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A must-read guide for meal preppers and busy home cooks who want to make healthy, one-dish meals

Bowls For Dummies, walks you through the steps you need to follow to create vibrant, delicious, and healthy one-bowl meals that are perfect for busy weeknights, filling out a meal prep schedule, or impressing your lunch and dinner guests. Wendy Jo Peterson, an expert culinary dietitian, draws on over 25 years' experience in cooking, recipe writing, and speaking, offering detailed guides to building hearty grain bowls, protein-packed breakfasts, and even globally inspired dinners.

Bowls For Dummies includes recipes from all around the world. You'll learn how to mix and match the ingredients in your kitchen to design interesting, tasty meals that satisfy the fussiest eaters in your home. You'll also discover how to stock your fridge and pantry, so you always have access to what you need to prepare a wholesome bowl.

Inside the book:

• Hands-on tips and tricks for busy cooks and home chefs who want to create memorable meals on a budget
• A wide range of bowls suited for every meal of the day and for every palate
• Easy strategies to reduce food waste (and your grocery bill) without depriving yourself and your family of fun, healthy meals
• Recipes offer time saving tips such as utilizing an air fryer or instant pot

Perfect for beginner home cooks ready to make easy, nutritious, and customizable meals, Bowls For Dummies is also a can't-miss book for busy professionals, students, and anyone else interested in cooking fast, one-dish bowls that don't skimp on flavor or health.

"For aspiring writers, Harlan's advice, stories, and anecdotes are wise, proven, and valuable. For published authors, his book evokes memories of what it was like back then. It's a romp, a riot, and a joy to read."
--​John Grisham

#1 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben offers a look behind the curtain at his own writing process in an inspiring, candid memoir filled with indispensable insights and techniques.

With 100 million books in print world-wide and over twenty blockbuster television and film adaptations of his work, Harlan Coben has much to teach us about the creative process. Part deeply personal memoir, part masterclass in storytelling, Plot Twist is a refreshingly honest look at the life of a writer whose stories have thrilled us for decades.

Plumbing memories from his suburban childhood and his early years trying to break into publishing, Coben tells his own story for the first time, revealing the real-world inspirations for some of his most beloved characters as well as the innovative plots that drive his propulsive novels. Filled with useful tips and techniques on the creative process, Coben does away with the traditional "categories" of writing--characters, plot, setting, etc--and looks at the process holistically. Plot Twist is a masterclass on the act of being a writer, and everything that comes with it: the self-doubt, the hubris, the contradictions, the passion and dedication. At the end of the day, his calculus is a simple one: "If it helps me produce pages, good. If it doesn't, bad." This book will help every aspiring writer produce pages.

Honest, funny, insightful, and at times deeply moving, this is both a captivating memoir and an essential guide for anyone looking to master the art of storytelling from one of our most beloved authors.

It's time to look at failure in a new light.

Have you experienced failure at work? Serious setbacks can sting but can also be the best thing that ever happened to you if you turn them into stepping stones that help you reach new heights. Aim High and Bounce Back looks at why failure can be particularly devastating for women, sparking disappointment and embarrassment, and offers a three-step framework to turn career setbacks into a master class in what it takes to succeed. Authors Fiona Macaulay, an award-winning entrepreneur and adjunct faculty at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, and Deborah Grayson Riegel, an executive coach and leading business school instructor, tap into their vast, global network of resilient and high-profile professional women and share empowering examples of women overcoming failure and finding new paths to success using tools, strategies, and mindset shifts to embrace the powerful lessons that failure can bring. Aim High and Bounce Back is an essential guide for any leader who wants to raise her game professionally.

Savasana, the "final pose" of yoga, is often mistaken for a simple rest at the end of practice. In truth, it is far more: a profound encounter with stillness, surrender, and the mystery of death itself.

Blending yoga philosophy, end-of-life wisdom, and practical tools to deepen the pose, Savasana: Between Breath and Death invites readers to see this pose not as an afterthought, but as a doorway into the deepest teachings of yoga. With clarity, compassion, and a touch of humor, longtime yoga teachers Leslie Howard and Richard Rosen explore savasana as both an everyday practice and a rehearsal for the ultimate letting go.

Through step-by-step instructions, reflections, and stories drawn from the yoga mat and teaching experience, this book offers practical guidance for skillfully practicing and teaching savasana. Readers learn how thoughtful setup, pacing, and language can transform this pose from a passive rest into a powerful and meaningful practice.

Whether you are a seasoned practitioner, a teacher, or simply a curious seeker, this book will guide you into the quiet heart of yoga, where breath dissolves, time softens, and the infinite is revealed. To surrender well is to live well. To practice dying is to awaken to life.

Good planning turns hard work into steady progress--and makes growing more rewarding

Productive gardens don't happen by accident. The Well-Planned Garden: A Grower's Guide shows how thoughtful organization, timing, and goal-setting can dramatically reduce effort while increasing yields--whether you're managing a home garden or a diversified market farm.

Based on The Market Gardener Method, this practical, highly illustrated guide brings clarity to the many moving parts of food production. From space planning and crop rotation to season-long scheduling, it helps growers align daily tasks with long-term goals, working in harmony with natural cycles rather than reacting to problems as they arise.

What this Book Offers

• A clear framework for organizing gardens and small farms for efficiency


• Practical guidance on crop planning, spacing, and rotation


• Tools for aligning production with climate, seasons, and available labor


• A perpetual garden calendar with monthly priorities and task summaries


• Strategies for balancing productivity, profitability, and quality of life

Rather than overwhelming growers with rigid schedules, this guide encourages flexible planning that adapts to changing conditions while keeping the big picture in view.

Who this Book is For

• Gardeners who want better results with less stress


• Market growers managing multiple crops and timelines


• Growers transitioning from reactive to intentional systems


• Readers seeking structure without rigidity


• Anyone aiming to grow more food with greater confidence

Jean-Martin Fortier has spent decades refining systems that help small-scale growers succeed economically while maintaining ecological integrity. His planning approach reflects real-world experience managing complex gardens efficiently.

The Well-Planned Garden is part of the Grower's Guides from the Market Gardener series--practical manuals designed to support growers with tools that build resilience, clarity, and long-term success.

If you want your garden to work for you, not against you, this guide provides a clear path forward.

An invitation to look closer. Hidden Places Around Rochester, New York explores 50 quietly remarkable destinations across Rochester, the Finger Lakes, and Western New York. Pairing original photography with concise, place-based writing, this book invites a slower way of exploring-one rooted in attention, return visits, and the quiet beauty often missed along familiar routes.

Own Your Flow: Simple Strategies to Get in the Zone and Stay There

Most of us have experienced being "in the zone." It's an engaged and immersive mindset that leads to seemingly effortless creativity and productivity. Brain scientists and psychologists have a word for this state: flow.

In Flow For Dummies, renowned neuroscientist Dr. Julia F. Christensen walks you through the science of flow. She explains exactly how you can more easily reach those mental spaces where you find yourself fully immersed and engaged in activities. You'll learn to generate creative solutions to hard problems and improve your productivity by maximizing the amount of time you spend in a state of flow.

• Step-by-step instructions on the author's Flow method, a series of strategies and techniques for entering and maintaining flow states
• Inspirational stories and real-world examples of people in the arts, sports, and business using flow to reach new heights of well-being
• Expert insights and actionable tips you can apply immediately to enhance your focus, improve your creativity, and find peak motivation

Perfect for entrepreneurs, busy professionals, artists, creatives, busy moms and dads, and anyone else interested in learning to access their most productive and creative states, Flow For Dummies is an up-to-date and jargon-free guide packed with practical tips and techniques to generate flow.

An easy way to learn the art of stitching decorative designs onto fabric

Embroidery For Dummies teaches beginners of all ages and skill levels how to start creating unique and personalized designs. You'll learn the fundamentals in an approachable way, with ideas for inspiration and a step-by-step path to get you started. Gather your tools, plan your stitches, customize your embroidery art, and create designs you can be proud of. This book walks you through the process of embroidering to embellish clothing, create accessories, home décor, and gifts. Plus, you'll get tips for making your creations even more stunning by considering color theory while planning your projects.

• Discover the different styles and types of embroidery
• Gather the needles, yarns, hoops, and frames you'll need to get started
• Practice essential embroidery techniques and get advanced design ideas
• Troubleshoot when you run into issues, and learn to fix common mistakes

As an accessible hobby, a way to generate income, and a cool way to make personalized gifts, hand embroidery can be enjoyed by those of all skill levels. Embroidery For Dummies is the perfect way to start creating!

Level-up your basketball coaching skills with this practical collection of drills, advice, and tips

Looking for an easy-to-read and fun guide to teaching basketball that will help you keep your players engaged, learning, and having a blast?

The newly updated second edition of Coaching Basketball For Dummies delivers proven, practical explanations and tips - including basic drills, strategies for safely dealing with player injuries, maintaining player engagement, and running an effective practice - for coaching basketball teams at a variety of age levels.

You'll find useful techniques on everything from planning and managing travel schedules for out-of-town tournaments, supporting the mental health of your young players, and how to help individual team members recover from shooting slumps and rough patches in their play.

The book also includes:

• Powerful tips for improving basketball fundamentals in players of all ages
• Exercises and advice to help you become a more supportive coach
• Techniques to build camaraderie and trust amongst your players and between you and your team

Perfect for beginning youth basketball coaches, with a particular focus on people coaching kids between the ages of 5 and 16, Coaching Basketball For Dummies is also a can't-miss strategy guide for experienced coaches interested in picking up some proven, hands-on tips to improve their coaching skills.

What if some of the most influential spiritual writings in history were never meant to disappear?
What if voices once central to early faith were silenced, buried, or labeled dangerous, not because they lacked meaning, but because they carried too much?

Complete Lost Books of the Bible invites you into the vast, hidden world beyond the familiar canon, a world where early Judaism and Christianity were alive with diversity, debate, mystery, and bold spiritual imagination. Long before a single Bible was fixed by councils and creeds, sacred stories circulated as scrolls, oral teachings, visionary texts, and secret writings. This book brings those forgotten voices back into the light.

Inside these pages, you will discover how Scripture existed before institutions claimed authority, how competing Christian movements shaped radically different understandings of Jesus, salvation, angels, heaven, and knowledge itself, and why certain writings were eventually branded apocryphal, heretical, or dangerous. With clarity and historical depth, this volume explains the process of canonization, the politics of suppression, and the cost of uniform belief.

You will explore powerful Old Testament-era writings such as 1 Enoch, Jubilees, Jasher, and the Testament literature, where Watchers, fallen angels, divine calendars, and covenantal instruction reveal a much larger spiritual universe than most readers have ever encountered. You will then move into the forgotten gospels of Jesus, including Thomas, Philip, Peter, Mary Magdalene, and other suppressed texts, that present Jesus as teacher, revealer, and wisdom figure, often centering women, inner knowledge, and transformation rather than fear or control.

The book also opens the door to Gnostic Christianity, unveiling its rich cosmology of divine fullness, hidden heavenly realms, liberation through understanding, and the soul's journey beyond the material world. These writings are not presented sensationally, but thoughtfully, showing why they challenged authority and why they were so carefully hidden, burned, or buried.

Beyond history, Complete Lost Books of the Bible guides modern readers in how to approach these texts today: without dogma, without fear, and without needing to abandon faith. Helpful appendices, timelines, glossaries, and comparative overviews make complex material accessible, while maintaining scholarly integrity and spiritual depth.

This book benefits you by:

• Expanding your understanding of early Judaism and Christianity

• Revealing how and why biblical books were selected, excluded, or suppressed

• Offering clear explanations of apocryphal, pseudepigraphal, and Gnostic texts

• Presenting alternative portraits of Jesus grounded in ancient sources

• Helping you read controversial texts with balance, courage, and clarity

If you have ever wondered what was lost, what was hidden, and what still speaks from beneath centuries of silence, this book was written for you.

Step beyond the canon. Rediscover silenced wisdom. Reclaim the fuller story of sacred history.
Add Complete Lost Books of the Bible to your collection today and begin reading what history almost erased.

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Leander was once a gifted wizard and revered teacher-now, he's a forgotten outcast, drifting through the ruins of his former life. Haunted by past mistakes and dulled by years of isolation, his days blur into a colorless routine, devoid of true magic or meaning.

That is, until he reluctantly attends a long-avoided mages' conference at the Arcane Conclave. Amid familiar halls and long-lost faces, something stirs within him: the thrill of learning, the warmth of camaraderie, and a flicker of hope. When Leander discovers a rare artifact that unlocks ancient, untamed magic, he glimpses a power he never thought he'd wield again.

But the resurgence of wonder is short-lived.

A brutal massacre shatters the gathering, plunging Leander into chaos. Fleeing to a remote village, he must come to terms with his newfound abilities and confront the ghosts of his past. As the perpetrators close in, Leander faces a choice: succumb to the shadows that have long defined him, or rise to meet a destiny he thought he'd lost.

Rise of the Shadowmage is a spellbinding tale of redemption, resilience, and the courage to begin again. It asks:

Is it ever too late to learn something new?

Can a forgotten hero reclaim his light?

Will the outcast rise from the ashes of regret to embrace his true power?

Step into a world where shadows aren't just remnants of the past-they are the crucible in which destiny is forged and the shadows may hold the key to a brighter future.

When you cook with passion and love, you bring people together and create lasting memories.

A classic Italian cookbook celebrating family, tradition and the joy of meals bursting with love. With heartwarming 'Nonna-approved' recipes and stories, globally loved online Italian food ambassador Vincenzo Prosperi and his wife, Suzanne, open their family cookbooks, sharing dishes passed down from Abruzzo and Calabria alongside timeless classics. Each simple, authentic recipe is a reminder that you don't need to dine out to experience the real taste of Italy.

Ella Jones knows what to expect from the long, hard winters in the northern reaches of Maine: mostly boredom and monotony, broken up with a bit of skiing or quality time spent with her family. Which leaves her utterly unprepared for the arrival of Benjamin Kakoa, a professional athlete turned advocate in need of a break from fame and notoriety.

With her world - okay, locally - famous wit and special brand of self-deprecation, Ella goes on a full-blown charm offensive to coax Ben out of his shell. But with a rocky past and an uncertain future, Ben's walls are tougher to tear down than she could have ever anticipated. And once they fall, Ella and Ben will have to come to terms with the potentially tragic reality of their love.

LA NOVELA GANADORA DEL PREMIO ALFAGUARA 2026

«Ofrece una lectura simbólica, casi mítica, sobre la guerra, el poder y la resistencia. Una gran épica de los vencidos». -Del acta del Jurado

Año 1014. Tras derrotar a los búlgaros en la batalla de Klyuch, el emperador bizantino Basilio II ordena arrancar los ojos de los quince mil soldados del ejército enemigo, dejando tuerto a uno de cada cien hombres para que guíen a los ciegos de regreso a casa. Durante semanas, una columna de desarrapados recorre a tientas el largo camino hasta la capital búlgara, donde los recibe el zar Samuel, que ante el terrible espectáculo de sus hombres humillados, cae fulminado por la pena. Lo sucede en el trono su hijo Gavril, heredero de un imperio amenazado que deberá defender haciendo uso de la astucia para elevar la moral del pueblo después de la última derrota.

Murallas afuera, los enemigos acechan, mientras en las calles de la ciudad los soldados intentan retomar sus vidas. Hay quien se esconde y guarda silencio, está el que descubre que sus manos pueden sustituir a la vista, algunos temen parecer monstruos y no falta aquel que hace un buen negocio vendiendo preciosas cuentas de cerámica que simulan ser ojos. Y entre todos ellos hay un escriba invidente que, incapacitado para copiar lo que ya fue escrito, vuelca en el pergamino una historia que crece en él: la de los quince mil ciegos y su inesperada revancha.

Historia, inventiva y poesía confluyen en este magnífico retablo inspirado en las crónicas medievales y en uno de los episodios más crueles de las guerras bizantinas. El ejército ciego nos habla, con deliciosa ironía e ingenio, sobre las narrativas del pasado y sobre cómo el testimonio de los vencidos desaparece fácilmente en el olvido.

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THE WINNING NOVEL OF THE 2026 ALFAGUARA PRIZE

"Offers a symbolic, almost mythical reading of war, power, and resistance. A great epic of the defeated." --from the Jury's citation

Year 1014. After defeating the Bulgarians at the Battle of Klyuch, the Byzantine emperor Basil II orders the eyes of fifteen thousand enemy soldiers to be put out, leaving one man in every hundred with a single eye so that he may lead the blind back home. For weeks, a ragged column gropes its way along the long road to the Bulgarian capital, where they are received by Tsar Samuel, who, confronted with the terrible sight of his humiliated men, is struck dead by grief. He is succeeded on the throne by his son Gavril, heir to a threatened empire who must rely on cunning to raise the people's morale after the latest defeat.

Beyond the city walls, enemies lie in wait, while in the streets soldiers attempt to resume their lives. Some hide and keep silent; others discover that their hands can replace sight; some fear appearing monstrous, and there is no shortage of those who make a good business selling precious ceramic beads that imitate eyes. And among them all there is a blind scribe who, unable to copy what has already been written, pours onto parchment a story that grows within him: that of the fifteen thousand blind men and their unexpected revenge.

History, invention, and poetry converge in this magnificent tableau inspired by medieval chronicles and by one of the cruelest episodes of the Byzantine wars. The Blind Army speaks to us, with delightful irony and ingenuity, about the narratives of the past and about how the testimony of the defeated so easily vanishes into oblivion.

From bestselling and award-winning author Hilary Davidson, Every Lie I Told is a propulsive, twisty thriller about the devastating consequences of the lies we tell to protect others--and ourselves.

How far would you go to protect a killer?

Jackie Swift does whatever it takes to succeed. At work, she spins lies to protect questionable clients at a shady public-relations firm. At home, she helps her younger sister, Madi, evade consequences for dangerous choices she's made about friends and drugs. But Jackie's professional and personal worlds collide one night when she gets a call from Madi telling her she overdosed. Rushing to the rescue, Jackie stumbles on an awful scene at an Upper East Side mansion. Madi is nowhere to be found, but she's left behind a dead body.

Worse for Jackie, she knows the dead man all too well: He's her former boss and mentor, and she's been paid to cover up his crimes in the past.

Jackie is willing to do anything to protect her missing sister, even as the NYPD builds a case against Madi, who may be involved in the deaths of other sexually abusive men. As Jackie searches for her sister--and sets up plausible suspects to take Madi's place in the eyes of the police--she's haunted by the terrible things she's done in service of her career. And she soon discovers there are people who've been waiting in the shadows for a chance to take her down.