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A deeply moving new novel about life and art from one of America's greatest writers.

Livia Cable has made her peace with her marriage and modest livelihood in the farm country where she grew up, until a shocking phone call from an old lover shakes her to the core. Decades earlier, this man knew her as Livia Bohusz, a music conservatory student estranged from her home and family, uncertain of anything except her passion for music and promise as an extraordinary pianist. His request, now, to see her again stirs up ghosts she's kept at bay for a lifetime.

Shifting between past and present, Livia's decision to meet or reject the reunion means confronting step by step, in memories framed as musical dances, the experiences of childhood loss, abandonment, self-immolating passion, and perilous attachment to a man who broke her belief in love and ruptured the course of her life.

With razor-sharp acuity and deep affection, Pulitzer Prize winner Barbara Kingsolver's unforgettable new novel reflects on class barriers, the risks of ambition, and the timeless love affair between life and art.

Take a road trip . . . back to where it all started.

For years, the true origins of Gravity Falls have been hidden under lock and key. Now, for the first time ever, series creator Alex Hirsch and cowriter Rob Renzetti crack open the vault to reveal the definitive visual history of Gravity Falls.

Inside The Art of Gravity Falls, you'll find never-before-revealed development art from Alex Hirsch's personal archives, including first inklings of the characters and world, lost episode ideas, cut jokes, deviously hidden easter eggs, every single one of Mabel's sweaters, and much, much more!

With interviews from the creative team and a foreword by animation legend James Baxter, The Art of Gravity Falls is a celebration of the incredible artists behind the beloved series, and a blueprint for creatives who want to turn their own ideas into animated worlds.

The Mystery Shack is waiting. . . . Are you ready to step inside?

"A deeply felt memoir of race and history that defies social erasures of the diasporic Palestinian experience, They Told Me Back Home Would Be Beautiful boldly explores how politicized identities, especially within the US, are shaped and manipulated by broader agendas." --The Whiting Award Judges Citation

In the tradition of Safiya Sinclair's How to Say Babylon and Cathy Park Hong's Minor Feelings, a stirring and poignant memoir that follows Elena Dudum's transformational journey as she interrogates her evolving relationship to Palestine.

My father scours the internet for century-old magazines about Palestine. For years, he would talk about these mysterious documents but rarely show them to anyone. "I have proof," he would say to whoever would listen, "that Palestine exists."

As a child, Elena Dudum understood Palestine as a place too important for maps--mythical and just out of reach. In her Palestinian Christian household in San Francisco, Ramallah and Jaffa existed first in her father's voice. She was raised on stories that felt more like warnings, his lectures pushing against the threat of forgetting. But as those lessons began to eclipse everything else, Elena found herself shrinking from an inheritance that felt both sacred and suffocating.

Elena's first trip to Palestine shattered distance. Checkpoints, razed olive groves, soldiers--it was all plainly in front of her, as were the ghosts of her family's history. What had once felt mythical now pressed against her body. The visit left her unsettled, gripped by an anxiety she could not name. Back in the United States, her relationships and psyche quietly unraveled as she tried to outrun what she had seen. She buried herself in elite institutions and the rising world of tech, where ambition was rewarded and history was inconvenient. In time, she would have to decide whether success was worth the silence it required.

Eventually, the inheritance she had tried to escape demanded reckoning.

Braiding rich personal narrative with history, archival fragments, and cultural critique, They Told Me Back Home Would Be Beautiful traces one woman's journey as she returns--slowly, deliberately--to her father's lessons, determined to claim them on her own terms.

Order the DELUXE LIMITED EDITION of Kiss of the Black Flame now--only available on the first printing while supplies last! This stunning, collectible hardcover edition features stenciled edges, a hardcover jacket with foil effects, custom-illustrated endpapers, and a foil-stamped case.

From the internationally bestselling author of the Legends of Thezmarr series comes an epic romantasy trilogy about a gifted bookbinder and a cursed immortal general bound together by a dangerous magical bargain.

Some bargains are sealed with blood. Others with fire. The deadliest are sealed with a kiss...

Saige Grayson has always believed stories could heal--even when her own body refuses to. As the most promising bookbinder in the capital, she's learned to work through chronic pain and crushing debt, restoring other people's treasures while trying not to fall apart herself. But when the man she owes decides her rare talent is worth more than her payments, Saige is traded to the Azkari--an immortal race forged by the gods for war--and imprisoned in their ancient stronghold. Her only chance of survival lies with Archer, a fallen Azkari general imprisoned beside her--cursed, dangerous, and impossible to ignore. He offers her a way out, and in return, Saige must help him retrieve and restore an ancient book. But the book is made of living magic, powerful enough to stop a great evil--or unleash it. And as Saige works with Archer, the tome begins to awaken something dark and dangerous--both in the realm and within her. As their enemies close in and buried memories resurface, Saige and Archer must decide what they're willing to sacrifice: their freedom, their fragile trust...or the spark that could ignite the world.

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Ringmaster and the Hugo finalist True Believer, a propulsive and stylish account of Beck, who was received as a pop messiah in the 1990s, but whose closest friends and most devoted fans never knew his buried secrets.

Once upon a time, there was a man who made himself into a myth.

He went by a single name: Beck. He sang songs that didn't make easy sense in plain English, but which were somehow urgent and undeniable to those who heard them. He mined a dizzying array of musical styles from the past to construct albums that were eminently of the zeitgeist. Before and after the smash success of his 1993 single "Loser," he was the hardest-working slacker in America. He went platinum multiple times over. And for a time, he was regarded by journalists and devoted fans alike as the "pop messiah"--a title that referred not just to the new energy he brought to the radio and MTV, but to the devotion he inspired.

But something happened to Beck Hansen, right at the dawn of this century. His music, once defiant and bombastic, turned morose and inward-facing. It was more than just a musical shift. Beck destroyed the online forum where his devoted fans had gathered. He cut ties with the small collective of LA-based bohemians he'd come up alongside, surrounding himself instead with sycophants and celebrities. Beck had been born and raised in the Church of Scientology; many in his orbit feared he'd been pulled back to the faith.

In the years since, Beck's music has continued to win accolades, including multiple Grammys. But the true story of Beck in the nineties and beyond has never been told.

With sensitivity and an arrestingly original style, New York Times bestselling author Josephine Riesman offers a vivid and multifaceted look at a singular artist and the Generation Xers for whom he became a reluctant spokesman. Drawing from interviews with those who've been closest to Beck, as well as troves of never-before-published documents, Riesman offers a story about authenticity and irony, paranoia and belief. Situated at the last gasp of the millennium, it's more than a simple biography--it's a riveting drama about the blurry lines between fandom and worship; between myth and lies; and between the old world that is dying and the new one that still struggles to be born.

A socialite living in late-1930s New York City disappears without a trace in Unseasonably Cold, Amy Ephron's elegant, melancholy noir of secrets, misapprehensions, and deceptions.

Replete with beautifully observed period detail and sharply drawn characters, Unseasonably Cold is classic storytelling, a mystery crafted with an artist's eye. Rendered in Ephron's lovely, austere literary prose, it is utterly worthy of the era it depicts, when the polite mask of high society's mannered calm disguised the turbulence just beneath; a mirror for the terrible events swirling in Europe at the lead-up to the Second World War.

"Altogether intriguing-haunting, even-and I couldn't have enjoyed myself more."

- Benjamin Dreyer, author of the New York Times bestseller Dreyer's English

"Atmospheric. Propulsive. Captivating. Pure Amy."

- Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The View from Lake Como

"I was enthralled from the first page to the very last. A fascinating, compelling read that I thought about for a long time after. It's not a book to be missed."

- Jill Santopolo, New York Times best-selling author of The Light We Lost

In a historically unprecedented collaboration, leading futurist and bestselling author Jamie Metzl partners with the AI system GPT-5 to demonstrate a breathtaking possibility: that advanced artificial intelligence, guided by human ethics and wisdom, can help shape a more humane future. At a moment of rapid AI disruption, growing concern about AI governance, and deep uncertainty about the future of technology, this groundbreaking work reveals how we can partner with advanced AI to foster peace, understanding, and responsible decision-making-if we are ready to listen.

In The AI Ten Commandments: A New Moral Code for Humanity, Metzl and GPT-5:

• Draw on humanity's deepest historical, philosophical, religious, spiritual, indigenous, and humanist traditions to distill ten clear, universal principles for navigating our emerging Human + AI era.
• Weave together artificial intelligence ethics, philosophy of technology, AI governance, and human responsibility.
• Invite us to see ourselves. our relationship to powerful technologies, and our future in a new light.

Urgent, hopeful, and deeply accessible, The AI Ten Commandments is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand artificial intelligence, ethics, philosophy, and the future of humanity. Metzl calls us to imagine a future in which our technologies can amplify not only our intelligence and innovation, but also our moral clarity, shared responsibility, and wisdom.

The debut book from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Taylor Sheridan, creator of Landman and cocreator of Yellowstone--a no-bullsh*t, darkly funny survival guide to life inside a maximum-security prison, cowritten with prison-hardened ex-con Tom Nelson.

So, you f*cked up. Can't talk your way out of it, buy your way out of it, or beg your way out of it.

You are going to prison. You will be living under a set of rules made up by men who have demonstrated to society that they need a big ol' time out. There is no book of these rules. Nobody will tell them to you. But when you break one--boy, will you know it. For the newbie, the fish, the fresh meat--this book is your survival guide. How to mind your business without becoming a target. When to walk away. When to stand your ground.

This is how you don't die. Follow the advice in this book, and you just might make it out alive.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry returns with an irresistible, delightful, and tender story about a young man whose life turns upside down when he is hired by the most prestigious, secretive, and dysfunctional poetry journal in the world: the renowned Peck & Peck of New York City.

Batter Gray is worried about his future. Even when he was eleven, his classmates seemed to have settled on a goal: doctor, lawyer, broker, engineer. Good jobs that automatically command respect, security, 401Ks. Now Batter is in his early twenties, living in New York City, and he wants something different; something that alienates some readers and bores most. Poetry. And yet--to him and exactly thirty-nine editors at a company called Peck & Peck--poetry not only represents the power of humanity but holds the key to its survival.

Batter is named after his mother's heroic dog. An identical twin who lost his brother at birth, he finds himself confronted by the everyday dualities that make up life: right vs. wrong, truth vs. lies, rejection vs. acceptance. It's almost as if his dead brother is a reminder: there are always two sides to every story.

No, wait. Make that three.

In this debut collection from the most mind-bending new voice in webcomics, Beetle Moses delivers sharp, surreal, and endlessly quotable humor with vibrant, expressive artwork.

"Banger after Banger, not a dud in sight" - Sarah Andersen, NY Times Bestselling author of Sarah's Scribbles

Harris Fishman, known professionally as Beetle Moses, has quickly become one of the most original voices in contemporary comics. His self-titled series--a stream of beautifully bizarre panels starring aliens, apes, bugs, dinosaurs, and deep-sea creatures--has earned a devoted following on social media and made waves across comic circles and in the mainstream. Surreal, unexpected, and relentlessly funny, the work stands at the tip of the spear for a new wave of comic strips. With an outsider, lived-in spirit, the comic feels simultaneously futuristic and timeless. Often described as the Far Side of the modern era, Beetle Moses is an entirely new creation combining vibrant art and absurdist wit with thieving gorillas and philosophical protozoa. This collection gathers his most beloved strips alongside new, never-before-seen work for fans and newcomers alike.

"...a blueprint for those in MAGA who can no longer justify the lies of Donald Trump."Joe Walsh, Former United States Representative

"This book is a public apology. I am profoundly sorry for the damage I caused during the seven years I was in the MAGA movement. I contributed to the assault on our democracy. I exacerbated the harm caused to others in MAGA. Now I am holding myself accountable by working to make amends."

So begins One Betrayal Too Many, Why I Left MAGA by Rich Logis, former MAGA activist, podcaster, and commentator. Logis takes us on a deeply personal and agonizing journey from disillusionment with the MAGA movement to founder of the nonprofit Leaving MAGA.

One Betrayal Too Many attracts readers across political lines because it's not a partisan manifesto -it's a human story about how democracy erodes-and how it can be defended-one conscience at a time.

As millions of Americans remain trapped inside a movement fueled by fear, grievance, and misinformation, One Betrayal Too Many offers something rare: a bridge. It speaks directly to those who feel uneasy but are afraid to leave-and to those who want to help loved ones without pushing them further away.

Unlike books written about MAGA from the outside, One Betrayal Too Many is written from within. Logis does not present himself as a victim or hero. Instead, he offers a rare and unsparing act of accountability: a public apology for the role he played in spreading disinformation, dehumanization, and fear-and a blueprint for how people can leave extremist movements without losing their dignity, identity, or community.

The book opens with a foreword by former Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger, who places Logis' personal story within the larger fight to preserve constitutional democracy.

"Rich tells the tale of his odyssey with great honesty, forthrightness, and most importantly, humility...He appreciates that many in the movement are motivated by a love of country, because he was one of them. From Adam Kinzinger's foreword

A sweeping memoir of seven seasons spent living in Antarctica, and what it means to push past the boundaries of the known world and your own limits.

Humans have romanticized Antarctica for centuries. To Stephanie Krzywonos, Antarctica is a place to search for answers--and something larger than herself.

Hungry for the sublime and haunted over her best friend's tragic death, Stephanie leaves her entire life behind to live in Antarctica as an ordinary worker and tests the limits of survival. Over six polar summers and one astonishing winter, she encounters adorable penguins, colossal glaciers, and whiteout storms. In old explorers' huts, the traces of ghosts show the extremes to which people are willing to go to find peace. In this rare account of an Antarctic winter, the sun disappears for over four months, and Stephanie reckons with Antarctica's complicated past alongside her own grief and desire to live--all while auroras, the moon, sunrise, and darkness itself nourish her. Antarctica has come to symbolize despair and hope in a rapidly warming planet. Who truly belongs there? In a wounded world filled with so much loss, is healing even possible?

An exquisite blend of memoir, history, criticism, and science, The Blue Hours illuminates hidden histories of life on "the Ice" and the gives voice to the natives--seals and whales, ice and rock--that make up the extraordinary body of Antarctica herself.

Whiskey: From Grain to Glass is an informational deep dive into the art and science behind producing the world's great bourbons, malts, and ryes. Written for distillers and enthusiasts alike, Strickland takes the reader on a grand tour of every aspect of whiskey production. This informative text begins with defining the world's great whiskey styles and then quickly takes the reader into the fields to learn all about corn, barley, rye, wheat and a few other cereal surprises. From there Strickland discusses the ins and outs of converting those grains into alcohol and then distilling that liquid into spirit. A trip into the world of barrels and blending ensues before the final elixir is delivered to the bottle ready for the drinker's glass. Best read and paired with a fine whiskey of your choosing, Strickland writes in an easy going conversational tone that distills the most complicated bits of science into something easily understood by even the newest comers to the fascinating world of whiskey making.

"This book will give you language for something you felt your whole life but couldn't quite articulate." --From the foreword by Mel Robbins, author of The Let Them Theory

You're not stuck because the problem is too hard.
You're stuck because something invisible is holding it in place.

Most persistent problems--at work, in organizations, and in our own lives--aren't unsolvable. We've tried harder. We've optimized. We've worried about it.

And nothing changes.

This is the kind of stuckness that shows up for people who lead, create, and build--for those who care deeply, think clearly, and still find themselves going in circles.

Some challenges are situations outside our control, best met with acceptance. But others are real problems, capable of being changed. The trouble is, we often can't tell the difference.

That's because we're entangled.

An entanglement is a hidden commitment that creates conflict beneath the surface: wanting progress without risk, change without loss, or forward motion without letting go of who we were--or who we promised to become. When we want two incompatible things at the same time, effort doesn't help. We stay stuck.

In The Knot, Seth Godin offers a clear, practical framework:

• How to tell the difference between problems you can solve and situations you need to accept
• How to see systems, understand what people actually want, and create conditions for change rather than simply hoping for it
• A practical guide to entanglements--time-based (sunk costs, premature optimization), social (phantom audiences, borrowed scorecards), and identity-based (who we were, who we promised to become)--each named, examined, and shown to be removable

The book leaves readers with a simple mantra for meaningful work:

Name the baggage.
Drop the baggage.
Ship the work.

If you've been pushing without progress, this book helps you see what's really in the way--and finally remove it.