blink to his podcast episodes, Gladwell has returned again and again to the topics of crime, policing, and punishment. In The American Way of Killing, he expands on his reporting, originally featured in a series of Revisionist History episodes, with new interviews and research. 

The American Way of Killing is an argument for looking in unexpected places when trying to understand the American problem of lethal violence. Gladwell explores the profound absurdity of the way the nation handles gun violence through a series of stories — the miracle of a young gunshot victim in Washington D.C., the legal travails of a 17th century English knight, a professor in Alabama with a terrible secret, and a prison in Germany that would be unrecognizable to any American, among others.

The American Way of Killing will be available in audio, print, and eBook, on September 29, 2026. Narrated by the author, the audiobook will feature Gladwell’s trademark audio-first production quality, complete with original reporting and interviews, archival tape, sound design, and more. The audio edition will be produced by Pushkin Industries and published by RBmedia, with the print edition to be published by Little, Brown and Company. Preorder the audiobook hereand the print edition here.

“At Pushkin, we approach publishing as a strategic design process,” said Nicole Op den Bosch, SVP & Publisher at Pushkin Industries. “The American Way of Killing is the result of intentional, cross-format thinking, and our partnership with RBmedia and Little, Brown reflects a shared commitment to the craft of storytelling in both audio and print.”

ABOUT MALCOLM GLADWELL:

Malcolm Gladwell is a journalist, a speaker, and the author of eight New York Times bestsellers, including The Tipping Point, Outliers, David and Goliath, Talking to Strangers, and The Bomber Mafia. He is the co-founder of Pushkin Industries, where he hosts the hit podcast Revisionist History.

ABOUT PUSHKIN INDUSTRIES:

Pushkin Industries is dedicated to producing audio in any format that challenges listeners, encourages their curiosity, and inspires joy. Or, in other words: Good, Smart, Fun. Founded in 2018, Pushkin has produced numerous podcasts that have broken into the top 10 on the Apple Podcasts chart, including Malcolm Gladwell’s hugely successful Revisionist History, as well as Against the Rules from Michael Lewis, Paul McCartney’s A Life in Lyrics, The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos, Broken Record, Tim Harford’s Cautionary Tales, The Last Archive, Deep Cover, Lost Hills, and Apple’s Best Show of 2021: A Slight Change of Plans. Pushkin’s audiobook catalog includes Steve Martin’s So Many Steves, Inside Voice by Lake Bell, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen, Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis, Fauci and Higher Animals by Michael Specter, Heartbreak by Florence Williams, and Malcolm Gladwell’s Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon, and The Bomber Mafia. Follow us @pushkinpods.

ABOUT LITTLE, BROWN:

Little, Brown and Company is a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc. Founded in 1837, Little, Brown has long been recognized as a publisher dedicated to delivering fiction of the highest quality and nonfiction of lasting significance. Our backlist proudly includes an abundance of New York Times bestsellers and winners of the Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award. Our storied list includes classics such as Little Women, Mythology, Brideshead Revisited, and The Catcher in the Rye, as well as modern classics such as Infinite Jest, The Tipping Point, The Historian, Room, Circe, and The Goldfinch. We are also the longstanding home to bestselling franchise authors such as James Patterson, Michael Connelly, Elin Hilderbrand, David Sedaris, and many others. Our wide-ranging and varied imprints include Mulholland Books; Little, Brown Spark; Voracious; and Algonquin Books.

About Hachette Book Group: 

Hachette Book Group (HBG) is a leading U.S. general-interest book publisher made up of dozens of esteemed imprints within the publishing groups Basic Books Group, Grand Central Publishing Group, Hachette Audio, Little, Brown and Company, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Orbit, Workman Publishing, and Running Press Group. We also provide custom distribution, fulfillment, and sales services to several publishing companies.   

Our books and authors have received the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Caldecott Medal, Newbery Medal, Booker Prize, Nobel Prize, James Beard Award, and other major honors.    

We are committed to diversity in our company and our publishing programs, and to fostering a culture of inclusion for all our employees and authors. We are proud to be part of Hachette Livre, the world’s third-largest trade and educational publisher.    

Visit hachettebookgroup.com to learn more about HBG imprints. For updated news follow HBG on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Threads, TikTok, X.com, Snapchat, and YouTube. 

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RBmedia is the largest audiobook publisher in the world. With more than 100,000 titles, our audiobooks continually top key literary awards and bestseller lists. The company’s powerful digital retail and library distribution network reaches millions of listeners around the globe—at home, in the car, and everywhere their mobile devices go. Our titles are available on leading audio platforms, including Audible, Spotify, Apple, Google Play, Audiobooks.com, Storytel, OverDrive, Hoopla, and many more. RBmedia is owned by H.I.G. Capital and Francisco Partners. Find out more at rbmediaglobal.com.

AUBREY HARTMAN RECEIVES NEWBERY HONOR FOR THE UNDEAD FOX OF DEADWOOD FOREST

JEWELL PARKER RHODES WINS CORETTA SCOTT KING BOOK AWARD FOR WILL’S RACE FOR HOME

KADIR NELSON RECEIVES CORETTA SCOTT KING — VIRGINIA HAMILTON AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT

KWAME ALEXANDER NAMED CHILDREN’S LITERATURE LECTURE AWARD WINNER

AUTHOR TASHA SPILLETT AND ILLUSTRATOR DANIEL RAMIREZ RECEIVE AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH LITERATURE AWARD HONOR FOR RAVEN’S RIBBONS

MARIE ARNOLD RECEIVES CORETTA SCOTT KING BOOK AWARD AUTHOR HONOR FOR SPLIT THE SKY

KEEZY YOUNG (HELLO SUNSHINE) AND RAÚL THE THIRD (THE SNIPS: A BAD BUZZ DAY) RECEIVE GRAPHIC NOVELS AND COMICS ROUND TABLE OUTSTANDING COMICS AWARD HONORS

JOHN PICACIO RECEIVES PURA BELPRÉ ILLUSTRATION AWARD HONOR FOR THE INVISIBLE PARADE

AUTHOR QUARTEZ HARRIS and ILLUSTRATOR GORDON C. JAMES RECEIVE ROBERT F. SIBERT INFORMATIONAL BOOK AWARD HONOR FOR GO TELL IT

STEPH CHERRYWELL (THE INK WITCH) AND COREY LIU (HE’S SO POSSESSED WITH ME) NAMED STONEWALL BOOK AWARD HONOREES

NEW YORK, NY (January 26, 2026)—Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (LBYR), celebrating its hundredth anniversary in 2026, is pleased to share the following accolades announced during this morning’s American Library Association (ALA) Youth Media Awards, held in Chicago, IL.

Aubrey Hartman has received a 2026 Newbery Honor for The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest. The Newbery Medal is awarded annually to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

Jewell Parker Rhodes has been awarded the Coretta Scott King Book Award for Will’s Race for Home. Marie Arnold has also been recognized by the CSK committee, receiving a Coretta Scott King Author Honor for Split the Sky. In recognition of his body of work, Kadir Nelson was honored with the 2026 Coretta Scott King – Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement. Nelson’s celebrated works include Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom (LBYR, written by Carole Boston Weatherford), We Are the Ship: The Story of NegroLeague Baseball (LBYR), The Undefeated (HarperCollins, written by Kwame Alexander), and Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans (HarperCollins).

Kwame Alexander has been named winner of the Children’s Literature Lecture Award, presented by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), in recognition of his body of work written for young people, including LBYR titles The Undefeated (illustrated by Kadir Nelson), The Door of No Return, Black Star, An American Story (illustrated by Dare Coulter), and How Sweet the Sound (illustrated by Charly Palmer), among many others.

Author Tasha Spillet and illustrator Daniel Ramirez received an American Indian Youth Literature Award Honor for Raven’s Ribbons. Graphic Novels and Comics Round Table Outstanding Comics Award Honors were given to Keezy Young for Hello Sunshine (Young Adult, Fiction) and Raúl the Third for The Snips: A Bad Buzz Day (Children, Fiction). The award also acknowledged these contributors to The Snips: Elaine Bay (colors), Eleonora Bruni (coloring), Rob Leigh (lettering). John Picacio received a Pura Belpré Illustration Award Honor for The Invisible Parade, a book he created with author Leigh Bardugo. Author Quartez Harris and illustrator Gordon C. James have been awarded a Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award Honor for Go Tell It: How James Baldwin Became a Writer. Stonewall Book Award – Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award Honors were awarded to Steph Cherrywell for The Ink Witch and Corey Liu for He’s So Possessed with Me.

“It’s a thrill to see so many of our talented creators recognized today and across such a diverse range of categories,” said Megan Tingley, President and Publisher of Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. “We are extremely proud that rising new talent Aubrey Hartman’s exquisite novel received a Newbery Honor and deeply gratified to see our longtime house author Jewell Parker Rhodes awarded the Coretta Scott King. We join their other publishers in congratulating literary and artistic giants Kwame Alexander and Kadir Nelson on their distinguished honors.”

The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest, written by Aubrey Hartman and edited by Ruqayyah Daud, has received incredible critical acclaim, having been named to multiple Best of 2025 lists (Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, New York Public Library, and others) and earning four starred reviews. Said Booklist in their starred review, “This tale of self-love and acceptance makes the most of its unique setting and the memorable characters found there.” In the novel, Clare (an undead fox) and Gingersnipes (an entirely dead badger) begrudgingly team up to change their destinies. A companion to The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest, The Unsung Hero of Deadwood Forest, is scheduled for publication in 2027.

Aubrey Hartman is also the author of The Lion of Lark-Hayes Manor (2023), “an enchanting adventure that encourages readers to find their voice and delight in stories” (Booklist). Her novels have received critical acclaim from Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, Book Riot, The Bulletin, and various other outlets, and have been featured on numerous Best Books of the Year lists.

Will’s Race for Home, written by Jewell Parker Rhodes and edited by Alvina Ling, follows twelve-year-old Will Samuels as he and his sharecropper father strike out to claim land from Texas during the 1889 Oklahoma Land Rush. An instant New York Times bestseller and recipient of four starred reviews, Will’s Race for Home confronts the racism and prejudice that Black Americans faced post-slavery and includes an extensive afterword that pays tribute to the stories of African Americans on the western front. In their starred review, Publishers Weekly describes the book as, “Ripe with historical facts and moments of high tension, this adventurous story reflects on the aftereffects of violence on soldiers and what life looked like for Black citizens following the conclusion of the Civil War. It’s an empowering read that never loses sight of Will’s profound exploration of adolescence.”

Jewell Parker Rhodes is the New York Times bestselling author of several books for youth, including Ghost Boys; Black Brother, Black Brother; Paradise on Fire; and Towers Falling. She is the recipient of many distinguished awards and honors, including the Coretta Scott King Author Honor, the Green Earth Book Award, an NAACP ImageAward nomination, the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award, and the Octavia E. Butler Award. Dr. Rhodes is the Founding Artistic Director of the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing and Virginia G. Piper Endowed Chair at Arizona State University.

Split the Sky, written by Marie Arnold and edited by Margaret Raymo, is a young adult novel that uniquely incorporates speculative elements in a story examining racial violence and bigotry. Fifteen-year-old Lala Russell has inherited her grandmother’s gift of foresight. When a vision shows her the racially motivated killing of a Black teenager, she must contend with family expectations and deep moral questions to decide what’s right. “Steeped in Black history, tough moral dilemmas, and poignant depictions of contemporary social conflict, this is a thought-provoking journey with plenty of heart and surprises” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

Marie Arnold was born in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, and came to America at the age of seven. She attended Columbia College in Chicago, where her main focus was creative writing. As Lola StVil, she is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling indie author. Over two million readers have downloaded her young adult fantasy series Guardians.

Kadir Nelson is the illustrator of many books for young readers, including the Caldecott Medal winner The Undefeated, written by Kwame Alexander; the New York Times bestseller We Are the Ship, winner of the Coretta Scott King Author Award and Illustrator Honor as well as the Sibert Medal; and Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, written by Carole Boston Weatherford, which was an NAACP Image Award winner, Caldecott Honor Book, and Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award winner. His latest release, Basket Ball: The Story of the All-American Game, published on January 13, 2026, has received four starred reviews and was an instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller. His work has appeared in many publications, including The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and Sports Illustrated. Kadir’s original paintings are in the permanent collections of the US House of Representatives and the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and National Museum of African American History and Culture, and he has been inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame.

Kwame Alexander is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of over forty books, including the Newbery Medal–winning novel The Crossover; the Caldecott Medal- and Newbery Honor–winning picture book The Undefeated; The Door of No Return; Black Star; American Story, How Sweet the Sound; and J vs. K, which he co-wrote with Jerry Craft. His next book, publishing on February 3, 2026, is The Mighty Macy, a charming chapter book featuring illustrations by Kitt Thomas. An Emmy Award–winning producer, NAACP Image Award recipient and Sine Fellow at American University, Kwame is also the founder of the literacy nonprofit One Word at a Time.

Raven’s Ribbons, written by Tasha Spillett, illustrated by Daniel Ramirez, and edited by Susan Rich, is a joyful story of young Raven, who loves dancing with his grandmother at round dances, admiring the ribbon skirts in motion. He longs for a ribbon skirt of his own, and so she makes him a skirt to wear at the next round dance. A celebration of individuality and self-expression, “Spillet captures the joy of the round dance, and a feeling of belonging and connection offered in intergenerational Indigenous community” (Publisher Weekly, starred review).

Tasha Spillett is a Cree and Trinidadian award-winning poet, scholar, and writer. She is the author of several books for young readers, including the New York Times bestselling picture book I Sang You Down from the Stars with art by Michaela Goade.

Daniel Ramirez is a descendant of the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe of Michigan and a much-celebrated two-spirit fine artist. His award-winning art has appeared in exhibitions and museums across the world, including at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC.

Hello Sunshine, written and illustrated by Keezy Young and edited by Andrea Colvin, is a lush and romantic queer horror graphic novel set in a small town where a troubled teen has gone missing, sending his loved ones on a paranormal journey to bring him home. Kirkus Reviews calls the book “beautiful, spooky, and emotional.”

Keezy Young is an award-winning and Eisner- and Ignatz-nominated cartoonist and illustrator who writes and draws comics and graphic novels. They enjoy writing mystery, horror, love stories, and ghosts, and their vibrant retro color palettes and strong sense of linework help to bring their stories to life. Their work is character-focused, and they often explore LGBTQIA characters and themes. Mental illness is also an important focus in many of their stories.

The Snips: A Bad Buzz Day, written and illustrated by Raúl the Third and edited by Margaret Raymo, is the first book in award-winning creator Raúl the Third’s fun and zany early graphic novel series starring a crew of scissor- wielding hairdresser superheroes. Says Booklist, “Raúl’s signature bright, bold art style is blended with comic-book formatting that jumps off the page . . . . A wildly enjoyable reminder that the greatest success comes not from winning, but from bringing support and joy to the community.” Also contributing to the creation of the book are Elaine Bay (colors), Eleonora Bruni (coloring), and Rob Leigh (lettering).

Raúl The Third is a four-time Pura Belpré Award-winning illustrator, author, and artist. He is the illustrator of the critically acclaimed Low Riders in Space series and the World of ¡Vamos! books. His work centers around the contemporary Mexican American experience and his memories of growing up in El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.

The Invisible Parade, by Leigh Bardugo and John Picacio, with illustrations by Picacio, and edited by Alvina Ling, is a stunning picture book collaboration set against the backdrop of Día de Muertos. The concept originated with Picacio, who pitched Bardugo in 2016 with a single line: “It’s The Wizard of Oz set in a graveyard.” In a statement, Picacio shared, “We made The Invisible Parade for people of all ages who have felt loss, or have lost someone they love.” Kirkus Reviews calls the book “simply wondrous,” and Booklist, “an understated masterclass in processing grief through culture.”

John Picacio is a World Fantasy Award– and Hugo Award–winning artist who has created book illustrations for major works by George R. R. Martin, Rebecca Roanhorse, and many more. He’s the founder of the Mexicanx Initiative, spearheading the journeys of more than forty Mexican and Mexican American creators into the wider awareness of fantasy and science fiction audiences.

Go Tell It: How James Baldwin Became a Writer, written by Quartez Harris, illustrated by Gordon C. James, and edited by Lisa Yoskowitz, is a stunning, USA Today bestselling picture book biography of James Baldwin. Pairing Harris’s exquisite prose and James’s breathtaking illustrations, Go Tell It is both a beautiful introduction to the legendary writer’s life and career and a celebration of the written word. In their starred review (one of five earned by Go Tell It), BookPage calls the book, “Exceptional, a master class of a picture book biography overflowing with energy-infused words and pictures” and “an inspiring look at one of America’s most important writers.”

Quartez Harris is a poet, teacher, and bestselling author. He was a Baldwin House fellow and named Ohio Poet of the Year for his book We Made It to School Alive, and his poetry has garnered numerous accolades. He spent many years as a second-grade teacher in the Cleveland public school system and currently spends his time writing and teaching poetry workshops.

Gordon C. James is an award-winning fine artist specializing in figurative drawing and a bestselling, award-winning illustrator. He illustrated Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut, which received Caldecott, Newbery, and Coretta Scott King Illustrator honors, and I Am Every Good Thing, which won the Kirkus Prize, among others. He has worked for Hallmark as an illustrator and artist and taught at the University of North Carolina.

The Ink Witch, written by Steph Cherrywell and edited by Erika Turner and Milena Blue Spruce, is a hilarious and affirming cozy middle-grade fantasy about the adventures of a girl named Becca who discovers she is the descendant of a powerful witch coven. Kirkus Reviews writes, “Humor and heart entwine in this hilarious and wildly creative adventure” (starred review).

Steph Cherrywell is a nonbinary librarian, author, illustrator, and game creator. They are also the author of Unboxing Libby. They have previously written and illustrated the YA-and-older graphic novels Widgey Q. Butterfluff and Pepper Penwell and the Land Creature of Monster Lake, and written and programmed the award-winning text adventures Brain Guzzlers from Beyond! and Zozzled.

He’s So Possessed with Me, written by Corey Liu and edited by Crystal Castro, is a terrifying, tender, and bitingly hilarious supernatural young adult horror novel about a boy who must save his best friend from a demon that wants to steal his heart—literally. Liu’s debut novel follows high school senior Colin and his best friend, Ren, who, after leaving a gay club, first encounter homophobic bullies and then a demonic force that takes hold of Ren. What follows is “[a] deliciously creepy queer story that puts friendship first” (Kirkus Reviews).

Corey Liu received an MA in Children’s Literature from UBC and has written for television shows like Family Law, Pinecone & Pony, and Davey and Jonesie’s Locker. Most recently, he was a co-executive producer of the Kpop series Gangnam Project.

About Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers is a division of Hachette Book Group, a leading U.S. general-interest book publisher made up of dozens of esteemed imprints within the publishing groups Basic Books Group, Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Audio, Hachette Nashville, Little, Brown and Company, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Orbit, Running Press Group, and Workman Publishing. For more information, visit hachettebookgroup.com.

About Hachette Book Group: 

Hachette Book Group (HBG) is a leading U.S. general-interest book publisher made up of dozens of esteemed imprints within the publishing groups Basic Books Group, Grand Central Publishing Group, Hachette Audio, Little, Brown and Company, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Orbit, Workman Publishing, and Running Press Group. We also provide custom distribution, fulfillment, and sales services to several publishing companies.   

Our books and authors have received the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Caldecott Medal, Newbery Medal, Booker Prize, Nobel Prize, James Beard Award, and other major honors.    

We are committed to diversity in our company and our publishing programs, and to fostering a culture of inclusion for all our employees and authors. We are proud to be part of Hachette Livre, the world’s third-largest trade and educational publisher.    

Visit hachettebookgroup.com to learn more about HBG imprints. For updated news follow HBG on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Threads, TikTok, X.com, Snapchat, and YouTube. 

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Get ready to celebrate Valentine’s Day in the best way possible…adding new books to your TBR! Check out our list of recommendations for all your love life’s needs.

The Bedroom Gap

by Maria Sophocles, MD

A powerful, long-overdue exploration of the silent struggles women face in midlife around intimacy, identity, and inequality.
 ―Dr. Mary Claire Haver, New York Times bestselling author The New Menopause

A roadmap for midlife women, couples, clinicians and anyone wanting to understand—and change—the societal, historical and physiological effects of our Sexspan.

Sex in midlife can be a bumpy road, especially for women. Our bodies change with age, and those changes can lead to shame, confusion, and the loss of intimacy. The Bedroom Gap shows us how society developed destined-to-fail gender roles and expectations in the bedroom and makes clear how we can level the playing field between midlife men and women.

This groundbreaking yet easily accessible guide not only clarifies the physical changes of menopause and how they affect sex in midlife, it also details how we can treat those changes, reframe our views on pleasure and desire, narrow the discrepancy in sexual functioning between middle age men and women, and optimize sexual pleasure after 40.

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So Tell Me About the Last Time You Had Sex

by Ian Kerner, PhD, LMFT

Now in paperback, renowned sex therapist Ian Kerner shares the unique and indispensable methodology he uses to help thousands of couples get unstuck and into sexual sync.

Dr. Ian Kerner is a Sherlock Holmes of the bedroom—a sexual detective helping individuals and couples solve the mystery of their sexual distress. His secret weapon? Anaylzing your “sex script.”

Kerner takes a magnifying glass to a recent sexual event, examining the entire sequence of interactions—beginning, middle, and end—from multiple angles. In those details—the what, where, when, and why of the last time you had sex—all the clues of what went wrong are revealed and the mystery of how to create mutual pleasure can be solved. When our sex scripts work, we lose ourselves in mutual pleasure; but when they fail, it’s all we can do not to ruminate over the details. What can be learned by looking at your sex life in action?

With wit and warmth, the nationally recognized sex therapist and author of the smash hit She Comes First shows readers how to tap into their erotic personalities and realize their sexual potential. Dr. Kerner provides the tools and techniques you need to assess, fix, and expand your sex scripts, as well as discuss many common sexual problems that get in the way of happy endings. With the help of decades of clinical insight, the latest sexual science and research, valuable homework assignments, case studies, and more, this insightful and original book strips away discomfort and offers couples not just the ability to talk about sex, but the ability to actually do something about it.
 

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Butt Seriously

by Dr. Evan Goldstein

A cheeky yet authoritative guide to anal health and anal sex, written by the leading anal health expert in the United States.

More people than ever are receptive to the pleasures of anal, but compassionate, medically comprehensive information can be challenging to come by. No more!
  
Whether you’re a top or a bottom, gay or straight, experienced or just getting ready to stretch your, um, imagination—Butt Seriously gives you the medically accurate, scientifically-backed information you need to keep your peach ready to take you to the height of sexual bliss.
 
This first-of-a-kind guide will teach you how to keep your anus healthy, maximize your pleasure, and bust the myths holding us back around anal sex. Among other takeaways, Butt Seriously will:

• Offer comprehensive, medically-accurate sex-ed for anyone who engages, regardless of gender and sexual identity
• Reveal why a prostate orgasm is the best orgasm
• Show women how butt play allows access to their other erogenous spot (the A-zone)
• Recommend the best techniques, toys, lubes, and other products
• Teach readers how to poop, sit, eat, exercise to support their pelvic floor and heal common challenges such as hemorrhoids and fissures.

Refreshingly inclusive and sex-positive, Butt Seriously is the backdoor bible for anyone looking to uplevel their sex life.

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The New Rules of Attachment

by Dr. Judy Ho

Discover a revolutionary approach to attachment theory and find healing and growth in all areas of your life—perfect for readers of Dr. Nicole LePera’s How to Do the Work and Amir Levine’s Attached.  

Grounded in the science of attachment, triple board-certified clinical and forensic neuropsychologist Dr. Judy’s Ho’s game-changing approach shows that our attachment style impacts every aspect of our lives: romantic relationships, friendships, career, goal setting, and our sense of self. Moreover, we can all learn to become securely attached—no matter what attachment style we developed in childhood. 

Through Dr. Judy’s innovative program, readers will learn to recognize their core needs and wounds, and implement evidence-based practical tools to heal their inner child. Readers will also benefit from: 

• A new quiz to identify your attachment style in all areas of life. 
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• More than two dozen transformative exercises to support your journey to healing. 

With warmth, and a bias to action, The New Rules of Attachment is a call to achieving unconditional self-love and a meaningful, joyful life.

“A significant breakthrough for those of us who want to finally release our childhood wounds, traumas and dysfunctional adult behaviors. You will love yourself even more with your new-found sense of well-being.” —John Assaraf, New York Times bestselling author, CEO and founder of MyNeuroGym.com

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Love by Design

by Dr. Sara Nasserzadeh

Redefine romance and build loving connections you yearn for with the help of this guide for couples—perfect for readers of 8 Rules of Love and the Love Prescription.

Grounded in two decades of original research and work with couples from around the world, Love by Design introduces a groundbreaking new foundation for love: The Emergent Love Model. As Dr. Sara Nasserzadeh knows, successful partnerships do not thrive on love, at least as we know it. Instead of chasing our butterflies, we need to cultivate six core relational ingredients that make it possible for love to emerge:

·Attraction: What do you like and value about each other?
·Respect: How do you keep each other’s needs and priorities in mind?
·Trust: Do you know that you will show up for each other consistently?
·Compassion: Can you honor the other’s emotional experience without making it about you?
·Shared vision: Where are you committed to going together?
·Loving behaviors: How do you show your partner they’re special to you?

Offering dozens of exercises and reflection prompts, this groundbreaking book gives readers a new foundation for a thriving, lasting coupledom.

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How to Find True Love

by Francesca Hogi

From award-winning dating coach and matchmaker, a practical guide for anyone holding on to the hope that true love exists, and ready to empower themselves to find it. 

We all know dating sucks. It hasn’t gotten any easier since it was invented—in fact, some might say the advent of online dating, apps like Tinder and Hinge, and now AI has made it nearly impossible to find love even thought we’re more connected than ever. And yet, as challenging as it is to meet someone, we’re all still desirous of love, because we’re humans, and we’re facing a loneliness epidemic. With How to Find True Love, Francesca Hogi provides a better plan for finding true love. Hogi seeks to bring purpose to modern dating and optimism to the hearts of cynical daters everywhere. With her advice, exhausted romantics will find comfort in releasing the impossible ideal of one perfect person being their “one true love,” and instead understand that true love is first and foremost an inside job. Co-creating a true love relationship with another is a choice, and it’s available to everyone who wants healthy love. To do this, readers will work on improving their: 

   ·Mindset: empowering readers to expand how they think of love
   ·Heartset: energizing the reader’s feelings by leaning into self-love
   ·Skillset: equipping readers with the skills necessary to navigate modern dating 
   ·Soulset: helping readers embody the energy of love 

Modern dating is broken. How to Find True Love is the fix—it’s time for a true love revolution. 

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Attuned and Attached

by Yolanda Renteria, LPC, NCC

An empathetic, accessible, research-backed guide to creating healthy, secure, attuned relationships by exploring the roots of your own emotional disconnection. 

Not only is deep, meaningful connection with others something we yearn for, research shows that connection has profound effects on our overall health. Yet so many of us have feelings of loneliness and dissatisfaction with our personal relationships, feeling misattuned, misunderstood, or emotionally distant—and confused about why that may be. 

In Attuned and Attached licensed professional counselor Yolanda Renteria  shares practical strategies to help us take a deeper look at our current relationships and identify our emotional disconnections, which tend to present as hyper-indepdendence, perfectionism, difficulty taking accountability, people pleasing, and more.

  Once we know our patterns, we can then: 

• Identify safe people and healthy relationships
• Set realistic and healthy relationship expectations
• Repair relationships after a rupture or misattunement
• Develop resources to feel connected more often

By blending clinical research with her own experience of emotional disconnection, Yolanda invites the reader on a healing journey through understanding and validation. Emotional disconnection isn’t wrong; it’s caused by myriad factors throughout one’s life. But there is a way forward. Yolanda’s work especially speaks to those who feel that they had a fine or “good enough” childhood, but still feel emotionally disconnected, lost, and unfilled in their relationships. 

Whether you identify disconnection in yourself or in someone close to you, you will learn how to bring more safety and vulnerability into your relationships for nourishing, peaceful, and fulfilling connections.

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Why Do I Keep Doing This?

by Kati Morton, LMFT

Leading mental health advocate and licensed marriage and family therapist, Kati Morton, explores our common struggle and contradiction with control in ourselves and relationships, giving readers the ability to not only ask themselves whydo I keep doing this, but have the insight to find a real answer.

Many of us were told to stuff our feelings down when we were younger. We were taught that that our emotional reactions and responses should be controlled so we didn’t embarrass or upset our parents and those around us. However, if that control oozes over into our relationships it’s considered a bad thing. Controlling our friends or romantic partners is seen as toxic. Control is a precarious thing. Some sides of control are meant to keep us safe, while others harm connections. So, what are we supposed to do?

In Why Do I Keep Doing This? licensed family and marriage therapist , Kati Morton, explores this common struggle and contradiction with control. Kati shows how our upbringing and anxiety are often connected to our struggle to take up space. We can feel like we are too much by just existing in the same place as someone else, or that we are less deserving of their time and care. This struggle with asserting ourselves, or taking what we require can harm our development. We sometimes think the only way to feel okay and get what we need is to please everyone else first. Why Do I Keep Doing This? is a vital tool in helping us understand why control can be so attractive, but if left unmonitored can become detrimental to our lives. We all go through tough times and face uncertain futures, and we do what we can to cope, but as we get older and in an attempt to get wiser, we have to notice what behaviors are holding us back and change them.

Why Do I Keep Doing This? will shed light on shared struggles as readers follow Kati through some key points of growth in her own life while incorporating what she has learned as a therapist and content creator who knows how to create lasting healthy change. This book gives readers the ability to not only ask themselves why do I keep doing this? but also have the insight to find a real answer.

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End Emotional Outsourcing

by Beatriz Victoria Albina, NP, MPH, SEP

From a certified somatic life coach, a feminist guide to reclaiming your self-worth and having healthier relationships—perfect for readers of Burnout and The Body Is Not an Apology. 

Do you say “yes” when you mean “no”? Do you end up in lopsided relationships, feeling resentful but not sure how to speak up? Do you feel anxious, struggle with perfectionism and imposter syndrome, or feel like you’ve lost touch with your true self? You’re not alone: Thousands of people, especially those of us socialized as women, struggle with Emotional Outsourcing—a term nurse practitioner and life coach Beatriz Victoria Albina coined to describe the codependent habits that keep us stuck.      

In End Emotional Outsourcing, Albina explores the origins—both personal and systemic—of these tendencies, and coaches readers through a science-backed program of thought work and somatic practices. Readers will learn to: 

   ·Regulate their nervous systems
   ·Reframe their habitual thoughts and actions
   ·Take back their time and energy
   ·Improve relationships with parents, friends, and partners
   ·Discover their inherent self-worth and lovability

Groundbreaking, healing, and urgent, End Emotional Outsourcing is poised to change the conversation about codependency, and help an entire generation of women step into their power.  

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Narcissistic Abuse

by Vanessa M. Reiser

Licensed therapist and narcissism expert Vanessa M. Reiser offers a guide to identifying narcissistic abuse, especially in interpersonal relationships, sharing practical strategies for healing.

Gaslighting. Love bombing. Hoovering. Triangulating. These are all insidious weapons in the narcissist’s toolkit. Narcissism can be hard to diagnose, but it is one of the hallmarks of abusive relationships. As a therapist specializing in narcissism and domestic abuse, Vanessa M. Reiser has strategies to help victims to identify, understand, and heal from abusive relationships. With a blend of information, education, and stories, Reiser defines what narcissistic abuse is, breaks down how it’s a form of domestic violence and how narcissists think and operate, uncovering their mindset and motivations, so readers can spot a narcissist more accurately, avoid toxic relationships, escape dangerous situations, and heal from mental, emotional and/or physical trauma. Readers will learn how to:

• Identify dangerous behaviors and warning signs of narcissistic abuse
• Create an exit strategy to safely escape from an abuser
• Heal from the psychological damage and trauma.

Explaining narcissistic personality disorder, clarifying common misconceptions about narcissism, and detailing how narcissism works on a spectrum of benign to malignant, Narcissistic Abuse gives readers a clear picture of what narcissistic abuse entails, using specific situations and examples to show how narcissistic traits translate into real-life behaviors. Reiser describes the five stages of narcissistic abuse (luring, love bombing, mask slipping, discarding, and the smear campaign) and lists common stages and emotions that come after the relationship with a narcissist has been severed (including devastation, confusion, sadness, anger, understanding, and healing). With practical tools and a warm, empathetic tone, Narcissistic Abuse provides a clear path for readers to break the cycle and find a path back to themselves.

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Loving You Is Hurting Me

by Laura Copley

Learn how to heal your emotional wounds, get unstuck, and get into healthy, loving, intimate relationships with the help of this eye-opening book.

At the core of most toxic relationships is a painful trauma wound desperate to be healed. As a licensed professional counselor and trauma researcher, Dr. Laura Copley often found herself disturbed by the stigma that her profession puts on trauma survivors who are in these toxic bonds, often too quickly labeling them as victims or abusers and blaming them for their troubled relationships. 

Too often, survivors of trauma are left feeling hopeless, exiled from normal social interactions, and destined for heartbreak in any relationship they attract. Through her work with clients, and her own experiences, Dr. Copley developed a roadmap for healing the toxic emotions that come from being bonded by trauma in relationships. 

In Loving You is Hurting Me, Dr. Copley guides you through your trauma origins and into a life rich with meaning, loving connection, and inspiration. Drawing from groundbreaking science on trauma and its effects on the body, and from her own practice including a decade’s worth of research on trauma and intimacy, Dr. Copley presents an experiential and transformative approach unlike any other. Her program transforms your trauma bond into deep connection with the self and safe intimacy with others.  
 

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The Love Gap

by Jenna Birch

A research-based guide to navigating the newest dating phenomenon–“the love gap”–and a trailblazing action plan to help smart, confident, career-driven women find (and keep) their match.

For a rising generation young women, the sky is the limit. Women can be anything and have everything. They are outpacing their male peers in higher education and earning the corner office at work. Smart, driven, assertive women are succeeding at just about everything they do–except romance.

Why are so many men afraid to date smart women?

Modern men claim to want smarts, success, and independence in romantic partners. Or so says the data collected by scientists and dating websites. If that’s the case, why are so many independent, successful women winning in life, but losing in love? Journalist Jenna Birch has finally named the perplexing reason: “the love gap”–or that confusing rift between who men say they want to date and who they actually commit to. Backed by extensive data, research, in-depth interviews with experts and real-life relationship stories, The Love Gap is the first book to explore the most talked-about dating trend today. The guide also establishes a new framework for navigating modern relationships, and the tricky new gender dynamics that impact them. Women can, and should, have it all without settling.

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It’s Not You, It’s the World

by Joanna Cheek, M.D.

A GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLER!

What if the mental health symptoms we face aren’t the actual problem? What if they’re signals that help us see and solve the real problem—the imbalances in our wider systems that are making us all sick?

As our world clashes and collapses around us, it’s no surprise that one in two of us will be diagnosed with a mental health condition by the age of 40, with one in five people affected each year. It’s hard to view all our mental health symptoms as disordered if so many of us are experiencing them. Perhaps it’s not that something’s gone wrong in our bodies and minds, but that something’s gone right: These symptoms are brilliant alarms and adaptions to survive a disordered world. Having sensitive protective functions that sound alarms or short-circuit when we’re threatened isn’t a design flaw. It’s a design success.

As a psychiatrist, professor, and mental health speaker, Joanna Cheek argues that we’re not broken or doing it wrong when we’re stressed or struggling. As our systems are pushed to the brink of collapse, self-improvement alone neglects the source of our suffering. Instead, to care for ourselves, we must heal the imbalances in our wider systems that keep making us all sick. In It’s Not You. It’s the World, Dr. Cheek offers a survival guide of mental health tools to care for both ourselves and our collectives, helping us understand and befriend our alarms so we can come together to solve the shared problems they’re signaling.

With a foreword by Gabor Maté, chapter-by-chapter guidance, and practical action to empower, connect, and instill hope in the reader, It’s Not You. It’s The World is the go‑to guide for anyone feeling depressed, anxious, enraged, despairing, numb, or sick from adapting to a world on fire.

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When Good Moms Feel Bad

by Jessica Tomich Sorci, LMFT, PMH-C

by Rebecca Geshuri, LMFT, PMH-C

“This is a brilliant adaptation of the IFS model of therapy; addressing ‘Mom Parts’ is a groundbreaking way to help mothers improve their mental health. When Good Moms Feel Bad is a must-read.”
—Richard Schwartz, PhD, creator of Internal Family Systems and author of No Bad Parts
 
In a first-of-its-kind practical guide rooted in the groundbreaking IFS therapeutic model, two maternal mental health experts help moms untangle complicated feelings like anger, guilt, shame, and failure, offering empathy and support.
 
Moms have it hard; whether due to ingrained beliefs, the pressures of everything from social expectations to social media, or our own childhood wounds, even the best moms can feel like they are failing. With empathy, compassion, and deep wisdom, maternal health experts Jessica Tomich Sorci and Rebecca Geshuri address difficult and often suppressed feelings such as anxiety, anger, shame and guilt, as well as disappointment, ambivalence about being a mom, and yearning for your “old” life.

Tomich Sorci and Geshuri help any mom anywhere to identify these pain points, make sense of her distress, and begin to find relief. Their revelatory approach validates the unique suffering moms experience and offers reinterpretations that bring hope and empowerment. Filled with exercises, strategies, and step-by-step guidance, When Good Moms Feel Bad shows you empowering ways to access your abundant inner resources begin building self-trust. You’re already a good mom. Start discovering how your harshest internal voices are trying to help you—and befriend the parts of yourself that you’ve been fighting.

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It’s All Within You

by Millana Snow

For fans of How We Heal and Becoming the One, a global wellness leader offers a counterpoint to the modern culture of relying on external therapies and supplements for healing, guiding readers to their own innate capacity to trust and heal themselves with the tools they already have access to

We live in a world where we’re told we need weekly therapy, a stack of expensive daily supplements, and a two-hour morning routine before we can expect to feel better about ourselves. Let alone handle the daily struggle of living in a modern world where everything seems to be falling apart. And while there are so many ways to “feel better” and “do more,” -our biggest issue today is that we have forgotten that we already have everything we need inside of us.

It’s All Within You shifts the focus from chasing external quick fixes to recognizing and trusting your innate wholeness. Global wellness expert, Millana Snow, reminds us of our inherent power to heal and transform ourselves by coming home to ourselves. Drawing on her thirty years of exploration in meditation, healing and spirituality, Millana shares the seven essential principles that serve as starting points to begin personal transformation from the inside out—awareness, presence, cultivation, integration, grieving, faith, and rest. Backed by real-life examples and practices that she’s taught to thousands of people, these principles will foster a deeper awareness of the effects of personal and collective trauma so you can tackle the stress and daily struggles of your life head on, rather than just managing the symptoms.

It’s All Within You is a manifesto that considers us all healers. When we recognize our power and choose to make healing a way of life, we shift from being passively formed by our circumstances to forming our life as we choose.
 

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Living in Wisdom

by Devi Brown

From Devi Brown, master well-being educator, this full-bodied guide offers inside-out advice for getting unstuck, relieving your internal suffering, and harnessing the power of your authentic self for true personal growth.
 
We endure so much over the course of our lives. Some of it is beautiful; some of it traumatic and sometimes, that trauma can keep us from realizing and embracing all the good we cultivate; our successes and achievements and positive relationships. 
 
This book is for those who feel like something in life is missing, like they want to change some aspect of their lives or themselves, but are being held back as they are denying the true origin of these feelings … so they are stuck. They may be high-achievers and externally, their life looks perfect, yet they are struggling to accept themselves, or even like themselves. They lack the tools, self-trust and personal power to make their ideal life real.
 
In this space, Devi Brown offers help for those struggling to recognize the barriers that keep them from experiencing joy, vulnerability, and self-knowledge. Sharing the wisdom she has gathered as a healer and master well-being educator, Brown guides readers along the path to self-mastery through a combination of spirituality, psychology, ancient wisdom traditions, edgy holistic self-care, and her own inspiring and surprising life experiences. Readers will: 

• Learn aligned decision-making
• Gain practices to alleviate internal suffering
• Expand awareness of their unhelpful patterns 
• Discover an integrated approach to self-love and self-acceptance 
• Live in embodied wellness 

For all those seeking self-improvement, this is an essential manual for getting out of your head and into your life. It is a full-bodied approach to total transformation of mind, body, and spirit.  You can heal your life while fully living it. You can learn from life while enjoying it. You can cultivate a stable inner peace even amidst chaos, and release control to find the flow for your life’s unique path. 

 

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NEW YORK, January 5, 2025 – Hachette Book Group (HBG) announced today that Abigail Koons has been named Vice President of Subsidiary Rights. The appointment was made by Richard Kitson, Hachette Book Group Deputy Chief Executive Officer, to whom Koons will report. In this role, she will oversee and manage the Subsidiary Rights division within Hachette Book Group. This position is responsible for maximizing revenue through the sale of rights, including foreign language translation, audio, film, and television adaptations. The VP will collaborate closely with authors, agents, and internal teams to develop strategic initiatives that enhance the company’s rights portfolio. Koons will be responsible for driving sales and setting direction for a team of subsidiary rights professionals, responsible for domestic and foreign rights across both the adult and children’s markets. She’s had along career in International Rights and as an agent at Park, Fine & Brower Literary Management. 

With more than two decades of publishing experience, Koons was a Literary Agent, Partner, and Executive Director of International Rights at Park, Fine & Brower Literary Management. In that role, she managed global strategies for bestselling authors including Nicholas Sparks, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Cecelia Ahern, Deborah Harkness, and Jeneva Rose, among many others. 

Kitson said: “I’m thrilled to have Abby step into this significant role and move across to the publishing side of subsidiary rights. She understands the huge opportunities for our books across global markets and has a proven ability to lead teams with clarity and creativity. I know that everyone at Hachette is excited about working with her. Abby’s expertise in subsidiary rights, strong relationships with authors and agents, and love of publishing make her ideally suited to advance our mission of making it easy for everyone to discover new worlds of ideas, entertainment, learning, and opportunity.” 

Koons’ expertise spans the full spectrum of publishing operations, from negotiating complex multi-territory deals to collaborating with global publishers across their editorial, sales, publicity, marketing, and legal departments. She has extensive experience working with publishing partners around the world on a range of formats and languages with the express goal of maximizing an author’s reach and finding new consumers for their work. 

“I am delighted to join Hachette at such a dynamic and transformative period of growth for the company. Reader preferences and consumption patterns continue to evolve rapidly, and subsidiary rights present a unique opportunity to engage new audiences around the world,” said Koons. “I look forward to working with this excellent team to maximize the impact of our authors and their work in 2026 and beyond.” 

About Hachette Book Group:  

Hachette Book Group (HBG) is a leading U.S. general-interest book publisher made up of dozens of esteemed imprints within the publishing groups Basic Books Group, Grand Central Publishing Group, Hachette Audio, Little, Brown and Company, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Orbit; Workman Publishing; and Running Press Group. We also provide custom distribution, fulfillment, and sales services to several publishing companies.  

Our books and authors have received the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Caldecott Medal, Newbery Medal, Booker Prize, Nobel Peace Prize, James Beard Award, and other major honors.   

We are committed to diversity in our company and our publishing programs, and to fostering a culture of inclusion for all our employees and authors. We are proud to be part of Hachette Livre, the world’s third-largest tradeand educational publisher.   

Visit hachettebookgroup.com to learn more about HBG imprints. For updated news follow HBG on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Threads, TikTok, X.com, Snapchat, and YouTube. 

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NEW YORK, January 5, 2025 – Hachette Book Group (HBG) announced today that Ed Spade has been named Senior Vice President, Commercial Operations, Hachette Book Group. The appointment was made by Richard Kitson, Hachette Book Group Deputy Chief Executive Officer, to whom Spade will report.  

In this new role, Spade will optimize and scale the commercial success of HBG by driving operational excellence across the company’s publishing ecosystem including sales, marketing, IT, finance, analytics, and other cross-functional departments. This position will further strengthen HBG’s data-driven culture through enhancements to current and future systems and performance dashboards that informcommercial and publishing decisions, demand planning, and revenue strategy. Spade will refine inventory planning for maximum margin, increase global availability, oversee metadata, and advance discoverability strategies. He will also lead key cross-functional initiatives, fostering relationships across HBG, including supporting relationships between key stakeholders, ideating innovative growth improvements, developing new partnerships and ventures, strengthening client relationships, and establishing dynamic new ways of working. As the lead client liaison, Spade will collaborate with Hachette companies worldwide to identify efficiencies and opportunities to optimize workflows, profitability, including the refinement of pricing strategies across formats, markets, and distribution channels. 

“I look forward to partnering with Ed on HBG’s commercial operations roadmap. As a senior advisor to the Executive Management Board, his expertise will positively impact the company’s growth,” said Kitson. “Enhancing HBG’s forecasting, pricing and revenue, Ed’s extensive experience partnering with authors and agents to thoughtfully position books in the marketplace, will strengthen business analytics, sales, operations, distribution models, and digital content ecosystems.” 

Spade has more than two decades of publishing experience across operations, sales, and business transformation with a proven track record modernizing commercial operations and implementing scalable systems. He most recently served as President of Sales at HarperCollins overseeing multiple business operations including print, digital, retail partnerships, and more. Spade played a key role in enterprise-wide initiatives involving organizational structure, inventory and returns management, digital and audio growth, and the expansion of premium and special market programs, working closely with editorial, finance, and operations leadership. 

Earlier in his career, Spade was Interim President of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Books & Media division (HMH), a leading publisher of textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, and reference works, leading the trade business through its 2021 sale to HarperCollins. He joined HMH in 2017 and later served as Vice President of Sales and while also leading the Audio division. In those roles, he managed sales across channels, oversaw the launch of HMH’s audio division, expanded experimentation in digital business models, and spearheaded significant growth in the educational market. Prior to HMH, Spade held senior sales leadership roles at Ingram Content Group and Viacom. He began his career at Penguin Young Readers Group, working closely with authors to bring children’s books to interactive multimedia and audio formats. 

“I’m excited to join Hachette at such a pivotal moment. David and Richard have clearly built a culture defined by understanding consumers, with a deep commitment to readers, as well as growth mindset,” said Spade. “I look forward to partnering with colleagues across the organization to support Hachette’s continued growth and long-term strategic direction.” 

About Hachette Book Group:  

Hachette Book Group (HBG) is a leading U.S. general-interest book publisher made up of dozens of esteemed imprints within the publishing groups Basic Books Group, Grand Central Publishing Group, Hachette Audio, Little, Brown and Company, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Orbit, Workman Publishing, and Running Press Group. We also provide custom distribution, fulfillment, and sales services to several publishing companies.  

Our books and authors have received the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Caldecott Medal, Newbery Medal, Booker Prize, Nobel Peace Prize, James Beard Award, and other major honors.   

We are committed to diversity in our company and our publishing programs, and to fostering a culture of inclusion for all our employees and authors. We are proud to be part of Hachette Livre, the world’s third-largest trade and educational publisher.   

Visit hachettebookgroup.com to learn more about HBG imprints. For updated news follow HBG on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Threads, TikTok, X.com, Snapchat, and YouTube. 

Press Contact: Gabrielle Gambrell [email protected]  

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It’s a new year, the perfect time to make a fresh start and create new habits to benefit your body, mind and spirit for a long time to come. No matter what your goals are this year, we’ve got you covered with expert resources to help you make a plan, follow it through, and stay accountable for change that’ll last way beyond January.

The Hunger Crushing Combo Method

by Abbey Sharp, RD

A GLOBE AND MAIL AND TORONTO STAR BESTSELLER!

Goodbye, diets, restriction, and food noise. Hello, delicious food, satiety, and a healthy way to eat for life!

We have never been more informed—and yet, more confused—about what we eat as we are today. And between our cultural fear over food additives and the buzz around GLP-1 drugs, the noise has become impossible to tune out. Registered dietitian Abbey Sharp has seen—and debunked—it all. Her revolutionary Hunger Crushing Combo Method helps you banish fear foods, guilt, and cheat days, and finally get off the diet roller coaster for good. It’s a simple framework that teaches you to effortlessly balance your meals by combining two or more of the Hunger Crushing Compounds: protein, fiber, and healthy fats. The result? You crush physical hunger, silence emotional cravings, and eat well without deprivation, denial, or dieting. No counting. No tracking. No restricting. Even better, the HCC is adaptable to your goals and unique needs while restoring joy and pleasure to eating.

 Discover:
• Science-backed insight into why the HCC compounds work
• Tips on how to use the HCC method effortlessly and intuitively
• Chapters devoted to specific conditions including weight loss, insulin resistance (type 2 diabetes and PCOS), fitness, menopause, and raising healthy kids
• Thirty easy and adaptable recipes
• Cheat sheets for building your own HCCs
• and much more!
 
Learn how to turn your “unhealthy” cravings into HCCs to stabilize blood sugars and help support a healthy weight—all without giving up the food you love. The Hunger Crushing Combo Method helps you finally feel full and reduce food cravings without ever dieting again. And, yes, you can have your cake and eat it too!

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$42.00 CAD

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SUPER Body

by William Davis, MD

Are you ready to take your health into your own hands? Heal your microbiome and improve your shape and body composition with Dr. William Davis’ revolutionary new book.

Forget everything you’ve been told about dieting (from your doctor, the food industry, dietitians, and wellness influencers). You’ve been led down the wrong path, which has caused you to believe that calorie restriction, weight-loss drugs such GLP-1 agonists, and bariatric procedures are effective solutions for weight loss. They are NOT, nothing more than Ponzi schemes with upfront benefits, long-term disasters. Conventional weight-loss solutions are effective in the short-term but are plagued by serious problems, including virtually guaranteed weight regain over time. Muscle mass is the critical determinant of weight and provides vigor, youthfulness, and overall health. When we diet, lost muscle is regained as fat, leaving us in worse shape than before.

In SUPER Body, Dr. William Davis, MD, bestselling author of Wheat Belly and Super Gut, reveals how we can restore our health and youthful contours by returning to ancestral nutrition practices, restoring beneficial microbes, and taking synergistic supplements. The solution to losing weight lies not in pharmaceuticals or procedures but rather in restoring factors lost from the modern human life experience, specifically microbes lost due to overexposure to antibiotics and other factors, and the restoration of nutrients lost due to misguided dietary advice. Complete with a three-week program to help kick-start your journey, and including easy-to-make recipes to enhance your efforts, SUPER Body will show you how to lose the weight naturally and permanently while restoring your youthful shape and body contours.

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$30.00

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Breaking Up with Dairy

by Bailey Ruskus

Foreword by Carleigh Bodrug

Make the switch to a dairy-free lifestyle—or simply consider a dietary change—without sacrificing flavor with this cookbook full of delicious recipes by Chef Bai.

Cheese can be the breaking point that keeps many from breaking up from dairy—because let’s face it, dairy is delicious. In Breaking Up With Dairy, Chef Bai shares over one hundred unbelievable plant-based dairy recipes.

Includes recipes that mimic beloved cheeses like Gorgonzola, Young Gruyere, Pepper-Jack, Parmesan, and more, which you can use in the following recipes:

-Baked Truffle Mac
-New York Style Spelt Bagels with Roasted Garlic Cream Cheese
-Breakfast Pizza Pockets with Hollandaise
-Mini Quiches
-Air-Fried Ricotta Balls with Ratatouille Sauce
-And so much more!

Breaking up with dairy doesn’t have to feel like a loss with these mouth-watering substitute dishes!

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$32.00

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$41.00 CAD

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PlantYou

by Carleigh Bodrug

Foreword by Dr. Will Bulsiewicz, MD

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Plant-based eating doesn’t have to be complicated! The delicious recipes in this easy-to-follow cookbook are guaranteed to keep you inspired and motivated.

Enter PlantYou, the ridiculously easy plant-based, oil-free cookbook with over 140+ healthy vegan recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, cheese sauces, salad dressings, dessert and more!

In her eagerly anticipated debut cookbook, Carleigh Bodrug, the Founder of the wildly popular social media community PlantYou, provides readers with the ultimate full color guidebook that makes plant-based meal planning, grocery shopping and cooking a breeze. With every single recipe, you will find a visual infographic marking the ingredients you need, making it easy to shop, determine portion sizes, and dive into the delicious and nutritious dishes.

Get ready for mouthwatering dishes like Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Breakfast Cookies, Best Ever Cauli Wings, and the Big BOSS Burrito that you simply won’t believe are made from plants. 

“An instant kitchen classic…In your quest to find delicious food that also promotes health, both human health and the health of the planet and the animals we share our world with, you’ve come to the right place.” 
—from the foreword by Dr. Will Bulsiewicz

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$30.00

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$38.00 CAD

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The Power Foods Diet

by Neal Barnard

With Dustin Harder

With Lindsay S Nixon

From a leading nutrition researcher, this diet book offers easy to follow guidance and meal plans so you can lose the weight and keep it off—without depriving yourself the way other diets require.

As a society, we keep looking for ways to lose weight—preferably ones that are simple, effective, and permanent. When properly chosen, certain foods cause weight loss, with no need for restriction and calorie counting.

In The Power Foods Diet, Dr. Neal Barnard reveals three breakthroughs that are supported by research, revealing that certain foods:

1. Reduce the appetite.
2. Trap calories so they are flushed away and cannot be absorbed.
3. Increase the body’s ability to burn calories for three hours after meals.

Dr. Barnard includes a simple to follow meal plan that includes delicious, and even indulgent recipes so that you can enjoy your meals while releasing weight.

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$30.00

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$39.00 CAD

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Finding Focus

by Zelana Montminy

A must-read action plan to reclaim your focus, direct your attention, and save your mind in an era of endless distraction.

Our brains are wired for focus. We are designed for it, we crave it, and yet in our current age of overload, we often feel like our minds are bolting from one distraction to the next, with sustained focus always just out of reach.  Finding Focus is an empowering guide to reclaiming your most precious resource: your attention. Leading behavioral scientist Dr. Zelana Montminy unveils the science behind focus and distraction, revealing how our hyperconnected reality and the endless flux between digital and physical life fragments our thoughts and diminishes our well-being. Finding Focus equips you with powerful strategies to: 

·       Silence the noise
·       Rewire your brain
·       Unleash your potential
·       Rediscover yourself

If we can control our attention and be present, if we choose when and how we engage, we have a greater sense of wellbeing, deeper fulfillment, and a clear purpose. Finding Focus invites you to ask the question “Where do I want to direct my focus today?” It is a call to arms for anyone yearning to break free from the grip of distraction and live a life brimming with purpose and connection.

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$29.00

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$38.00 CAD

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Deep Work

by Cal Newport

AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF 2O16 PICK IN BUSINESS & LEADERSHIP

WALL STREET JOURNAL BUSINESS BESTSELLER

A BUSINESS BOOK OF THE WEEK AT 800-CEO-READ

Master one of our economy’s most rare skills and achieve groundbreaking results with this “exciting” book (Daniel H. Pink) from an “exceptional” author (New York Times Book Review).

Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It’s a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep Work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like a super power in our increasingly competitive twenty-first century economy. And yet, most people have lost the ability to go deep-spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media, not even realizing there’s a better way.

In Deep Work, author and professor Cal Newport flips the narrative on impact in a connected age. Instead of arguing distraction is bad, he instead celebrates the power of its opposite. Dividing this book into two parts, he first makes the case that in almost any profession, cultivating a deep work ethic will produce massive benefits. He then presents a rigorous training regimen, presented as a series of four “rules,” for transforming your mind and habits to support this skill.

1. Work Deeply
2. Embrace Boredom
3. Quit Social Media
4. Drain the Shallows

A mix of cultural criticism and actionable advice, Deep Work takes the reader on a journey through memorable stories-from Carl Jung building a stone tower in the woods to focus his mind, to a social media pioneer buying a round-trip business class ticket to Tokyo to write a book free from distraction in the air-and no-nonsense advice, such as the claim that most serious professionals should quit social media and that you should practice being bored. Deep Work is an indispensable guide to anyone seeking focused success in a distracted world.

 

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$17.99

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$23.49 CAD

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Gentle

by Courtney Carver

From an expert on simplicity and minimalism, a collection of 30 practices to overcome chronic overwhelm, cultivate self-compassion, and find permission to do less–perfect for readers of Rest is Resistance and Wintering.

Being Gentle is about being grounded in self-compassion and a fierce commitment to less—becoming the Gentle You isn’t about taking the easy road. Organized into three parts—Rest, Less, and Rise—Courtney Carver’s Gentle provides simple challenges and practices that will help readers radically and gently shift their pace, headspace, and heart.

Becoming the Gentle You is a practice of real self-care that, over time, will soothe your nervous system and strengthen your relationships.

Gentle is the “don’t do it all” self-help book that promotes less stress and more joy by standing in your light and honoring the person you are. 

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$29.00

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$38.00 CAD

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End Emotional Outsourcing

by Beatriz Victoria Albina, NP, MPH, SEP

From a certified somatic life coach, a feminist guide to reclaiming your self-worth and having healthier relationships—perfect for readers of Burnout and The Body Is Not an Apology. 

Do you say “yes” when you mean “no”? Do you end up in lopsided relationships, feeling resentful but not sure how to speak up? Do you feel anxious, struggle with perfectionism and imposter syndrome, or feel like you’ve lost touch with your true self? You’re not alone: Thousands of people, especially those of us socialized as women, struggle with Emotional Outsourcing—a term nurse practitioner and life coach Beatriz Victoria Albina coined to describe the codependent habits that keep us stuck.      

In End Emotional Outsourcing, Albina explores the origins—both personal and systemic—of these tendencies, and coaches readers through a science-backed program of thought work and somatic practices. Readers will learn to: 

   ·Regulate their nervous systems
   ·Reframe their habitual thoughts and actions
   ·Take back their time and energy
   ·Improve relationships with parents, friends, and partners
   ·Discover their inherent self-worth and lovability

Groundbreaking, healing, and urgent, End Emotional Outsourcing is poised to change the conversation about codependency, and help an entire generation of women step into their power.  

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$30.00

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$40.00 CAD

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Why Do I Keep Doing This?

by Kati Morton, LMFT

Leading mental health advocate and licensed marriage and family therapist, Kati Morton, explores our common struggle and contradiction with control in ourselves and relationships, giving readers the ability to not only ask themselves whydo I keep doing this, but have the insight to find a real answer.

Many of us were told to stuff our feelings down when we were younger. We were taught that that our emotional reactions and responses should be controlled so we didn’t embarrass or upset our parents and those around us. However, if that control oozes over into our relationships it’s considered a bad thing. Controlling our friends or romantic partners is seen as toxic. Control is a precarious thing. Some sides of control are meant to keep us safe, while others harm connections. So, what are we supposed to do?

In Why Do I Keep Doing This? licensed family and marriage therapist , Kati Morton, explores this common struggle and contradiction with control. Kati shows how our upbringing and anxiety are often connected to our struggle to take up space. We can feel like we are too much by just existing in the same place as someone else, or that we are less deserving of their time and care. This struggle with asserting ourselves, or taking what we require can harm our development. We sometimes think the only way to feel okay and get what we need is to please everyone else first. Why Do I Keep Doing This? is a vital tool in helping us understand why control can be so attractive, but if left unmonitored can become detrimental to our lives. We all go through tough times and face uncertain futures, and we do what we can to cope, but as we get older and in an attempt to get wiser, we have to notice what behaviors are holding us back and change them.

Why Do I Keep Doing This? will shed light on shared struggles as readers follow Kati through some key points of growth in her own life while incorporating what she has learned as a therapist and content creator who knows how to create lasting healthy change. This book gives readers the ability to not only ask themselves why do I keep doing this? but also have the insight to find a real answer.

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$26.00

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$35.00 CAD

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Just Beyond the Light

by D. Randall Blythe

INSTANT PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER

“Unnervingly raw and honest, this book is timeless wisdom that was earned the hard way.”—Mark Manson, author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

From the author of Dark Days and lead singer of long-running extreme metal band, Lamb of God, a riveting and revelatory memoir about self-development and maintaining proper perspective through difficult times
 
In his gripping, bestselling debut memoir Dark Days, Lamb of God vocalist D. Randall (Randy) Blythe unflinchingly wrote about some of the most harrowing episodes of his past. 

Now, in his highly anticipated follow-up Just Beyond the Light, Blythe shares how he works daily to maintain positivity in a world that feels like it is spinning out of control. In his own words, Just Beyond the Light is a “tight, concise roadmap of how I have attempted to maintain what I believe to be a proper perspective in life, even during difficult times.” Written with a scathing balance of hard-edged reality offset by a knowing humor and a razor-sharp wit, voiced in in his inimitable, conversational, everyman-philosopher style, Blythe clearly breaks down his approach to life, which is a personal and idiosyncratic mix of sobriety, art, and surfing. He writes movingly of his childhood in the South, of fallen friends, of what he’s learned touring the world as the vocalist of a successful heavy metal band, and of the very real ways he is doing what he can to leave the world a better place. Above all, he offers readers hope that balance, real balance, is possible, even (or especially) when things seem hopeless. 
 
Compelling, compassionate, and refreshingly honest, Just Beyond the Light ultimately reminds readers that “as long as we keep our feet (and minds) planted firmly on the ground that is reality, the sky isn’t falling— it never has been, and it never will.”
 

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$31.00

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Less Is Liberation

by Christine Platt

From lifestyle trailblazer and author of The Afrominimalist’s Guide To Living with Less, a practical guide to move beyond decluttering your space and, instead, declutter your life.

Less Is Liberation welcomes those who are tired and weary to embark upon a journey of self-discovery. This is an invitation to understand the interconnectedness of overwhelm and our overall wellbeing.

     For years, the constant pursuit of success silently wreaked havoc on Christine Platt’s happiness and health. While taking a personal pause, Christine discovered how her limiting beliefs about selfishness led to self-abandonment and a life of overwhelm. So, she decided to use the same intentional living strategy that helped her reduce overconsumption: choose less.

     With the perfect balance of wit and wisdom, Christine shares the necessities to come into alignment with Self and offers a roadmap for anyone ready to do the same. Less Is Liberation is more than a self-help guide, it is a call-to-action to tap into our most underutilized superpower: being intentional with our choices.

• We do not have to have so many things—we can choose less.
• We do not have to have so many obligations—we can choose less.
• We do not have to have so many priorities—we can choose less.
• We do not have to have so many relationships that feel transactional—we can choose less.

 We must simply learn how to be intentional about honoring ourselves.

 Less Is Liberation is an invitation to pause and begin the beautiful work of choosing ourselves over the profit and pleasure of others. It invites us to let go of behaviors that hinder our growth. It is time to embrace less as a gateway to find freedom from our lives of overwhelm, and a pathway to the life we want and deserve. Because we are not here for a life of doing. We are here for a life of being.

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$28.00

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$36.00 CAD

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Black Girls Breathing

by Jasmine Marie

Harness the power of breathwork with this compassionate, healing guide for Black women.

As a Black woman, Jasmine Marie knows the impact that intergenerational trauma and systemic racism have had—and continue to have—on her community. Those experiences, along with her own journey through chronic stress, are why she created black girls breathing®, a movement dedicated to helping Black women understand the power of the mind‑body connection and its impact on their holistic health, one breath at a time.

Sharing breathwork exercises from her unique somatic philosophies, proven by data and utilized by tens of thousands of participants to date, Jasmine Marie will help you: 

• Connect more fully to your body
• Give yourself permission to rest
• Heal the chronic stress you carry in your body and nervous system
• Address emotional pain
• Rebuild your sense of self and your community

Black Girls Breathing is a long-overdue resource for every Strong Black Woman—the woman ready to break cycles of trauma, heal the internalized beliefs of perfectionism and conditional self‑worth, and follow the wisdom of her inner voice.

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$30.00

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$39.00 CAD

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When I Start My Business, I’ll Be Happy

by Sam Vander Wielen

An invaluable and practical guide to nurturing and protecting your online business while honoring yourself and your wellbeing, from the force behind Sam Vander Wielen LLC and host of the On Your Terms podcast.  

When I Start My Business, I’ll Be Happy does so much more than offer new entrepreneurs a way to establish the legal foundations of their businesses. Online entrepreneurship expert Sam Vander Wielen has developed a necessary resource for those who are new to doing business online, or who are ready to take their existing business to the next level. Vander Wielen presents practical, easy-to-implement business ideas and advice that covers all the ages and stages of entrepreneurship, such as: 

   ·how to anticipate (or avoid) the common early entrepreneurship pitfalls
   ·how to juggle  your personal life with your business
   ·how to find and build on your unique gifts   
   ·how to keep your business growing without losing yourself in the process

Entrepreneurship can be deeply rewarding, but not at the cost of your own self-care and well-being. When I Start My Business, I’ll Be Happy teaches readers that even when life doesn’t go smoothly as a business owner, you can still build and grow your own business—those bumps in the road will in fact make your business even stronger.

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$39.00 CAD

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All In

by Brent Gleeson

INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER! 

The award-winning author of Embrace the Suck and a Navy SEAL combat veteran reveals how to apply a deep focus in the pursuit of your goals—a book for anyone stuck in a personal or professional rut and seeking change.

Brent Gleeson, Navy SEAL combat veteran turned award-winning tech entrepreneur, 5X Inc. 500 CEO, and acclaimed speaker, has faced his fair share of hardship over the years, but nothing quite prepared him for the reckoning that would come when personal tragedy struck, forcing him to evaluate whether or not he was living up to his true potential.

In All In, Gleeson invites you on a journey of extraordinary growth, as he illuminates a new path for pursuing your passions with dedication, determination, and intentionality. No matter what you’ve dedicated yourself to—be it personal or professional—going all in requires unwavering commitment to our goals and values, leaving no room for doubt; it demands an alignment of heart, mind, and soul, anchored by a deep sense of self-awareness around what truly matters. Using the power of Relentless Routines, and featuring dozens of examples and lessons from influential historical and modern figures, Gleeson shows you how to:

• Break bad habits through purposeful routines –  install small, non-negotiable daily actions that compound momentum.
• Narrow your focus—pursue goals that actually matter –  say no with conviction and pursue the few goals that actually matter.
• Design better systems for optimal results –  simple, repeatable processes, and feedback loops that make progress inevitable.
• Embrace discomfort as fuel for growth –  use setbacks and obstacles as a training ground to build grit, skill, and confidence.

If you’re ready to overcome obstacles, exceed expectations, and pursue a life of meaning and impact, it’s time to go ALL IN.

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$40.00 CAD

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Inner Excellence

by Jim Murphy

Discover the transformative New York Times bestseller—a step-by-step manual for mastering your inner mind for peak performance and living your life to the fullest.

As a professional baseball player, Jim Murphy’s sense of worth revolved around results. He was focused on achievement but also afraid of failure. When he started coaching professional and Olympic athletes, he often encountered the same mindset. He became obsessed with learning how the best in the world performed with poise under pressure.

After years of research, Murphy had a revelatory insight: the pursuit of extraordinary performance and the pursuit of an exceptional life are the same path.

Filled with exercises, techniques, and tools, Inner Excellence trains your heart and mind, showing you how to:

·         Develop self-mastery—and let go of what you can’t control.

·         Overcome anxiety—and build powerful mental habits.

·         Remove mental blocks—and get out of your own way.

·         Train your subconscious mind—and release limiting beliefs.

Merging two decades of research and interviews with top athletes and leaders with this training system, Inner Excellence will put you on a path towards a more satisfactory and joyful life.

 

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$19.99

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$25.99 CAD

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Mission Driven

by Mike Hayes

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER 

Former Navy SEAL commander, White House Fellow, and nonprofit and business leader Mike Hayes offers an inspiring playbook for understanding and achieving your most rewarding and purposeful life.

Mission Driven offers a practical guide for transition points: young people, recent graduates, professionals shifting to new roles, or people shifting to find new balance in their lives. It is divided into two sections: The Long Game (figuring out who you want to be, how you define success, and what kind of impact you’re looking to have in your own life and the world) and The Short Game (moving readers from the who to the how, taking the learnings they’ve gathered in the first half of the book and applying them toward building their lives and finding their next great opportunities).

Its lessons include:
·Not What You Want To Be, But Who You Want to Be
·The Most Powerful Secret I Know: Helping Others Helps Us More
·Getting Comfortable Making Decisions
·Finding Enough In The Ways You Spend Your Time

Whether someone is at the beginning of their journey or, at any stage, looking for more, Mission Driven is a roadmap for discovering what drives you, and a playbook for translating those drives into opportunities. It is a book to help us satisfy our ambitions and our souls, filled with smart, empathetic guidance.

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$29.00

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$39.00 CAD

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Never Ask for the Sale

by Sue Heilbronner

Foreword by Brad Feld

A tech leader and executive coach’s actionable guide for anyone looking to supercharge their selling prowess and close the deal with authenticity and integrity. 

Sue Heilbronner launched an executive coaching, facilitation, and speaking solo entrepreneurial venture which grew from zero to $1 million in annual revenue in six years. Now, she offers her insight into salespersonship in an irreverent, direct, and actionable guide to success in sales.

Never Ask For The Sale goes beyond simple tips, and influences the reader’s overall understanding of selling. Sue Heilbronner shares decades of experience, stories, tools, and exercises to coach people to be more successful at achieving their goals by aligning their work with their greatest strengths, and marketing that cohesive story with a winning sales strategy: passionate ambivalence. Heilbronner introduces this concept as the strategic yet honest practice of presenting oneself as selective in the work they take on while enthusiastic about their area of expertise.

At the heart of the book is the notion that any successful seller, in any context, is fantastic at selling themself—whether that is within services in a solopreneur business, an early-stage startup, a college application, or a nonprofit mission. Never Ask For The Sale prompts deep self-awareness admixed with highly pragmatic calls to action at the intersection of coaching, personal growth, conscious leadership, and sales.

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$29.00

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$39.00 CAD

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Brand It Like Serhant

by Ryan Serhant

Embrace endless possibilities, disrupt the status quo, and turn ideas into empires.

Ryan Serhant knows that if you want to make millions or become a CEO, you have to build the brand first, and then success will follow. Your brand should reflect who you are becoming, not who you were yesterday. When he launched SERHANT. during the global pandemic, mediocrity wasn’t an option; it wouldn’t pay the bills. He needed a strong foundation, a bold voice, and the kind of presence that would attract top-tier clients. It was time to amplify his power.

Building a brand doesn’t happen overnight. You have to know what you can stomach, be willing to take big risks, and understand that this journey is going to be relentless. Running a brand means constant movement and constant evolution. Risk isn’t just about hustle, but it’s about finding your next major opportunity and knowing that success belongs to those who crush their fears. Money isn’t a monster; it’s a tool to help you grow.

Before Ryan became one of the most well-known real estate brokers, he was a penniless, failed actor and part-time hand model struggling to pay his bills. New to the real estate market, he quickly learned visibility was everything. The videos he made changed his trajectory. Post by post, Ryan connected with audiences and ultimately built the most recognizable real estate brand in the world right from his phone. In his latest book, he unveils the hacks and trade secrets to become unstoppable, and he also shares his tactics that are designed to sharpen your edge, make you stand out, and push you to fight hard for the big wins.

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$19.99

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$25.99 CAD

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Tidying the Abyss

by Amanda Dodson

A gentle, hands-on resource offering mental health-sensitive, disability-informed advice for those who do not have the privilege, bandwidth, or access to keep their home—and life—in a perfectly-ordered state.

Amanda Stuckey Dodson prided herself on her ability to maintain a peaceful, clean home: there wasn’t any mess that couldn’t be fixed by plastic organizing bins, spreadsheets, and a can-do attitude. When her life was upended by chronic illness, leaving her unable to maintain her elaborate cleaning systems, she learned that the hardest part wasn’t becoming organized, it was staying organized. Facing an unusually messy home, she knew she needed a different approach.
    Tidying the Abyss is a gentle, step-by-step guide to keeping house when everything around you is falling apart. Dodson, a clinical social worker turned professional organizer, advocates for the abandoning of perfection to make room for creative, livable solutions. No matter where you fall on the spectrum of being chronically ill, neurodivergent, or hopeless at home maintenance, you need more than just organizational tips- you need a practice. Within these pages you’ll find guidance for:

• Managing motivation and overwhelm;
• Addressing your basic needs with systems for trash, kitchen & dishes, and laundry;
• Creating order in your most-used spaces (think bedroom and bathroom); and
• Common life complications like pet-related chaos or managing housework as a caregiver or as a parent

When the dishes, the laundry, and the bills mercilessly persist, piling all around, Tidying theAbyss empowers you to face the chaos and define new standards for your home. With a little bit of compassion and patience, any mess can be cleaned up, one piece at a time.

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Never Date a Broke Dude

by Pattie Ehsaei

The definitive playbook for navigating love and money to secure your financial freedom forever—from licensed attorney, finance expert, and TikTok powerhouse Pattie Ehsaei.

Never Date a Broke Dude opens with the definition of a broke dude: someone, regardless of gender or wealth, who is unable or unwilling to match their partner in ambition, commitment, work ethic, or drive. 

In her real-world, big-sister tone, Pattie Ehsaei spills the tea on everything—from the secrets of trapped trophy wives and her dating missteps to ayahuasca-induced revelations and even murder-suicide, while transforming each jaw-dropping story into simple, actionable life advice. This four-part playbook moves from The Basics through Money, Work, and Power (or, Self-Worth), offering

• a five account system to pay off debt, fix credit, and start investing with just $100;
• career advice on how to dress well (and fund your wardrobe), work with confidence, choose the right retirement account, and negotiate raises; and
• rules to navigate finances across relationships—like who pays the bill, how to avoid financial abuse, what can and can’t be in a pre-nup, options for children’s savings accounts, and more.

Above all, choosing a partner is the biggest financial decision we ever make, and it’s time we stop running in blind. Never Date a Broke Dude is a juicy, seamless, game-changing read—a manual designed for reality: it’s How to Date Men When You Hate Men, but make sure your money stays yours.

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What Debt Demands

by Kristin Collier

A powerful memoir of a woman plunged into fraudulent debt that explores America’s broken student loan system and illuminates the ways that debt shapes every aspect of our lives.

At 22 years old, Kristin Collier was on the verge of college graduation, applying for a credit card to cover expenses before her teaching career began. But to her shock, she learned that she didn’t qualify for even the lowest line of credit. In fact, she had a shocking amount of debt already: a handful of credit card debts and dozens of private student loans, which she’d known nothing about. In total, she owed over $200,000. How could this have happened?

What Debt Demands is a nuanced and poignant meditation on indebtedness and its consequences. Kristin paints a vivid portrait of her own experience with personal debt, navigating the complex student lending system alongside her evolving relationship with the person who stole from her, a family member she loved and trusted. Weaving in interviews with student borrowers, historical analysis, cultural critique, and research into the higher education system, she reveals debt’s profound impact on every aspect of our lives, our relationships, and our world.

As Kristin explores how and why our nation arrived here and what it will take to heal her own financial and familial wounds, What Debt Demands illuminates the unjust world that already exists and points to a better one: a world where all students, regardless of race or wealth, can access free education. And one in which we are not bound to the state but to each other.

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Get The F*ck Out Your Own Way

by MJ Harris

An Amazon Editors Pick

“You can trust him.” –Tabitha Brown

IT AIN’T EASY GETTING YOUR SHIT TOGETHER 
THIS BOOK IS THE SOLUTION

If any of this sounds like you, it’s best you start reading this book now!

• You seek more fulfilling relationships and dating experiences
• You’re ready to shake off shame about past mistakes and step into your power
• You want to say “see ya” to the toxic people and emotional gut-punchers
• Your “people pleaser” days are over and it’s time to learn how to effectively say no

MJ Harris has got a lot of “best friends”—over five million to be exact. His hilarious, straightforward, raw advice has made him the go-to person across social media for everything you need to know about getting your shit together. 
 
He knows you need help—whether financial, spiritual, or in a relationship—because you never learned how to properly handle the hurt and anger you’ve experienced in the past, it has become the emotional trash in the way of being your best self. Don’t nobody want that!
 
Whether it’s fixing your family issues, situationships, money, or frenemies, MJ offers sage advice about how to stop blocking yourself from bigger and better things.
 
This isn’t your gentle guide on breathing or journaling. MJ serves up no holds barred advice on how to navigate your emotions that will help you disrupt cycles of trauma, create boundaries, and transform into a goddess of emotional wholeness. Get the F*ck Out Your Own Way will help you learn how to make better choices and decisions. It will set you on the right path for a happier emotional life once and for all.
 

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Word Witch

by Kate Belew

Foreword by Robin Rose Bennett

A practical guide to using witchcraft and the power of the written word to develop a magical creative practice.

Word Witches are spellcasters of language. They are storytellers, poets, writers, and ritualists who know that writing anything is a form of channeling: spirits, ancestors, collective dreams, and their most authentic and surprising selves. Word Witch is a joyful guide and companion, helping writers build a creative practice rooted in magic.
 
Writer and witch Kate Belew invites readers to craft altars of language, offering simple writing rituals that will spark inspiration and equip writers to build their own thriving creative writing practice. Readers will learn to conjure creativity and imagination, defy the silence of writer’s block, build a circle of community support, and cast spells that spread magic across the page. Much like the movements of the moon and the earth’s seasons, creativity also has cycles that readers will learn to expect and embrace. Word Witch encourages creatives to reclaim their imagination and give themselves permission to write freely, expressively, and magically.

Weaving together magic and creativity, paying homage to the intrinsic power of words to conjure and shape our lives, Word Witch guides readers across the page as they undergo the alchemy of becoming writers. 

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Move. Think. Rest.

by Dr. Natalie Nixon, Ph.D

We’re experiencing a human revolution—not a tech revolution

Natalie Nixon, known as the creativity whisperer, helps corporate leaders catalyze creativity’s ROI for more inspired business results. In Move. Think. Rest. she reveals how the best organizations allow the personal and the professional to converge at strategic moments, which often come when we step away from our desks and phones. According to Nixon, it is this MTR framework (pronounced “motor”)—which allows us to make time for strategic thinking, prevent burnout, build leadership resilience and redefine performance for the Imagination Era.

Nixon’s MTR framework (Movement, Thought, and Rest) will change the way you work. And it will do so without demanding that you adhere to a rigid protocol or life-hack the liveliness out of your working hours. When you allow yourself to pause, unabashedly pay attention to your emotions, and allow your intuition to guide you, then you achieve fluency, ease, and even greater productivity. Move. Think. Rest. will help you shift the ways you work and live.

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Safe Danger

by Ben Swire

An award-winning designer and former Design Lead at the iconic innovation firm IDEO teaches how to use small, creative risks to build trust, inspire connection, and supercharge employee engagement.

In a world where safety easily becomes stagnation and risk is seen as a threat, Ben Swire’s counterintuitive book, Safe Danger, offers a refreshing perspective on how playful creativity can balance those two forces to unlock personal and professional growth.

Ask people what they want from life and you’ll hear: inspiring experiences, exciting work, meaningful relationships, and making a difference. But ask how they’re doing on that wish list, and you’ll likely find it’s still just that: a wish list. That’s because those things require intimidating risks like vulnerability, disappointment, and trust. As a result, we end up with a chasm between what we want and what we’re willing to do to get it. In Safe Danger, Ben Swire has developed a suite of creative activities that combine safety and risk to spur emotional growth.

Drawing on the latest research and years of experience, this entertaining book explains how and why his playful approach is so effective at helping people manage fear and make change. Swire delves into seven powerful qualities that the Safe Danger method can unlock to help people bring out the best in themselves and their teams: joy, vulnerability, curiosity, optimism, connection, trust, and creativity. Full of practical activities and inspiring insights, Safe Danger is for business professionals and creative types—especially those who feel stuck or dissatisfied with their company’s work culture or career trajectory.

Whether you’re a leader looking to engage your team, a professional seeking to infuse your career with new life, or an individual striving to get more out of your time on earth, Safe Danger offers the tools and insights you’ve been missing. Discover how to embrace the unexpected, fuel your creativity, and inspire those around you with the transformative power of “Safe Danger.”

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BodyTalk

by Erica Hornthal

Continuing the conversation started in The Body Keeps the Score and The Complex PTSD Workbook, this book is a guide to reestablishing connection to your body in order to process difficult emotions, improve mental health, and feel secure in your own skin. 

Everything in your life comes down to how connected you are to your own body. When things feel out of alignment, overwhelming or “too much,” it’s a sign that you’ve already lost communication with yourself and the physical sensations within your body that let you know something is not right. Many of us have difficulty even fathoming what a healthy relationship with our body is. We are overscheduled, overcommitted, and overwhelmed, making it difficult to pay attention to what is happening in the present moment. Many of us have spent years disconnected from our physical sensations, and the thought of reestablishing a healthy connection to the body feels impossible and we don’t even know where to begin. 

Through daily movement exercises and mindful reflection, BodyTalk will help readers form healthy boundaries and relationships with their own bodies in order to move through challenging emotions and feelings, as well as begin to find balance and a sense of vitality. 

Over 365 days, you will be guided into more awareness as you’re gently challenged to connect and communicate with your body. Through a combination of movement exercises and body-centered journal prompts, you can find your way back to yourself—your worth, value, confidence, even identity.

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How to Menopause

by Tamsen Fadal

Foreword by Lisa Mosconi, PhD

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • USA TODAY BESTSELLER • PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY BESTSELLER • Next Big Idea Club Must Read Book 

EXPERT-DRIVEN, GIRLFRIEND-APPROVED • The perimenopause and menopause manual that cuts through the chaos so you can take back control of your body, your confidence, and your life—from Emmy award-winning journalist, documentary filmmaker, and social media powerhouse Tamsen Fadal.

If you’re ready to feel like yourself again, this book is “the talk” you never had.

Packed with actionable steps and evidence-based tools from a team of 42 experts including neuroscientists, menopause-certified physicians, sex and relationship therapists, sleep doctors, and a variety of lifestyle mentors, and synthesizing research, stories, and strategies in a way that only a journalist can, Tamsen Fadal helps you

• be your best advocate in a medical system not designed to treat women in midlife;
• understand the options that tame your symptoms, whether it’s hormone therapy, supplements, or lifestyle changes;
• implement science-backed strategies to get the best sleep of your life;
• be able to talk to your partner about sex, low libido, painful intercourse, or how your hormones might be impacting your relationship;
• embrace your style (hair, makeup, clothes) to match your changing body;
• learn simple workouts, skincare tips, and delicious recipes to deal with belly fat, dry skin, and hair loss (and don’t worry, it’s not all kale salads);
• navigate menopause in the workplace—and much, much more.

How to Menopause answers all the questions you didn’t know to ask, and brings you into a conversation with millions of other women. Together, we can embrace a stronger, sexier self at every stage of midlife–from perimenopause through menopause and into our “bolden” years.

“How to Menopause is more than just advice—it provides a lifeline. Through her honesty, humor, research, and relentless commitment to women’s health, Tamsen Fadal has created a guide that is both practical and deeply personal. Whether you’re just beginning to experience perimenopause or well into this transition, these words will leave you feeling more confident, more informed, and most importantly—never alone.” —Lisa Mosconi, PhD, New York Times bestselling author of The Menopause Brain

“For all of those millions of women out there, struggling with learning how to deal with menopause, Tamsen Fadal has written the menopause Bible! Ladies you will see yourself reflected in page after page. You will no longer feel alone by being 100% seen. It’s also full of ways to begin managing this new glorious phase of life!” – Halle Berry
 

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The Perimenopause Survival Guide

by Heather Hirsch

Foreword by Avrum Bluming

Dr. Heather Hirsch, renowned founder of the Menopause Clinic at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and featured expert on Oprah Winfrey’s The Life You Want series, offers a groundbreaking, expert-led guide to not only navigate—but truly thrive—through perimenopause.

Perimenopause, the transitional phase before menopause, can feel like one of the most disorienting and unspoken chapters in a woman’s life. From hot flashes and brain fog to anxiety, back pain, and sleep disruption, the symptoms are real, but the guidance often isn’t. Too many women between the ages of 35 and 50 find themselves confused, dismissed, or unsupported by their providers.

The Perimenopause Survival Guide is a clear, compassionate, and evidence-based resource from one of the most trusted voices in women’s hormonal health. Dr. Heather Hirsch draws on her years of clinical experience to help women understand what’s happening in their bodies, and how to take charge of their care.
In this essential guide, you’ll learn:

• What’s really driving your symptoms and how to decode them
• Proven, FDA-approved treatment options—plus how to evaluate what’s right for you
• The importance of managing perimenopause now for long-term health
• How to advocate for yourself and build a care plan around your individual needs and goals

Whether you’re just starting to notice subtle changes or already deep in the hormonal rollercoaster, The Perimenopause Survival Guide empowers you with clarity, confidence, and the tools to feel like yourself again.

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The Big M

by Lidia Yuknavitch

For readers of Kink and What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About, an anthology from a bestselling author that redefines the way we think about menopause—”leaves you feeling informed, empowered, and more connected to yourself and others on the journey” (Nedra Glover Tawwab, New York Times bestselling author of Set Boundaries, Find Peace).

This is narrative medicine at its finest: Lidia Yuknavitch and 12 of today’s sharpest, most daring writers break the silence. They are here to reclaim the story of menopause—for all of us and those on the way, because we are not the story they made of us. This is a new story, told on our own terms—a long overdue reckoning.
 

Exploring themes of freedom and mortality, sexuality and the patriarchy, The Big M is a chorus of voices, each writer navigating the profound changes in their bodies and lives in their own fiercely individual way. Funny, subversive, insightful, and deeply human, these stories form a living constellation—one you might take into your life in times of duress, transformation, or awakening.

The Big M includes work from a diverse group of influential writers, including: Roxane Gay, Cheryl Strayed, Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Reyna Grande, Joey Soloway, Nana-Ama Danquah, Gina Frangello, Monica Drake, Lan Samantha Chang, Julia Alvarez, Darcey Steinke, and Pam Houston.
 

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It’s All Within You

by Millana Snow

For fans of How We Heal and Becoming the One, a global wellness leader offers a counterpoint to the modern culture of relying on external therapies and supplements for healing, guiding readers to their own innate capacity to trust and heal themselves with the tools they already have access to

We live in a world where we’re told we need weekly therapy, a stack of expensive daily supplements, and a two-hour morning routine before we can expect to feel better about ourselves. Let alone handle the daily struggle of living in a modern world where everything seems to be falling apart. And while there are so many ways to “feel better” and “do more,” -our biggest issue today is that we have forgotten that we already have everything we need inside of us.

It’s All Within You shifts the focus from chasing external quick fixes to recognizing and trusting your innate wholeness. Global wellness expert, Millana Snow, reminds us of our inherent power to heal and transform ourselves by coming home to ourselves. Drawing on her thirty years of exploration in meditation, healing and spirituality, Millana shares the seven essential principles that serve as starting points to begin personal transformation from the inside out—awareness, presence, cultivation, integration, grieving, faith, and rest. Backed by real-life examples and practices that she’s taught to thousands of people, these principles will foster a deeper awareness of the effects of personal and collective trauma so you can tackle the stress and daily struggles of your life head on, rather than just managing the symptoms.

It’s All Within You is a manifesto that considers us all healers. When we recognize our power and choose to make healing a way of life, we shift from being passively formed by our circumstances to forming our life as we choose.
 

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Ask Your Spirit

by Christine Lang

Written by leading medical intuitive and energy healer, Christine Lang, this practical and accessible guide goes beyond the “trust your gut” trope so often associated with tapping into your intuition by teaching readers how to converse directly with their enlightened spirit.

What if your broken foot is a warning not to accept that new job? What if you got the flu not because of ‘bad luck,’ but as a cosmic gift to keep you away from a family gathering that became a toxic bloodbath? What if all of your chronic symptoms are hints, pointing you towards a better life, if only you could decipher the clues? Ask Your Spirit answers these questions by teaching you how to converse directly with your spirit. The connection to this invaluable resource provides you with personalized guidance on health, relationships, and career dilemmas.

Unlike many spiritual books that simply help you “increase your intuition” or offer general tips on connecting to spirit guides, esteemed medical intuitive Christine Lang provides a detailed, step-by-step process for establishing a practical dialogue with the wisest part of you that’s committed to spiritual growth in this lifetime. This ongoing conversation with your inner wisdom is like having your spirit on speed dial.

You’ll learn how to discern between your soul’s voice and your ego’s voice so you can start trusting your spirit’s priorities, decoding its messages, and understand the expiration date of your messages. Along with client-centered success stories and testimonials from medical professionals, you’ll see exactly how these practices offer life-changing results.  

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Living in Wisdom

by Devi Brown

From Devi Brown, master well-being educator, this full-bodied guide offers inside-out advice for getting unstuck, relieving your internal suffering, and harnessing the power of your authentic self for true personal growth.
 
We endure so much over the course of our lives. Some of it is beautiful; some of it traumatic and sometimes, that trauma can keep us from realizing and embracing all the good we cultivate; our successes and achievements and positive relationships. 
 
This book is for those who feel like something in life is missing, like they want to change some aspect of their lives or themselves, but are being held back as they are denying the true origin of these feelings … so they are stuck. They may be high-achievers and externally, their life looks perfect, yet they are struggling to accept themselves, or even like themselves. They lack the tools, self-trust and personal power to make their ideal life real.
 
In this space, Devi Brown offers help for those struggling to recognize the barriers that keep them from experiencing joy, vulnerability, and self-knowledge. Sharing the wisdom she has gathered as a healer and master well-being educator, Brown guides readers along the path to self-mastery through a combination of spirituality, psychology, ancient wisdom traditions, edgy holistic self-care, and her own inspiring and surprising life experiences. Readers will: 

• Learn aligned decision-making
• Gain practices to alleviate internal suffering
• Expand awareness of their unhelpful patterns 
• Discover an integrated approach to self-love and self-acceptance 
• Live in embodied wellness 

For all those seeking self-improvement, this is an essential manual for getting out of your head and into your life. It is a full-bodied approach to total transformation of mind, body, and spirit.  You can heal your life while fully living it. You can learn from life while enjoying it. You can cultivate a stable inner peace even amidst chaos, and release control to find the flow for your life’s unique path. 

 

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Kiku

by Haru Yamada

Inspired by the Japanese concept of kiku—a more engaged, empathetic style of listening—a sociolinguistics researcher and writer offers a ground-breaking guide to more intentional and meaningful communication. 

No other life form turns noise into sound, sound into language, then language into understanding quite the way we humans do when we listen. As a sociolinguist who grew up in different places with very different languages, Haru Yamada has always been fascinated with the way people navigate their day listening to language systems that code the world in such dramatically different ways. And it was as Haru was recovering in the ICU from an accident that had inflicted a permanent hearing disability when she rediscovered the extraordinary benefit found in the science of listening—the critical intelligence we need to learn and grow and get better.  

Now, Haru Yamada offers a practical guide to more effective listening as a perceptive, creative exercise. We don’t just listen to what people say and don’t say, we reconstruct what someone else is saying and doing and meaning and feeling. Listening is a skill that requires our physical ear and brain power and the effort of our creative mind and social heart to remix what we hear from others and recreate it within ourselves. Kiku will allow you to harness the vital energy of listening to connect, sustain, and enhance the relationships you have with your friends, families, and professional teams.

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Traveling in Bardo

by Ann Tashi Slater

A luminous guide to navigating transition and impermanence rooted in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of bardo. 

In a world where nothing lasts forever, how do we live? Life is perpetually, endlessly filled with change: new jobs and new loves, unfamiliar places and faces. And entwined in that change is loss: loss of what was or is, or what could have been. In the midst of this shifting landscape, Traveling in Bardo invites us to embrace impermanence in a powerful way, rooted in ancient wisdom.
 
Interweaving explorations of bardo in relation to marriage and friendship, parents and children, work and creativity with stories of her Tibetan ancestors and the Buddhist teachings on the fleeting nature of existence, Ann Tashi Slater illuminates what the teachings have to tell us in our contemporary lives. She relays vital wisdom from Tibetan culture, giving us a bold, new framework to navigate moments of change and live life fully.
 
During over forty years of writing and speaking about her Tibetan-American heritage and the relevance of Buddhism in Western society, Slater has come to see how Tibetan bardo views on impermanence can transform the way we live. In Tibetan belief, bardo is the interval between death and rebirth, as well as the intermediate state between birth and death. It also refers to liminal periods in life when the reality we know comes to an end. A time of great possibility, it offers us the opportunity to find happiness in an impermanent world.
 

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Joy Prescriptions

by Tiffany Moon, MD

NATIONAL BESTSELLER 

Doctor by day and Bravo’s Real Housewife by night, Tiffany Moon has a prescription for releasing perfectionism and finding joy! 

“A must-read for anyone seeking more balance, purpose, and joy at home and at work.” —Barbara Corcoran, Shark Tank real estate mogul and business expert

As a self-proclaimed “good girl,” Tiffany was a people pleaser and an A-student, fitting into the roles that were prescribed by her Chinese American family. As a lifelong overachiever, she accomplished a thriving career as an anesthesiologist. Yet Tiffany felt unfulfilled. She spent more time at work than at home with her family, didn’t know how to say “no” to anyone, and was governed by perfectionist standards. 

In Joy Prescriptions, Tiffany shares her journey to reconnect with herself. In order to feel whole, she had to drop the perfectionist trope and focus on rediscovering who she was. Tiffany abandoned other people’s expectations and ultimately discovered how to live for her true self. She put herself first and embraced more creativity and laughter. Taking surprising chances on herself, she started a candle business, starred on a reality TV series, tried her hand at stand-up comedy, and became a social media influencer.

Joy Prescriptions is a must-read if you want to add more spark and joy to your life. Tiffany offers a healthy dose of introspection and healing that will release you from the constrained expectations of others and inspire you to design a joyful life that is more authentically you!

“Tiffany’s hard-earned wisdom and heartfelt stories remind us that true wealth is all about creating a life that feels rich in every way.” —Vivian Tu, New York Times bestselling author of Rich AF

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