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The Ultimate Guide to Witchcraft: A Modern-Day Guide to Making Magick

Anjou Kiernan · Fair Winds Press
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

Written by Anjou Kiernan - named "One of the Magical Women You Should be Following on Instagram," by Refinery 29 - The Ultimate Guide to Witchcraft is a beginner's guide to the practice of witchcraft, providing a complete toolkit for cultivating your own practice. Magic is not for the select...
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Tiny Habits: The Small Changes that Change Everything

BJ Fogg Ph.D · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The world's leading expert on habit formation shows how you can have a happier, healthier life: by starting small.

Myth: Change is hard. Reality: Change can be easy if you know the simple steps of Behavior Design.

Myth: It's all about willpower. Reality:...
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Let's Be Weird Together: A Book about Love

Barker, Brooke · WORKMAN PR


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Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

George Chauncey · Basic Books
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback

The award-winning, field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet, where gay men were isolated, invisible, and self-hating. Drawing on a rich trove...
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Trump and His Generals: The Cost of Chaos

Peter Bergen · Penguin Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From one of America's preeminent national security journalists, an explosive, news-breaking account of Donald Trump's collision with the American national security establishment, and with the world

It is a simple fact that no president in American history brought less foreign policy...
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Australian Heist

James Phelps · HarperCollins
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

Australia's Number 1 True Crime Writer on Australia's Greatest Gold Robbery. On 15 June 1862, a gang of bushrangers held up a gold escort at Eugowra, just east of Forbes, NSW. They escaped with a pile of cash and 77 kilograms of gold, worth about $10 million today. It remains the largest...
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The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia

Emma Copley Eisenberg · Hachette Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A stunningly written investigation of the murder of two young women--showing how a violent crime casts a shadow over an entire community. In the early evening of June 25, 1980 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class outsiders named Vicki Durian, 26, and Nancy Santomero, 19, were...
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Alexander, Michelle · NEW PR

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Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus

Jennifer S. Hirsch · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking study that transforms how we see and address the most misunderstood problem on college campuses: widespread sexual assault.

The fear of campus sexual assault has become an inextricable part of the college experience. And for far too many students, that fear is realized....

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What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She

Dennis Baron · Liveright
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Contextualizing one of the most pressing cultural questions of our generation, Dennis Baron reveals the untold story of how we got from he and she to zie and hir and singular- they.Like trigger warnings and gender-neutral bathrooms, pronouns are sparking a national debate, prompting new policies...
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The Keto Longevity Diet: Reset Your Clock in 21 Days and Live a Longer, Healthier Life

Mark Sisson · Harmony
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Mark Sisson, bestselling author of The Keto Reset Diet and publisher of the number one paleo blog, reveals a new ketogenic eating plan that promotes anti-aging and the longevity benefits of keto and resets your biological clock in just weeks.At 65, Mark Sisson is in peak condition and excellent...
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The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist

Kerry Daynes · Cassell
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

'Enthralling and terrifying in equal amounts. A chilling glimpse into a world unseen by so many and perhaps for very good reasons. Kerry guides us gently, but firmly, through her incredible world of miscreants, monsters and the misunderstood. Both unforgettable and unputdownable.'...
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Mediterranean Instant Pot: Easy, Inspired Meals for Eating Well

America's Test Kitchen · America's Test Kitchen
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Bringing together the #1 diet and the #1 most popular kitchen appliance, this Instant Pot-authorized cookbook makes it more convenient than ever to cook the Mediterranean way, incorporating more vegetables, grains, beans, and seafood into your diet, and exploring the healthful, authentic...
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One-Day DIY: Modern Farmhouse Furniture: Beautiful Handmade Tables, Seating and More the Fast and Easy Way

JP Strate · Page Street Publishing
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

JP Strate and Liz Spillman, known for their hit YouTube channel The Rehab Life, are here to show readers that anyone can build amazing custom furniture and home decor without a large budget or time commitment. With simple techniques and tips on renting tools and buying pre-cut wood, this...
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Elemental Knits: A Perennial Knitwear Collection

Courtney Spainhower · Interweave
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

Elemental Knits is for women who aspire to be ever stylish, more comfortable, and less wasteful. With knitwear designer Courtney Spainhower, you'll craft an appearance that truly reflects your spirit with a collection of 20 knitting patterns designed to enhance your wardrobe year-round....
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Morning Glory on the Vine: Early Songs and Drawings

Joni Mitchell · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 136
Format: Hardcover

A gorgeous compendium of Joni Mitchell's handwritten lyrics and drawings, originally handcrafted as a gift for a select group of friends in 1971 and now available to the public for the first time

In 1971, as her album Blue topped charts around the world, Joni Mitchell crafted...
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97,196 Words: Essays

Emmanuel Carrère · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A selection of the best short work by France's greatest living nonfiction writerOver the course of his career, Emmanuel Carrère has reinvented nonfiction writing. In a search for truth in all its guises, he dispenses with the rules of genre. For him, no form is out of reach: Theology,...
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Vanity Fair's Women on Women

Radhika Jones · Penguin Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Looking back at the last thirty-five years of Vanity Fair stories on women, by women, with an introduction by the magazine's editor in chief, Radhika JonesGail Sheehy on Hillary Clinton. Ingrid Sischy on Nicole Kidman. Jacqueline Woodson on Lena Waithe. Leslie Bennetts on Michelle Obama....
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Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains

Cassie Chambers · Ballantine Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

After rising from poverty to earn two Ivy League degrees, an Appalachian lawyer pays tribute to the strong "hill women" who raised and inspired her, and whose values have the potential to rejuvenate a struggling region - an uplifting and eye-opening memoir for readers of Hillbilly...
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