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Maddy's Towers is about a young girl who has her trust broken at school by her best friend. Through this challenge, Maddy learns how slowly and carefully trust can be rebuilt. The towers serve as a metaphor for how small moments of caring for someone build up over time.

"As official narratives everywhere strain and crack, Peter and Paul--and Durbin--offer a desperately needed alternative way of seeing and being." --Benjamin Moser, author of Susan Sontag: Her Life and Work, winner of the Pulitzer Prize

"Andrew Durbin has made of these lives and these times a jam-packed poem in prose. It's like a trip with these guys, without pulling tight at the ending, just death." --Eileen Myles, author of a "Working Life"

The cinematic, never-before-told story of two intimately entangled artists who redefined queer art.

When Paul Thek met Peter Hujar in the winter of 1956 in Coral Gables, Florida, a slow-simmering connection began to burn. Thek, twenty-three and living in Miami, was handsome and itching to make it as a painter; in the twenty-two-year-old Hujar, a shy, sensual photographer, he'd found a kindred spirit. By 1960, they were dating and living in New York, beginning decades of sex, love, competition, and reconciliation--an entanglement that changed American art forever.

Surrounded by a robust creative scene populated by Susan Sontag, Andy Warhol, Fran Lebowitz, John Waters, and David Wojnarowicz, Thek and Hujar's profoundly influential careers, from the early 1960s through the late 1980s, differed as much as the men themselves. The unpredictable and often overlooked Thek crafted visceral installations and sculptures, while Hujar, celebrated and sociable, took penetrating portraits of his world, queer and otherwise. Yet even at their most estranged, and even after their deaths from AIDS, both men were united by a pursuit of liberation--from artistic and sexual limits, from anything short of changing the world.

Andrew Durbin's The Wonderful World That Almost Was unravels, for the first time, the intertwined stories and work of two boundary-burning, paradigm-tilting, never-more-relevant American artists. Weaving together deft art criticism with moving portraits of both men's inner lives, and assembled with exhaustive research, Durbin's book is an ode to a lost but still-living world--and two men who defined it.

A look at the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the plant specimens the great explorers gathered on their way--and of their amazing afterlife.

Elizabeth Adelman's Chasing the Missing Monkeyflower is the two hundred-year saga of finding, losing, and finding the wild plants collected on America's first exploration west, the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Thomas Jefferson handpicked Meriwether Lewis to lead the expedition, gather notable specimens along the way, and then write the journals, with one volume to include science-worthy descriptions and classifications of the plants that Lewis collected and pressed to preserve. Not a botanist, Lewis needed help to write this part of the journals.

Ambition, deceit, theft, wealth, debt, alcoholism, loss, suicide, serendipity, and stubborn persistence cross the plants' paths in Philadelphia, New York, and London. This is the first work detailing the places, practices, and times of a cavalcade of people who touched the plants. A fascinating chronicle of an unexplored byway of the great American story.

Named a Novel Everyone Will Be Talking About in 2026 by the New York Times - One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2026

From the "most talented writer of his generation" (The New York Times), a lightning flash of a novel that is at once a gripping emotional drama and a brilliant examination of the devices, digital and literary, we use to store--or to erase--our memories.

The narrator of Ben Lerner's new novel has traveled to Providence, Rhode Island, where he is to conduct what will be the final published interview with Thomas, his ninety-year-old mentor and the father of his college friend, Max. Thomas is a giant in the arts who seems to hail "from the future and the past simultaneously" and who "reenchants the air" when he speaks. But the narrator drops his smartphone in the hotel sink. He arrives at Thomas's house with no recording device, a fact he is mysteriously unable to confess.
What unfolds from this dreamlike circumstance is both the unforgettable story of the triangle formed by Thomas, Max, and the narrator, and a brilliant meditation on those technologies that enrich or impoverish our connection to one another, that store or obliterate memory. Haunted by Kafka (there are echoes of "The Judgement" and "A Hunger Artist"), but utterly contemporary, Lerner combines trenchant insight with lyric mystery. Ultimately, Transcription demonstrates what only a work of fiction can record.

The Art of Mammals ABC's from A to Z is truly a unique and beautiful ABC book, written and illustrated by Fred Davis. Packed with bright and bold pictures of some your favorite animals, and some you may learn about for the first time. Playful guinea pigs, sleepy koalas, curious quokka, and hungry raccoons make this an ABC book the whole family will enjoy!

What makes The Art of Mammals even more special is that the author/illustrator, Fred Davis, studied drawing throughout his life and earned his Bachelor's degree in Illustration from the University of Arts in Philadelphia. His life took an unexpected turn in 2017 when he suffered a stroke. Fred was right handed and had to train his mind to use the left side of his body for everyday tasks and movements. All the art you see in this ABC book, was designed, illustrated, and colored by Fred with the use of his left hand.

Autumn in Stone's Throw, Michigan, is filled to the brim with hot apple cider, chunky pumpkins, and football rivalries. The entire town is gearing up for Homecoming festivities against rival Hemlock Pond, bringing together old friends and new, to the Lake Michigan town.

With the support of her loyal (and cheeky) dog, Martin Short, State Park Ranger Maudy Lorso is determined to keep her head above water. She's running for local office, tending to a burgeoning relationship, and scrounging to keep the park's doors open. Already trying to mend a rocky relationship with her best friend Eli, things take a darker turn when his childhood friend, State Senator Paige Ramos, is found dead on his front porch on Halloween night. As secrets surface and old bonds fray, Maudy's not sure who she can trust.

Stone's Throw may seem like a postcard-perfect coastal town, but someone is hiding a much larger plan, and they'll do whatever it takes to keep it buried.

A pint-sized romantic and his long-legged crush are clearly smitten with each other, but her signals keep going over his head. From festival fun to after-school shenanigans, this three-volume rom-com is packed with peak pining vibes and height-gap hijinks. A Kodansha Print Club series.

SIZZLING SUMMER BREAK

Chitose's love life is shaken up when his chivalry earns him another girl's affection, but he still has the hots for his neighbor. Problem is, Tomo's been sending mixed signals lately...until she suddenly invites him over when nobody's home! And if he can keep his cool, he might just get to see his crush in a swimsuit before summer's over.

A female-focused Cells at Work! spin-off that turns women's health into an action-packed, edutainment adventure. Follow immune cells and their allies as they tackle periods, beauty routines, pregnancy, aging, and loss inside one woman's body. A Kodansha Print Club series.

BEAUTY AND BIOLOGY

Beauty is only skin-deep...unless you're a tiny cell--then you've got skin in the game. From dieting, to hair removal, to UV damage from tanning, the cells that make up this woman's body are hard at work keeping their host in tip-top shape while she's busy feeling pretty. And thanks to all they do, when the ups and downs of her love life reach a climax, her body is ready to receive a special cell from her partner and begin the adventure of a lifetime (quite literally).

A wake-up call sends a 30-year-old couch potato on a zany husband-hunting mission! This spin-off series of the Eisner Award-winning Tokyo Tarareba Girls is a charming dramedy with a younger, messier, scarily relatable heroine. A Kodansha Print Club series.

LOW-TIER LOSER

Thanks to her parents dishing out husband-hunting dough, Reina dives head-first into the dating pool with back-to-back dates with the Yoshios--each date more disastrous than the last. So when she meets a scruffy single stud who checks all her boxes, Reina does something she hasn't done in a very long time--chases down a guy to shoot her shot. And while she's just happy to be back in the game, Reina and Mr. Right might just become Mr. and Mrs. when he floats the idea of getting married on a whim.

The idea for this book came to me while receiving chemotherapy treatments. My implanted Medi-Port made a very scary situation far less frightening and far less painful. To me, my port looked like a little mouse, so I imagined it as a friend who was there to help me whenever I needed it.

May this book bring a smile to all who read it, and to all who need it.

I have two goals this season:

1. Win the Cup with the Seattle Serpents.

2. Get my wife back.

I've always been the kind of guy who sticks to my vows. So when my wife asked for space, I let her walk away, hoping what we had built would be strong enough to withstand it.

When she shows up three years later in Seattle, smack dab in the middle of the best season the franchise has ever had, I'm torn between trying to figure out my marriage and not letting my teammates down.

I've never been one to shy away from a fight, and I refuse to start now. This time, though, it's more than just a game on the line-it's my marriage, and I refuse to call it quits.

There are moments in our lives where a door of awareness opens, if only for a brief second. These are the moments that are simply impossible to express, but moments that have captured us for all time.

Join a New England forester on a fifty-year quest for something larger than all of us. Here are a series of essays, stories and poems emerging from the natural world, but always connected to a life that has had its common share of illumination and darkness, hope and despair, love and loss, ambition and failure, resistance and acceptance, anger and peace. Marking timber for harvest becomes a meditation on the unique connection between responsibility to the natural world and awareness of self and others. A shadow in the woods, a voice on the wind opens up the mystery inherent in all the wisdom traditions. The impact of a sudden death on a logging crew lingers for decades, demanding a resolution between hubris and fate. The crushing retreat of the United States from climate science and advocacy manifests in a longing for the precise language of another time when we were closer to the natural cycles of life.

"A great scholar of the American past, David O. Stewart has brilliantly mined what has come before to guide us in our own, all-too-urgent American present. An important and timely volume." Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The American Struggle

What did America's founders say about democracy-and can we remain true to their vision for America?

Two hundred fifty years ago, passionate men attempted to create something the world had never seen before: a nation built not on kings or armies, but on ideas where the people ruled.

In The Democracy We Must Keep, historian David O. Stewart takes readers inside the nine key documents that shaped the formation of the United States-from Patrick Henry's thunderous cry for liberty to the carefully crafted design of a government chosen by the people, with limits on all officials holding power under the Constitution.

Through the words of seven visionary founders-Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, Gouverneur Morris, and others-Stewart shows how a fragile experiment in self-government took shape.

These men were not saints. They argued passionately. They worried that the new nation might fall apart. Yet together, they forged the principles that must still define American democracy.

As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, The Democracy We Must Keep urges readers to rediscover core ideas that built the nation-and to consider what it will take to protect them.

Accessible, engaging, and timely, this book is for anyone who wants to understand how American democracy started, and why it still matters.

"The American experiment was built through action based upon the ideas preserved in our founding documents. In this compelling call to engage with our past to secure our future, David Stewart shows that democracy is not a spectator sport, but a responsibility each generation must uphold." Colleen Shogan, 11th Archivist of the United States, CEO of In Pursuit

"In The Democracy We Must Keep, noted historian David O. Stewart provides an inspiring antidote to America's current dangers of one-man rule and unprincipled government. Alarmed citizens can do no better than read Stewart's compact account of how America's flame of liberty was kindled, and how we must restore it." James McGrath Morris is a New York Times best-selling biographer and author of Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power

"The cause of America is...the cause of all mankind," the pamphleteer Tom Paine wrote in 1776. Grappling with very human sins and flaws, Americans have led the cause of freedom from Valley Forge to Omaha Beach, and promoted human rights from Seneca Falls to Selma. But now a deviant strain of oppression stalks America: What better moment for David O. Stewart, jurist and historian, to bring us The Democracy We Must Keep, a crisp and eloquent reminder of our better selves. "Only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger," John F. Kennedy said. "I do not shrink from this responsibility, I welcome it." So does Stewart, and in his books we find the energy, the faith and the devotion that Kennedy called for. The trumpet summons us again and Stewart, to our good fortune, is a virtuoso. John A. Farrell, Author of Richard Nixon: The Life, Pulitzer Prize finalist