Collection: Adult

A brilliant new short story from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Madeline Miller--her first new work of fiction since the publication of Circe--that vibrantly reimagines the powerful and forgotten myth of Mestra.

A cursed father, a gifted daughter

Mestra, daughter of the King of Thessaly, is granted a unique gift by Poseidon: the ability to transform into any being she can imagine.

Her father, on the other hand, is cursed: As punishment for disrespecting the goddess Demeter, he is in possession of an unnatural, insatiable hunger.

Devoted Mestra suggests using her new gift to help her father. But if his hunger is bottomless, how much will he take from her? Soon she must decide: Will she keep helping her father survive, or finally break free?

A jewel-like tale of human fallibility, Mestra confirms Madeline Miller as our high priestess of mythology.

East Asian classics made vegan--from Dim Sum dumplings to Sichuan-style Dan Dan noodles--inspired by beloved creator WoonHeng's life immersing herself in Asia's bold, vibrant flavors

WoonHeng Chia, known for sharing recipes online under the handle @Woon.Heng, grew up in Malaysia, an ethnically diverse country where she was constantly surrounded by an amazing array of East Asian cuisines. From the local markets and coffee shops to the dai chow stir fry joints where she and her loved ones would dine out, WoonHeng's memories of home were shaped by the diverse and delicious flavors all around her. When she embraced a plant-based diet, she was inspired to master vegan versions of dishes from dim sum and noodle stir fries to endlessly creative tofu and mushroom recipes. The Vegan Asian Kitchen is a comprehensive and loving look at the naturally plant-forward dishes of East Asia, as well as some of WoonHeng's own creations and favorite culinary memories.

Packed with delicious recipes such as nasi lemak, sweet-and-sour "pork," crispy-bottom potstickers, eggplant "unagi" rice bowls, and silky mapo tofu, The Vegan Asian Kitchen showcases crave-worthy plant-based cooking. WoonHeng also shares Malaysia street food treasures such as roti canai and Thai favorites like drunken noodles. She also transforms mushrooms into the popular Hainanese "chicken" rice and offers homecooked dishes inspired by her mothers, alongside touching family stories and insights on Malaysian and Chinese cultural traditions.
Including a guide to key pantry ingredients like noodles and specialty greens, and a must-have basics chapter for making condiments like Sambal and Chili Oil at home, this cookbook is what every reader needs to satisfy their cravings for the spicy, savory, tangy flavors of East Asian cooking.

A love letter to the rookie in all of us: Singer-actor Joshua Bassett's fearless memoir in verse about surviving the darkest moments of fame, addiction, and mental health struggles--and finding hope on the other side.

"We're all figuring it out as we go along. Even the 'pros.'"

This brutally honest collection reveals what it's like to have your most private moments become public--what really happens when you give a broken teenager the world at his fingertips, then watch him nearly lose everything.

"This is, to date, my most vulnerable and terrifying piece of work."

From the depths of addiction and suicidal ideation to the hard-won lessons of recovery, Bassett shares his journey with raw vulnerability and courage. Along the way, he discovers that even in our darkest moments, we can choose to keep moving forward.

"The only way out of fear is to face it again and again until it loses its grip."

More than a memoir, Rookie is a movement celebrating the sacred space between who we've been and who we're becoming. A hopeful roadmap and practical wisdom for anyone learning that your worst moments don't define you, even when the whole world is watching.

"I keep waiting for the sea to settle when I need to learn how to surf."

For anyone who's ever felt like an outsider, struggled with self-doubt, or wondered if things can get better, this book is for you.

Explore the early days of the iconic American Girl brand, from developing key characters to opening the first store!

Go behind-the-scenes of the creation of one of America's most iconic brands, American Girl. From founder Pleasant Rowland's original business plan scribbled on a yellow legal pad to the culmination of her dream to add a store and a magazine, readers will discover never before seen art, letters, product designs, and so much more.

Includes material from the archives of American Girl - some of which have never before been seen by the public!

Packaged in a beautiful, sprawling coffee table book, get ready to immerse yourself in the history of Pleasant Company and American Girl.

When Sarah Hanson realized she had to leave her abusive relationship, she didn't have a plan. She had fear, instinct, and a body that had learned how to survive.

Conjuring the Hurricane is a survival memoir-in-verse about leaving a life that's killing you and rebuilding a self you can finally live inside. Told in fragments that mirror the way trauma lives in the body, the book traces the nonlinear work of reclaiming identity, trust, and agency after abuse.

This is a story of escape and aftermath, of learning to trust what the body knows, and of joy returning slowly, in unexpected forms. It is not a guide to the perfect exit, but a testament to the exit that saves you.

For anyone who has ever wondered how she got here.

For anyone who has ever whispered, how do I get out.

This book is a permission slip to choose survival.

A sharp, funny examination of fame in the digital era and what makes our hunger for it equally alluring and embarrassing--from the podcasters behind Who? Weekly

"I Want to Be Famous takes you on a Regal Cinemas rollercoaster pre-show ride through the history of celebrity, then pulls gems of insight and humor from the garbage dump of our strange present. Lindsey and Bobby are not-so-secretly my generation's smartest close-readers of the contemporary pop culture paradigm."--Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror

While being photographed in 1966, Warhol reportedly said, "Everyone wants to be famous." (To which his photographer Nat Finkelstein responded, "Yeah, for about fifteen minutes, Andy.") Warhol was right then, and he's right now. Fifteen minutes be damned, all you need is the drive--or desperation--and a singular spark. But if you're not careful, you'll end up a Who.

Who is a Who? In I Want to Be Famous, Bobby Finger and Lindsey Weber, the journalists behind the pop culture podcast Who? Weekly, distill celebrity into two categories--Whos and Thems--transcending the snarky, antiquated judgment of the "A-listers" to "D-listers." If you come across an allegedly famous face you've never seen before and are compelled to utter "Who?", well, there's your answer. (Can you picture Rita Ora, Ava Max, or Hilaria Baldwin without googling them?) If the subject elicits something along the lines of, "Oh, Them," there you've found the opposite (Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Tom Cruise). It's the fundamental binary of fame.

And yet, as more Whos spawn, the path to Themdom narrows. We've entered an era where accessibility to fame is within everyone's grasp, though only a select few can crack the algorithm and hold our ever-diminishing attention spans. Celebrities have taken desperate measures to stay relevant--from the makeup, supplements, and alcohol they peddle to the Notes app apologies they post--as the media who cover them compete with celebrities breaking their own news on social media and as PopCrave decides who "stuns" next.

Blending juicy pop culture history with the authors' signature wit, I Want to Be Famous argues fame no longer means ubiquity and examines what the future holds for those seeking our collective attention.

"This book is about the kind of courage you need when it would be easier to quit. Amy doesn't just talk about moving forward--she shows you how to do it with honesty, heart, and grit.​"

--Mel Robbins, New York Times bestselling author and host of The Mel Robbins Podcast

New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned speaker Amy Purdy shares 21 practical tools to help you not only survive life's hardest moments but learn to heal, grow, and ultimately thrive.

When Amy Purdy was nineteen, a sudden and severe case of bacterial meningitis resulted in the loss of both legs below the knee and nearly took her life. Her dream of becoming a professional snowboarder seemed impossible until she transformed her grief and loss into fuel and rebuilt her life one tiny step at a time.

Amy not only became a trailblazer in her sport--she made history as a three-time Paralympic medalist. She went on to inspire millions around the world, tour with Oprah Winfrey, deliver unforgettable performances on Dancing with the Stars, and speak on some of the largest stages in the world.

Two decades later, after rebuilding her life and career, Amy faced a new battle. A sudden and devastating injury threatened her ability to walk again, and she began a profound journey of physical, emotional, and spiritual healing.

In Bounce Forward, Amy shares this raw and intimate chapter of her life, showing that true resilience is not about returning to who you once were but becoming someone stronger, wiser, and more whole. Through gripping stories, practical science, and soulful reflection, she introduces twenty-one actionable tools that helped her shift from:

- Grief to hope

- Helpless to empowered

- Limited to limitless

- Criticizing your body to celebrating it

- Giving up to finding your way

- And more . . .

Warm, practical, and profoundly healing, Bounce Forward is a guidebook for rebuilding after your most difficult moments that offers everyday practices for moving through adversity, reconnecting with your inner strength, and rising into a more fulfilling life.

The much-awaited next move from Steven Bartlett, creator of the highly popular podcast The Diary of a CEO

How do you do the thing when you don't know how to do the thing?

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who talk about changing their lives, and those who actually do it. This book is written for the second group: for anyone ready to cross that line.

After close to a decade spent interviewing scientists and spies, monks and misfits, billionaires and athletes, founders and failures, Steven has learned one truth that sits above all others: the thing blocking you isn't talent, luck, resources or readiness. It's the wall you've built around yourself. And it's not made of concrete - it's made of paper.

Blending unforgettable stories from the world's biggest doers with methods drawn from behavioural science, Just F*cking Do It gives you the tools to overcome fear, easy comfort, inertia, embarrassment or self-deception and to take action. Now. Before the window closes.

Because this isn't just a book - it's a wake-up call. Will you answer it?

A decorated Marine combat pilot Naval Academy graduate reveals what he learned about American power that the history books left out.

America tells one story about itself. The world sees another.

After serving across Asia and the Middle East, Michael T. Lester began noticing a gap between what he was told and what he saw. The locals didn't look liberated. The missions didn't match the slogans. So he spent twenty years using his training as a historian to find out why.

We Are The Bad Guys connects what's usually kept separate: the coups, the sanctions, the covert operations, and the media narratives that frame them all as defensive, humanitarian, or necessary. Drawing on declassified documents, leaked cables, and the work of respected historians, this book traces a century of U.S. intervention and asks a question most Americans have never been encouraged to consider: What if we're not the good guys?

What you'll discover:

• • How U.S. wars, coups, and covert ops have reshaped nations across Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, and Southeast Asia
  • How "freedom," "democracy," and "security" are used to manufacture public support for intervention
  • Why the rest of the world sees America so differently than Americans do-and what they know that we don't
  • The financial and intelligence tools used to destabilize countries without deploying a single soldier

Readers are calling it:

"A must-read for anyone willing to question the narratives they've been taught." ★★★★★

"Should be required reading for ALL Americans." ★★★★★

"Makes your blood boil while simultaneously making you rethink everything you believe." ★★★★★

This isn't anti-American. It's pro-truth. Written for general readers in clear, direct language-no jargon, no ideology, just documented history most of us were never taught.

Perfect for readers of Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, and Andrew Bacevich.

About the Author

Michael T. Lester is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and a former Marine Corps combat pilot who served across Asia and the Middle East. Now a cybersecurity executive, he spent two decades researching U.S. foreign policy, national security strategy, and the gap between America's stated values and its actual behavior abroad. He writes to help readers see past slogans and understand how power really works.

**This new hardcover edition of the sixth book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Never After series will have specially printed edges and an exclusive case design.**

He's the prince of La Cosa Nostra. She's the witch who steals his heart.

Venesa Andersen has never been good. She wasn't good enough for her parents, and she isn't good enough for the gangster uncle who took her in after they died. But she's cunning. Beautiful. Dutiful to her uncle's demands. And she doesn't have time for a moral compass, anyway. When her runaway cousin returns to their coastal southern town, she brings a man with her...and Venesa soon realizes he's the only one who's ever seen her for her.

There's just one problem: she can never have him.

Enzo "Loverboy" Marino is a wealthy businessman by day and prince of the underworld by night. Underboss to a notorious mafia syndicate, he answers to no one except his father, the strongest don in the northeast. When he's tasked with marriage, Enzo doesn't think twice.

Until he meets his fiancée's cousin.

Venesa is everything he never knew he wanted, bewitching him with her sultry voice and supple curves. But Enzo learned long ago that for a man like him, life is better without the things you want. When plans unravel and temptation sings its siren song, they'll both have to choose what's more important: duty to their families or a forbidden love that was never supposed to be.

Named one of the most anticipated nonfiction books of 2026 by The New York Times Book Review

The definitive, colorful history of American sports betting that challenges the dialogue around one of our country's fastest growing (and most controversial) industries.

Taking readers on a rollicking journey through the history of American sports betting, Over/Under proposes a fascinating and unexpected theory: What if sports betting isn't just a result of the multibillion-dollar American sports industry, but rather the primary reason for it? An essential catalyst for nearly two hundred years of sports fandom and obsession?

The narrative starts in mid-nineteenth-century New York City, as a new sport called baseball lures bettors out of shadowy gambling halls and into the fresh air. The story then heads to Churchill Downs and Augusta National Golf Club where sports betting dresses up in fancy outfits, to Chicago and Minneapolis where sports betting meets the Mafia and gets some structure, and to Las Vegas and the Caribbean where sports betting makes some people very rich.

Along the way, the story rolls out a cast of colorful characters: hustlers, wise guys, moguls, opportunists, grifters, touts. A parade of personalities, year after year, all trying to make a quick buck. Because isn't that the whole point?

Written for those eager to explore the history of a recently-legalized industry--one that's been described both as a financial bonanza and an impending disaster--Over/Under is poised to become the definitive history of a controversial industry in the midst of incredible, yet uncertain, growth.

From Eric Ries, creator of The Lean Startup, comes a bold and urgently needed rethink of how organizations are built--and why success itself so often turns companies against the people and principles that made them worth building in the first place.

For decades, we've explained corporate corruption as a problem of bad actors, moral weakness, or isolated scandals. But that story doesn't match reality. Again and again, companies founded with strong ideals drift toward short-term thinking, extractive behavior, and mission abandonment--often despite the best intentions of the people inside them.

Incorruptible argues that this failure is not primarily ethical. It is structural.

As organizations grow, the systems that govern them--ownership, incentives, charters, accountability, and decision-making--quietly reshape behavior. When those systems are poorly designed, even principled leaders are pushed toward outcomes they never wanted. Success itself becomes a form of financial gravity, bending companies away from their original purpose.

Drawing on two decades of work with founders, CEOs, investors, and institution builders, Ries shows how these failures arise predictably--and how they can be prevented. He reframes corporate governance not as bureaucracy or compliance, but as a creative and strategic act at the heart of building enduring, mission-controlled companies.

At a moment when trust in business is eroding, Incorruptible offers a clear-eyed diagnosis and a practical blueprint for change.

Success alone will not protect what matters most. Only incorruptible design can.

An authoritative collection including over 70 brand new poems celebrating the strength, beauty, and joy of being a woman, from the best-selling author of Wild Hope and Words to Live By.

To the Women is a celebration of the beauty, strength, and joy of being a woman. In this love letter to our deep capacity to love, rage, fear, and rebuild, best-selling poet Donna Ashworth reminds us that we are stronger when we come together and unstoppable when we accept ourselves. With poems like "Be That Woman," "Take Up Space," "When One Woman Screams," "There Will Be Days," and "To the Woman Who Thinks She Isn't Good Enough," Donna helps us find comfort, inspiration, and courage in the many roles we play in life as daughters, guides, mothers, and friends.

Originally self-published in 2020 with 48 poems, this beautiful edition has been fully revised and updated, featuring classic favorites alongside more than 70 new poems. In these pages full of wisdom and comfort every woman needs to hear, Donna helps us see that we're never walking alone.

Disney Legend and Imagineer Joe Rohde unlocks the secrets of creativity in this powerful exploration of imagination, innovation, and life lessons for turning vision into reality.

In this inspiring narrative, Imagineer, explorer, and Disney Legend Joe Rohde offers a master class in creativity on a world-spanning journey to discover the origins of personal creativity, the power and potential of enterprising groups, and the remarkable parallels between collaboration and exploring the real world.
With lessons drawn from his celebrated career and life experiences--leading projects such as Disney's Animal Kingdom, ventures into space tourism, field expeditions to far-flung corners of the world, managing design teams, and working with corporate executives--Rohde dives deep into the nature, nurture, and practice of collaboration. He explains how to keep ideas to true to their origins while allowing for improvisation and accident to enhance, not derail, creative endeavors.
These are stories of inspiration and invention, challenge and transgression, success and failure, laced with humor, contemplation, poignancy, and even life-threatening danger. Whether your interest in creativity is personal, professional, or you just want to peek behind the curtain of a renowned creative mind, Rohde's lessons provide a guide for connecting your creative pursuits with others and the larger world.