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As groundbreaking as Code Girls and Hidden Figures, this is the shocking true story of two segregated codebreaking units racing to unlock Stalin's atomic secrets in the face of a rapidly expanding Soviet nuclear threat at the dawn of the Cold War.

Facing the global threat of a rising Communist world power in the aftermath of World War II, the U.S. employed hundreds of Black Americans to speed read Russian communications and gather essential information on the US's most dangerous nuclear rival.

The result was the creation of a segregated civilian codebreaking unit known as the Traffic Processing Division--The Plantation. Despite wage discrimination, grueling hours, strict quotas, and harsh conditions, the Plantation's 100 college-educated Black women made invaluable breakthroughs in United States' Soviet intelligence even as the Red Scare and the backlash against civil rights eroded their democratic freedoms at home. Their underappreciated top-secret work led directly to victory over the USSR and the end of the Cold War thirty years later.

In this thrilling history, Sarah Valentine tells their remarkable story in full for the first time. Decoding the Devil pays long overdue tribute to these little-known Black cryptologists' critical contributions to national security during the civil rights era, and offers a fresh perspective on the Cold War and American heroes of color.

From award-winning journalist Nicole Carr comes a landmark narrative revealing the untold history of Black medical professionals who have long fought to heal their communities--while confronting a system built to exclude them.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Black Americans died at nearly twice the rate of their white counterparts--a disparity rooted not only in access to care but in a long history of exclusion, exploitation, and systemic racism. How did we get here, and why, despite generations of Black medical excellence, do these inequities persist? In The Price of Exclusion, journalist Nicole Carr uncovers that history and its urgent consequences, exposing the hidden toll of America's refusal to value Black doctors and their patients.

At the center is the extraordinary life of Carr's great-grandfather, Dr. Lawrence St. Clair Ferguson, a Jamaican-born physician who served in World War I and attended medical school during the Spanish Flu pandemic. His journey from colonial Jamaica to a racially divided America provides both an intimate family portrait and a sweeping history of how Black physicians persevered despite segregation, erasure, and relentless barriers to practice.

Through vivid storytelling and meticulous research, Carr resurrects the lives of pioneers who transformed medicine against impossible odds. From America's first four-year medical school located at a historically Black college in North Carolina to the generations of Black physicians whose contributions were pushed aside by institutions of power, Carr shows how these figures were not only doctors but also advocates and innovators whose work reshaped public health and opened doors for those who followed.

Carr also reveals the systemic campaigns that actively disempowered Black doctors, from the American Medical Association's exclusionary policies to the devastating closures of Black medical schools after the Flexner Report. That legacy fuels today's shortage of Black medical professionals and the lingering distrust in medicine that continues to cost lives.

Bold, moving, and essential, The Price of Exclusion is both a necessary history and a testament to the resilience of Black medical pioneers past and present. At a moment when diversity, equity, and inclusion in medicine are under political attack, Carr forces us to reckon with the past while imagining a future where healthcare truly values every single life.

Noted architect Thomas Kligerman celebrates the magic of summer, exploring the seaside setting and design of secluded cottages facing the Atlantic along the Rhode Island coast

Summer by the Sea is the first book to focus on the seaside cottages of Rhode Island, the birthplace of the shingle style, lauded as the 'architecture of the American summer'. This in-depth tour of seaside communities begins with Watch Hill and moves along the coast, weaving together the history of the state, the evolution of the shingle style, and descriptions of the geology and wildlife that create a unique sense of place.

Each chapter explores a different town - Watch Hill, Weekapaug, Haversham, Block Island, Saunderstown, Jamestown, Middletown, Little Compton - capturing landscape and seascape and studying both historic and contemporary shingle style designs.

Featured are works by 19th century masters Calvert Vaux and Charles L. Bevins, new houses by Jens Risom, Gil Schafer, and Peter Bohlin, and vernacular cottages by unknown builders that have descended through generations of the same family. The most recent is Tom Kligerman's own house in Weekapaug, a gabled, shingled form that he describes as 'an architectural madeleine for my family, ' evoking the sounds and scents of his own boyhood summers by the sea.

Lush photographs specially taken for the book by Read McKendree capture the spirit of the place - interiors filled with personal histories, generous, inviting porches, and views out over meadows and ponds to the Atlantic beyond. Tom Kligerman's own photographs of beaches, harbours, and houses- views taken while biking along narrow roads and sandy paths - complete the portrait of this special summer world.

Instant USA TODAY bestseller

The story of an Italian immigrant family in the Wild West whose crazy, brave, and magical women overcame impossible odds to become bootleggers, brides--and Mafia bosses.

This based-on-real-events novel tells the story of the family that possibly inspired The Godfather--except this story doesn't begin with a small robbery in New York. Instead, The Descendant begins with a big, blooming love in the tiny town of Lucca Sicula, Sicily. Told through the lives of the strong Italian women who fought against impossible odds, this historically inspired narrative introduces a whole cast of fascinating characters.

Mariano Barbera was a strong, powerfully built man who saw tiny fourteen-year-old Maria Ragusa at her family's store and was struck dumb. He had to have her, and she wanted him just as badly. Their life together leads the couple and their children from earthquake-ravaged Sicily to bondage in the mines of Colorado, to cattle ranching in Pueblo, to Mafia life on the mean streets of Red Hook, Brooklyn.

This sweeping family saga centers around the Barberas' ten children from their three cowboy gangster sons, Peter, Joe, and Austin to their seven wildly different cowgirl daughters. First there's little Flo--born on the night of the wolves and whose own alpha wolf never left her side--as she navigates life alongside her best pal and younger sister, Clara. Then there's Flo's many older sisters: Callie, who loved and lost; Angie, who loved and left; gorgeous Laura, who loved the wrong man; grouchy but brilliant Helen, who loved many times; and tough-as-nails wrangler Michelina, who loved a woman more than the husband she was forced to marry.

The Descendant is not just the story of how the mountain Mafia began in the United States. This is the story of a family of scrappy, tough, smart folks who refused to let all the power in the world keep them down.

Timed to the hundredth birthday of Marilyn Monroe, and with the full cooperation of the Monroe estate, comes an investigation into the literary life of the Hollywood icon and actress, from the author of Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz and Dorothy Parker in Hollywood.

Far from the spotlights of the Hollywood film sets and the flashbulbs of the press, Marilyn Monroe was a great reader and lover of books. Her association with writers did not stop at reading their words on the page. She was, of course, briefly married to one of America's best-known playwrights, Arthur Miller, and met a number of other writers who moved in his literary world. But she also met authors independently of Miller, many of whom were fans of her films and keen to meet her.

Through her deep research, Gail Crowther delves into Marilyn's personal book collection and recounts some of these meetings, like when she shared an apartment with Shelley Winters in West Hollywood, where they entertained Dylan Thomas and Christopher Isherwood for drinks (probably several drinks), after which Monroe arranged for Thomas to meet his childhood hero, Charlie Chaplin. Or when Life magazine arranged for Monroe to be interviewed by Dame Edith Sitwell at the Sunset Tower Hotel, and Sitwell was both charmed and blown away by Monroe's intelligence.

Marilyn And Her Books: The Literary Life of Marilyn Monroe charts the intellectual life of a screen legend, revealing how Monroe, who left high school before graduation, embarked on an impressive and progressive program of self-education, hungry for knowledge and devouring books as an active and engaged reader. Her personal library reflects this inquiring mind.

In 2026, for her centenary, this book showcases Marilyn Monroe the reader. Because, at the end of her life, it was not her jewels or her furs, shoes, or dresses that she cared about. It was her books.

A debut novel for fans of Jane Austen, Elin Hilderbrand, and Gilmore Girls, Worse Than Strangers is a beachy retelling of Austen's Persuasion set against the backdrop of a cottage on Nantucket about finding romance, second chances, and a new path in life.

Rose and Lily are best friends first, mother-daughter second, which is good because right now, Lily could really use a friend. Recently fired from her NYC magazine job and heartbroken, Lily has fled to the family cottage in Siasconset. She is shocked when she stumbles across her first love at the grocery store holding hands with his new fiancé--a fiancé he never mentioned on their many, many late-night phone calls.

Rose has secrets, too. A therapist about to start her own private practice, Rose's world is rocked by the handsome renter staying in their guest cottage, Thomas Wentworth: the one person she thought she would never see again and the man who has always (unfortunately) held her heart.

A modern retelling of Jane Austen's Persuasion set against a backdrop of blue and purple hydrangeas, swollen brick sidewalks, tall sea grass, and uniform, shingled houses, Lily and Rose Gardner's summer journey of second chances, healing, and hope begs the question: Can you repeat the past, and is it ever too late to try again?

"A big, bustling novel about love, friendship, money, ambition and the 21st century, packed with humor and intelligent observations . . . I finished it tear-stained."--Sunday Times (UK)

Longlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year--the first work of fiction to grace the list in fifteen years--a sweeping social novel about an unlikely friendship between two men and a plan that could change the world, unfolding over the first two decades of the 21st century

James and Roland's paths through life--one drawn in straight lines, the other looping and uncertain--began to cross...

James Drayton has always found things too easy. Ambitious, brilliant, disciplined--he graduates with a top first from Oxford and is on track to become the youngest ever partner at leading management consultancy McKinsey. His former classmate Roland Mackenzie, on the other hand, is an impulsive dreamer: charming and restless, his boundless enthusiasm matched only by his knack for self-sabotage.

When Roland takes a job at the same firm as James, the two men only vaguely remember one another. But as the financial crisis starts to unfold, a chance encounter sparks an idea, and an unlikely partnership begins to take shape. Sent to Scotland to shutter offices and lay off hundreds of workers, James and Roland begin to wonder: What if they were made for more than this? What if they could build something grand and lasting--something that might even change the world?

By turns intimate and panoramic, Drayton and Mackenzie is a deeply intelligent novel about ambition, friendship, and the forces shaping the twenty-first century--the story of two men caught in, and determined to master, the tides of history.

Discover how individuals and institutions are redefining the second half of life through science, reinvention, and purpose, proving that living a centenarian life is no longer a distant dream--it's today's reality with the new longevity movement.

As more people live into their eighties, nineties, and even hundreds, traditional models of aging no longer apply--and a bold new road map is emerging. Longevity Nation takes us to the front lines of the new longevity movement, giving us the tools and insights we need to radically reshape the second half of life in happier, healthier ways.

With insights from the Stanford Center on Longevity and its groundbreaking New Map of Life, L'Oréal's "All Generations" workforce strategy, and Singapore's incentives for hiring over-fifty-five workers, this book integrates global cutting-edge research across functional health, financial security, and lifelong learning--revealing what's happening now and what's coming next.

From business and wealth to fitness and relationships, this practical guide spotlights innovators, experts, and everyday individuals who are redefining what it means to thrive later in life. Aimed at readers forty and up, Longevity Nation is an inspiring manifesto for a generation ready to reimagine aging--and live with more purpose, vitality, wellness, and vision than ever before.

From bestselling author, paranormal investigator, and Kindred Spirits co-host Amy Bruni, Cuisine to Kill For intertwines the macabre with the culinary to uncover some of history's most gruesome true crime stories and the ghosts they left behind. Whether set in a haunted castle, a mysterious hotel, an abandoned prison, or a popular pub, these paranormal tales span the entire globe--and their accompanying culinary treats are equally wide-ranging.

Each of the 60 locations includes:

• Gruesome true crime tales paired with spine-tingling paranormal encounters.
• 60 recipes inspired by history, local flavors, or even eerie menu items served at these haunted spots.
• Authentic vintage photographs from each haunted site, bringing these violent histories to life.
• Mysteriously mouthwatering food photography, styled to inspire a killer kitchen experience.

Sink your teeth into tempting dishes and devilish drinks, including:

• Sunday Roast with Gravy from Ten Bells Pub in England (Jack the Ripper, anyone?).
• Meat Stew with Polenta and Egg from Romania's foreboding Bran Castle.
• The Elderflower Rose Gin Trifle from Canada's stunning Empress Hotel.
• Louis XV's Drinking Chocolate from the Palace of Versailles.
• The Reindeer Fart from Alaska's spirited Red Onion Saloon.
• Shrimp Wiggle from the Pennhurst Asylum in Pennsylvania (only if you dare).

Whether you're drawn to the paranormal, obsessed with true crime, or simply hungry for a historic culinary escape, this cookbook is for:

• true crime aficionados who love a good (and gory) backstory.
• history buffs and travel enthusiasts fascinated by the darker side of iconic locations.
• hosts and entertainers craving unique ways to captivate guests.
• foodies with guts to try centuries-old--and disturbingly "authentic"--recipes.

Amy Bruni effortlessly merges her love of the mysterious with jaw-droppingly delicious recipes, offering a cookbook that's as deathly as it is delectable. Cuisine To Kill For isn't just a collection of recipes; it's a passport to haunted history with every chilling page. If you've got an appetite for eerie tales, blood-curdling history, and global flavors, this haunted cookbook is your ultimate culinary companion.

When maps come up short and the path ahead is uncertain, how do we find our way? Visionary climate leader Katharine K. Wilkinson offers a compassionate and empowering guide to navigating from ache to action, doubt to possibility.

"There's an enormous amount of learning from many years of climate work condensed into this invaluable book--wisdom about what to do, how to do it, and in what spirit. It will be so much help to so many!" --Bill McKibben, author of Here Comes the Sun

Through transformational programs and books, including the national bestseller All We Can Save, Wilkinson has inspired hundreds of thousands of climate journeys. In Climate Wayfinding, she shares a proven process for looking inward with care, outward with curiosity, and forward with courage. Ultimately, readers chart a course toward playing their unique part in our collective healing.

With her singular blend of warmth and rigor, Wilkinson lights the way through stirring personal essays, interwoven with the wisdom of other climate leaders and the beauty of poetry, art, and song. A book to sit with and savor, Climate Wayfinding also invites engagement with journaling prompts, practical exercises, and guides for conversation.

Whether steeped in climate or newly curious, readers will discover something grounding and generative in these pages. The terrain ahead is calling--and we have everything we need to find our way.

QUANTUM PROGRESSION(TM) The Quantum Leap EditionThe Art and Science of Career Advancement in the Age of AI

Fully Updated and Expanded for 2026 Including 4 New Chapters.

The #1 guide to thriving in the AI revolution-now completely reimagined for the quantum era.

When Valerie Capers Workman released the first edition of Quantum Progression in 2023, professionals worldwide discovered a revolutionary approach to career advancement. Now, as AI transforms every industry at warp speed, The Quantum Leap Edition arrives with urgent new insights and field-tested strategies that will define careers for the next decade. Drawing from her experience scaling Tesla from 50,000 to 100,000 employees and advising Fortune 500(R) CEOs on their Early Talent strategies, Capers Workman delivers the definitive playbook for professionals ready to make quantum leaps, not incremental steps, in their careers. This isn't about surviving AI disruption-it's about thriving in the workplaces of tomorrow.

Inside The Quantum Leap Edition, you'll discover:

• • 17 Career Superpowers updated for 2026, from conquering AI anxiety to building your personal board of directors.
  • The THRIVE Framework (NEW): Prompt Engineering, Strategic Thinking at Scale, and Data Fluency-the three capabilities that separate AI users from AI leaders.
  • Real-World Playbooks: How professionals are using AI to 10x their impact, negotiate seven-figure packages, and create entirely new career categories.
  • The Quantum Progression Method: Make strategic career leaps while others climb outdated ladders.
  • Future-Proof Strategies: Turn every disruption into opportunity with multi-dimensional thinking.

Whether you're an executive navigating AI transformation, a mid-career professional feeling stuck, or an emerging leader wanting to accelerate your rise, this book transforms career anxiety into quantum advantage.

"AI will not replace you, it will replace the way your job gets done. This is not a competition between you and the person next to you. The competition is between you and your resistance to change." -Valerie Capers Workman

When Cape Cod tearoom owner Lily Roberts finds a group conducting a séance in her grandmother's Victorian B&B, she has no idea the trouble that's about to be conjured up . . .

When Lily stumbles across five middle-aged women gathered in a dark corner of the tearoom for a "book club," she firmly reminds them that the inn's no-smoking policy also applies to their oddly ritualistic candles. As they head outside, Lily overhears them chalking their bad luck up to the absence of their leader, Katya. Whatever they're doing, it certainly isn't reading--and their cover is starting to sound like weak tea . . .
While they enjoy Lily's homemade banana bread the next morning, they make their intentions clear--grilling Lily about any past paranormal activity in the cliffside mansion. Their attempts to contact spirits have been falling flat, it seems, and the mysterious Katya is catching the heat. Levelheaded Lily thinks the real reason is that there's no such thing as ghosts.

But Lily's pal Bernie has found another explanation: the half-baked spirit-seekers have the wrong house. The haunted reputation belongs to the place next door--where Lily's gardener boyfriend is currently staying. But before they can inform the luckless ladies, the missing medium shows up--dead on the rocks at the bottom of the cliff. Now, Lily has two jobs: serving afternoon tea, and solving a murder before someone else gets sent to the great beyond . . .

Unlock the mindset that transforms curiosity into your greatest advantage.

In Curiosity Redefines the Limits, business leader and innovator Rod Adkins delivers a compelling roadmap for turning life's questions into fuel for growth, leadership, and impact. From his early days as a precocious child in Miami to the executive ranks of IBM and influential roles on global boards, Rod's journey proves that curiosity isn't just a trait--it's a strategy.

This insightful book combines personal storytelling with actionable insights to help readers harness curiosity in every chapter of life. Whether you're facing career decisions, navigating adversity, or redefining what success means to you, Curiosity Redefines the Limits will inspire you to ask better questions, stay open to learning, and lead with purpose.

Inside, you'll learn:

• How curiosity sharpens leadership and decision-making
• The role of curiosity in overcoming personal and professional setbacks
• Strategies to embrace continuous learning and bold thinking
• Lessons from the boardroom, the workplace, the dojo, and everyday life

Perfect for professionals, students, emerging leaders, and lifelong learners, this book challenges you to think differently--and shows you how a curiosity advantage can take you further than you ever imagined.

The memoir by co-founding member of Soundgarden and lead guitarist Kim Thayil about one of the 1990s' signature rock bands

From Soundgarden's humble beginnings manifesting grunge in Seattle's beer-soaked punk clubs to their revered status today as rock icons, the band's journey has been nothing short of extraordinary. In A Screaming Life, founding member and guitar god Kim Thayil goes backstage to introduce the band that fearlessly pushed the boundaries of rock, invented a new genre, and amassed fervent fans from every corner of the world.

Thayil shares the story of how he and his Soundgarden bandmates--Hiro Yamamoto, Ben Shepherd, Matt Cameron, and Chris Cornell--faced the triumphs and challenges on the road to their historic and influential rise. His storytelling channels the essence of Soundgarden's era-defining sound--one that's supercharged with raw creativity and unapologetic lyrics--and explores the ways that Soundgarden was shaped by the diverse backgrounds of its creators: Thayil's Indian heritage and founding bassist Hiro Yamamoto's Japanese background added unique dimensions to the band's identity, influencing not only their music but also their experiences in the industry.

For Soundgarden fans and '90s alternative rock enthusiasts, A Screaming Life not only gives behind-the-scenes access to one of the most revered bands, but it also demonstrates the power music and its creators have to transform culture.