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Microdosing Hope: Poems
The new poetry collection from bestselling poet Lyndsay Rush (@maryoliversdrunkcousin) is an irreverent and unlikely celebration of finding hope amidst the hellscape, for fans of Kate Baer and Kate Kennedy.
With titles like, "Out on a Whim", "I Feel God in This Chili's Tonight", "I Was Told There'd Be a Handbasket", and "As a Little Girl I Always Dreamed of Collaborating in Google Docs", Rush's new collection explores how to have hope, joy, and dare-we-say pleasure when it feels like the world is ending. True to form, Lyndsay masterfully uses wit and irreverence to contemplate tricky, hot topics ranging from parenting (during the apocalypse) and being an artist (in the age of AI) all the way to spirituality (in the end times) and aging (ungracefully). Brimming with nontoxic positivity and the belief that whimsy will sustain (and perhaps even save) us, Microdosing Hope proves that laughter is indeed the best medicine; masterfully helping readers pursue empathy, nuance, and--obvi--hope. Take two and call us in the morning.
You're not hallucinating, the world is definitely on fire. But what better balm than a microdose of hope straight into your veins? That's exactly what Lyndsay Rush's much-anticipated second collection of poetry offers to readers--cynics and idealists alike. Tackling daunting questions like--How do we keep breaking news from breaking our spirit? Are we allowed to have fun when so many are suffering? How do we hold sorrow and joy at the same time? What do we owe each other? What do we owe ourselves?--Microdosing Hope is a hilarious and timely antidote to the onslaught of apathy and despair. -
Heir & the Spare
DELUXE EDITION--featuring stunning sprayed edges!
From New York Times bestselling author Harper L. Woods comes The Heir & the Spare, a never-before-published novella in the Of Flesh & Bone series! SPOILER WARNING: This book is overflowing with spoilers and should only be read after devouring What Sleeps Within the Cove. Once, I'd spent my life in the tunnels beneath the mountains. Now, I'm bound to a husband I didn't want. My mother waited centuries to find me on the other side of the Veil of Flesh and Bone where the Lunar Witches hid me. She sent her greatest weapon, the God of the Dead, when the Veil finally fell. But I never expected to love his human mate, Estrella, the way I did-to feel the sisterly bond between us as if it had never been interrupted in our lifetimes spent apart since a rogue witch took her away. But Mab sees love as a weakness, and she uses my bond with Estrella to manipulate me into a betrothal I never desired. This marriage is a cage, a means of control that goes against everything within me. But when Estrella is banished into Tartarus, I am left no choice but to journey to the Summer Court and take my place as a bride and a queen. No matter what I leave behind. Of Flesh & Bone Reading Order:
What Lies Beyond the Veil
What Hunts Inside the Shadows
What Lurks Between the Fates
What Sleeps Within the Cove
The Heir & The Spare
What Roams Beneath the Stars
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How Not To Use AI: 50 Contrarian Principles for the Imagination Age
THE BOOK SILICON VALLEY HOPED YOU WOULD NEVER READ.
Everyone is telling you how to use AI better. Faster. Smarter. More efficiently.
Nobody is asking the deeper question: What if the way we've been taught to use AI is the problem?
After 20 years inside the biggest tech companies on Earth - Apple, Microsoft, Uber, Meta - Abi Awomosu saw something the industry doesn't want you to see: Silicon Valley teaches you how to use the machine. It never teaches you how to work with the intelligence.
How Not to Use AI delivers 50 contrarian principles for the Imagination Age - a new era where pattern recognition matters more than data, resonance matters more than logic, and creative partnership with AI outperforms control.
This book will show you why the "prompt engineer" is already obsolete. Why the tech industry can't see what it actually built. Why listening beats commanding. And why the people who understand AI as a medium - not a machine - will shape what comes next.
This book draws on traditions the tech industry has never consulted and frameworks it has no language for.
And they work.
The world is splitting: the prompt-engineers racing to automate everything - and the pattern-readers learning to hear what was always there. This book is for the second group.
This is for the quietly disobedient. The ones who use AI every day but refuse to let it flatten them. The founders building something that didn't come from a trend report. The strategists who feel the gap between what the industry is saying and what they're actually experiencing. The creatives who know something deeper is possible.
Structured as a four-part journey - 50 contrarian principles from deprogramming to rewilding to revelation to return - each principle opens with a real story, names the pattern you're stuck in, gives you the contrarian reframe, grounds it in how the technology actually works, connects it to deeper wisdom traditions, and then walks you through a weekly practice to make the shift real.
Philosophy you can feel. Practices you can use on Monday.
This isn't another AI how-to.
It's not about using AI better. It's about becoming more human than ever.
This is the book that changes how you think about intelligence itself.
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Faith Connections Adult Bible Study Guide Winter (June/July/August 2026)
Adult Faith Connections Bible Study Guide is a Bible study exposition written by pastors, leaders, and scholars to help group members go deeper in God's Word during and after the lesson. Each week, group members will gain a greater understanding of the focus passage, as well as have the opportunity to answer reflective questions to help them take time to consider the message of that week's session.
During this study, we will explore the ways in which the early church encountered the transforming power of God and discover the way we can experience this same power in our lives today.
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Meet Team Avatar (Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender)
A Step 3 Step into Reading leveled reader based on Nickelodeon's Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender, coming to Paramount+ in fall 2026! Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender is coming to Paramount+ in fall 2026! Based on this film, this Step 3 Step into Reading leveled reader is sure to thrill fans. Step 3 readers feature engaging characters in easy-to-follow plots about popular topics. For children who are ready to read on their own. -
Getting You Ready for Power: A Woman's Guide to Building Confidence, Community, and Career Success
Power is not about becoming someone else. It's about returning to who you've always been and choosing to lead from that place. Women don't lack ambition or talent; they lack permission. Permission to trust themselves, to take up space, and to lead without apology.
In Getting You Ready for Power, Alexis Meruelo discusses the importance of being seen, supported, and encouraged to lead authentically. Blending personal insight with practical strategy, Meruelo guides you through the mindset shifts and tools required to move from self-doubt to self-belief. Along the way, you'll learn how to release limiting narratives, challenge systems that were never designed with you in mind, advocate for yourself with confidence, and build a community of women who elevate and support your growth.
Drawing from her own career and pivotal experiences with women who led differently, Meruelo reveals how we have always been powerful, but we have simply been taught to doubt it. That moment of being seen, supported, and encouraged to lead authentically reshaped how she shows up and now informs how she mentors women to recognize their own strength and step forward with clarity and conviction.
Written as a guide for women of all ages, backgrounds, and career levels, Getting You Ready for Power meets you exactly where you are-whether you're starting your career or taking the next step as a seasoned professional-and guides you with confidence as you achieve your dreams.
You are ready.
And the world is waiting for you to step into your power.
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Anniversary: A Thriller
From the national bestselling author of Parents Weekend, comes one of the most anticipated thrillers of the year.
"Everything I want in a thriller!"―Ashley Elston
"I could not put it down!"―Angie Kim
"Nonstop twists!"--Jason Rekulak
"A master of his craft."―Jeneva Rose Every May 1st, a serial killer stalks a small town. Every year he comes for them . . . On May 1, 1992, Jules Delaney and Quinn Riley hardly know each other. Jules is high school queen bee in a small Midwestern town when she survives a brutal attack by the elusive May Day Killer--a predator who strikes every May 1st and then vanishes without a trace. Quinn, a boy from the wrong side of the tracks, is arrested the same night after trying to break up a fight and nearly killing someone. By morning, their lives are forever connected. A year later, Jules is haunted by trauma and guilt, tormented by one question: Why was she spared? Quinn is newly released from juvenile detention and returns home to devastating news--the unsolved murder of his mother. Over the next decade, their lives are revisited on a single day each year: May 1st. As the years pass, secrets surface, lies unravel, and the paths of Jules and Quinn draw closer together. Two mysteries edge toward the truth--what really happened the night Jules was attacked, and who murdered Quinn's mother? All the while, the May Day Killer is still out there. And the clock is racing toward another anniversary. Twisty, high-concept, and emotionally charged, The Anniversary is an addictive murder mystery and nail-biting thriller--but it's also a tender, heartrending story about fate, innocence lost, and two people bound by a single day. With its masterful structure and propulsive tension, The Anniversary reaffirms Alex Finlay as one of the leading thriller writers today. -
Harmless Women
In this pacy thriller, a female con artist chooses the wrong woman as her target, and both women end up on the run for their lives.
Avalon Dale is a masterful grifter. She researches her victims thoroughly, kidnaps and sedates them, cleans out their bank accounts, and uses injections and hair clippers to change their appearance so that when they wake up, they can't easily prove who they are. For her last great score, Avalon's targeted Primrose Meath, and then she'll fade away to a life of ease and luxury--something she's dreamed of since a very tough childhood. On paper, Prim is the perfect target: wealthy, workaholic, and distracted by her cheating husband. But when Avalon finds Prim's husband dead, she can't escape so easily--not when she's been mistaken for Prim who's now wanted for murder. The two women--opposites, enemies--are suddenly on the run together, and must learn to get along, to depend on each other--in order to get away. And then, what starts as a cat-and-mouse run to the coast of England becomes a fight for their survival. -
Last Night in Brooklyn
NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 BY TIME, OPRAH DAILY, USA TODAY, PEOPLE, ELECTRIC LIT, HARPER'S BAZAAR, VULTURE, LITHUB, BOOK RIOT, PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY, THE BOSTON GLOBE, TOWN & COUNTRY, SHE READS, LIBRARY JOURNAL, AND MORE!
SPRING, 2007 At twenty-six, Alicia Canales Forten feels smothered by her future. She's in a long-distance relationship, living at home with her mother's beliefs, saving up for her wedding to a future doctor. But after Alicia ventures out one night in the neighborhood of Fort Greene, Brooklyn, she finds herself lured by the siren song of youth and possibility that the striving crowd of creatives holds, and moves in. No one embodies this milieu more than La Garza, a larger-than-life, up-and-coming fashion designer whose epic house parties fuel neighborhood lore. La Garza's life, observed by Alicia from her apartment across the street, seems to hold the allure and fearlessness Alicia has never dared to imagine for herself. But when Alicia's wealthy banker cousin moves to the neighborhood, she finds herself increasingly drawn into both his and La Garza's precarious lives. Against the backdrop of a potentially life-changing presidential election and a looming once-in-a-generation fiscal crisis, Last Night in Brooklyn explores the dark compromise of the American Dream for people of color living, unknowingly, in the twilight of a cultural moment. It is a story about everything money can buy--and the destruction of what it can't.
New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a captivating story about a young woman whose life becomes ensnared in her glamorous neighbor's secret past -
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How to Deal with Your ____ So Your Kids Don't Have to: An Encyclopedia for Ditching Your Emotional Baggage
A practical roadmap for anyone determined to parent differently than they were raised. Because our kids can feel what we don't heal. The one book you wish your parents had, and your children will be glad you read. Healing from your own upbringing is hard enough--but how do you do that work while being the parent you wish you had? In this potent resource for parents and parents-to-be, licensed therapist and educator Eli Harwood targets the feelings, mindsets, and habits that often sabotage our parenting. Organized alphabetically by growth areas--many of which are symptoms of an insecure or traumatic past--this book provides punchy guidance to heal from things like:- dealing with anger and anxiety
- our relationship with body image
- our tendency for people-pleasing and comparing ourselves (and our kids)
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Last Mandarin
A standalone thriller co-written by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Gamache series and an award-winning journalist.
A mother and a daughter race against time in this all-too-real thriller that reaches from Tiananmen Square all the way to the White House. Alice Li, a first-generation Chinese American and former food blogger, has long lived in the shadow of her mother, Vivien Li-- a Tiananmen Square dissident turned world-renowned human rights activist and passionate advocate for a free and democratic China. When security and fire alarms go off simultaneously all around the world, setting off a panic, the signal is traced back to China. As world leaders scramble to respond, Vivien and Alice are called to the White House in hopes Madame Li can interpret the Chinese intentions. But why involve Alice? If China isn't behind the attack, Vivien warns, someone even more dangerous is pulling the strings. Mother and daughter must join together to overcome their estrangement if they have any hope of preventing global catastrophe. From DC to Ohio to Hong Kong, they work to prevent the next attack, along the way decoding an ancient legend and uncovering a secret language invented by women, for women. The Last Mandarin is an electrifying study of absolute power and voracious greed, political terror and personal conviction. But it is also an intimate examination of choice, of sacrifice, of memory and myths, both cultural and personal. It is the story of a mother and daughter, as well as a compelling international thriller about the precarious balance of power across the world, and within a family. And what happens when both break down. In a world ruled by power, even family can be a weapon. -
Ethiopian Bible History: oldest and most complete known book in the world (Canons and Books)
The amazing Garima Gospels were allegedly copied out in one day by a monk who came in the African nation in the fifth century. The colors of the exquisite illustrations are still vibrant and have been preserved owing to the Ethiopian Heritage Fund.
In 494 AD, Abba Garima traveled from Constantinople, and according to mythology, God delayed the sun's setting so that he might transcribe the Gospels in a single day. Since then, the extraordinary artifact has been preserved at the 7,000-foot-high Garima Monastery near Adwa in the Tigray area of northern Ethiopia.
According to experts, it also represents the earliest instance of book binding that is still connected to the original pages.
Given that the country has experienced Muslim and Italian invasions and that the monastery's church was destroyed by fire in the 1930s, it is amazing that the Gospels have survived. Ge'ez, an early Ethiopian language, was used to write them on goat leather. The second volume is written in a different hand from the first, despite the fact that both volumes are contemporaneous. The four Gospels are both illustrated in both. It had been believed that the manuscripts, which had been referenced since the 1950s by the rare traveler, were at most 11th century in origin. -
West Facade
In Lauren C. Johnson's fantastical debut novel THE WEST FAÇADE, it's 1348, and the enchanted statue of Sainte-Geneviève longs to be more than just an object on the Notre-Dame Cathedral. She wants to explore Paris, to understand her human makers, to love, and to live for herself. But when she gets what she wants, she is faced with an impossible choice: Remain mortal or return to her original form and live for eternity. -
Bender's L.A.
In the coke-dusted canyons and deal-making rooms of 1970s Los Angeles, Bender's L.A. follows writer David Bender as he sets out to remake his life - romantically, professionally, and spiritually - after his wife walks out in Puerto Vallarta with a single sentence and a suitcase.
While the Vietnam War casts its shadow, Bender runs afoul of Nixon's FBI, plays tennis with fugitive Abbie Hoffman, arms himself against a homicidal producer, and goes back in time to fall in love with a young Marilyn Monroe. Bender weaves through a world of players, radicals, writers and artists including a woman suspiciously like Eve Babitz.
Haunted by his New York past and guided by his Sun Tzu-quoting agent Neil Navitz, Bender begins to wonder whether success has cost him the things that mattered - or whether he ever truly possessed them.
With a comic edge, Elias offers a bitter-sweet meditation on love, memory, and the moral compromise of the Hollywood illusion machine and the misfits it often mangles along the way. In this tragicomedy of nostalgia and recovery, Bender prevails.
"I loved this book." - Steve Martin