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Make Noise: A Creator's Guide to Podcasting and Great Audio Storytelling

Eric Nuzum · Workman Publishing Company
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback

Podcasting is the fast-growing media platform in the world, with currently 650,000 podcasts out there, in 100 languages, and offering over 20 million episodes. And we're only at the beginning. More and more podcasts appear every day, and more and more entrepreneurs, businesses, individuals,...
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The Gift of Forgiveness: Inspiring Stories from Those Who Have Overcome the Unforgivable

Katherine Schwarzenegger · Pamela Dorman Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

A fresh, inspiring book on learning how to forgive--with firsthand stories from those who have learned to let go of resentment and find peace

"When we learn to embrace forgiveness, it opens us up to healing, hope, and a new world of possibility." --Katherine Schwarzenegger...
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Capital and Ideology

Thomas Piketty · Belknap Press
Pages: 1104
Format: Hardcover

The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system.

Thomas Piketty's bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century...

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This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 lessons on how to wake up, take action, and do the work

Tiffany Jewell · Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

Who are you? What is racism? Where does it come from? Why does it exist? What can you do to disrupt it? Learn about social identities, the history of racism and resistance against it, and how you can use your anti-racist lens and voice to move the world toward equity and liberation.

"In...
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Hello, Cookie Dough: 110 Doughlicious Confections to Eat, Bake, and Share

Kristen Tomlan · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Safe-to-eat cookie doughs and baked treats from the creator of the world's first edible cookie dough shop

Finally, you can eat cookie dough how you've always craved it: straight from the mixing bowl! In her rule-breaking first book, Kristen Tomlan, the Queen of Cookie Dough, spills...
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Everything Isn't Terrible: Conquer Your Insecurities, Interrupt Your Anxiety, and Finally Calm Down

Kathleen Smith · Hachette Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

In the spirit of You Are a Badass and The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck, a helpful and humorous guide to shedding our anxious habits and building a more solid sense of self in our increasingly anxiety-inducing world.

Licensed therapist and mental health writer...
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Simple Farmhouse Life: DIY Projects for the All-Natural, Hand-Made Home

Bass, Lisa · LYONS PR
Format: Book

Transform your home into a simple farmhouse--no matter where you live--with this beautiful guide to slow living. Country girl and popular blogger Lisa Bass shares her favorite hearty recipes, handmade projects, and tips for natural living that she uses in her own from-scratch life. Slow...
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100 Fashion Icons

Keaney, Magda · NATL PORTRAIT GALLERY
Format: Book

From Elsa Sciaperelli to Kate Moss, portraits of the most fashionable faces of the last 100 years

This richly illustrated gift book showcases 100 portraits of key fashion figures from the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London. The portraits illustrate...

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Rewild Yourself: Making Nature More Visible in our Lives

Simon Barnes · Pegasus Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

For those readers who want to get closer to the nature all around them and bring it back into focus within their lives, this book is the ideal companion.

We're not just losing the wild world. We're forgetting it. We're no longer noticing it. We've lost the habit of looking and seeing...

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Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, Sexy, and Smart―Until You're 80 and Beyond

Chris Crowley · Workman Publishing Company
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

To mark the 15th anniversary of the bestselling series, Younger Next Year now includes two new chapters on the link between physical exercise and brain health. Their message is straightforward: A program of consistent exercise and eating right not only helps us physically but improves...
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Consider This

Chuck Palahniuk · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Renowned, bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk takes us behind the scenes of the writing life, with postcards from decades on the road and incredible examination of the power of fiction and the art of storytelling.

In this spellbinding blend of memoir and insight, bestselling author...
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Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir

Rebecca Solnit · Viking
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent

In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere...
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Summer Snow: New Poems

Robert Hass · Ecco
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

A major collection of entirely new poems from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials and The Apple Trees at Olema

A new volume of poetry from Robert Hass is always an event. In Summer Snow, his first collection of poems since 2010, Hass...

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Success from the Inside Out: Power to Rise from the Past to a Fulfilling Future

Jones, Nona · ZONDERVAN

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Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale

Adam Minter · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Junkyard Planet, a journey into the surprising afterlives of our former possessions.

Downsizing. Decluttering. A parent's death. Sooner or later, all of us are faced with things we no longer need or want. But when we drop our old clothes and other items...

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Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way

Mungi Ngomane · Harper Design
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Mungi Ngomane, granddaughter of Nobel Peace Prize-winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu, offers an introduction to ubuntu, the Southern African philosophy that celebrates the universal human bond in this beautiful definitive guide, illustrated with full-color...

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The Mediterranean Method: Lose Weight, Prevent Heart Disease, Avoid Memory Loss...and More with the Healthiest Diet on the Planet

Steven Masley M.D. · Harmony
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

From a bestselling author and physician, this fresh approach to the Mediterranean diet updates the cuisine and eating style ranked #1 by U.S. News and World Report in 2019, helping readers lose weight and improve the health of their heart, brain, gut, and microbiome.

From...
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Ready or Not: Preparing Our Kids to Thrive in an Uncertain and Rapidly Changing World

Madeline Levine PhD · Harper
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Price of Privilege and Teach Your Children Well explores how today's parenting techniques and our myopic educational system are failing to prepare children for their certain-to-be-uncertain future - and how we can reverse course to ensure...

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When My Time Comes: Conversations About Whether Those Who Are Dying Should Have the Right to Determine When Life Should End

Diane Rehm · Knopf
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

From Diane Rehm, renowned radio host--one of the most trusted voices in the nation--and best-selling author: a book of candor and compassion, addressing the urgent, hotly contested cause of the Right-to-Die movement, of which she is one of our most inspiring champions.

Soon to be a public...
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Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

Jennie Allen · WaterBrook
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The visionary behind the million-strong IF:Gathering challenges Christian women to transform their outlook and their lives by interrupting their spiraling thoughts and realizing their God-given power to think differently.

Speaker and Bible teacher Jennie Allen hears all the time...
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The No-Cry Sleep Solution, Second Edition

Elizabeth Pantley · McGraw-Hill Education
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

The classic, best-selling no-tears guide to making sure your baby -- and you -- get a full night's sleep has been updated - it is now easier to use and has been expanded to include more solutions plus critical new safety information.

Nearly all babies fight sleep. Some people argue...

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Comeback Careers: Rethink, Refresh, Reinvent Your Success--At 40, 50, and Beyond

Mika Brzezinski · Hachette Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

STRONG, WISER, BETTER

An Essential Guide for Reentering, Reinventing, or Rebooting Your Career at Any Age

So many women hit midlife and realize: it's time for a career change. Maybe you're yearning to try something new, or you're sensing that layoffs are coming and you need...
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The Calling: 3 Fundamental Shifts to Stay True, Get Paid, and Do Good

Rha Goddess · St. Martin's Essentials
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A game-changing book offering a six-step approach on how to find and follow your true calling and redefine success from entrepeneur and soul coach Rha Goddess.

Are you willing to believe in you?

Every single one of us has a calling.

For most it's the thing you have...

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F*ck Your Diet: And Other Things My Thighs Tell Me

Chloe Hilliard · Gallery Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Fans of Issa Rae and Phoebe Robinson will love this collection of laugh-out-loud funny and insightful essays that explore race, feminism, pop culture, and how society reinforces the message that we are nothing without the perfect body.

By the time Chloé Hilliard was 12, she wore...
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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...

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Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases

Viet Thanh Nguyen · Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A unique collaboration between the American Civil Liberties Union and authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, Fight of the Century features original essays by the most influential writers at work today - including Jennifer Egan, Neil Gaiman, Marlon James, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Salman...
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Average is the New Awesome: A Manifesto for the Rest of Us

Samantha Matt · Seal Press
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

A celebration of ordinary awesomeness, for all of us who were told "You can do anything!" and then found out we actually can't
Crappy homes, lame love lives, getting passed over for a great job (again) --not what we expected for our adulthoods. Americans tell their children...
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Father of Lions: One Man's Remarkable Quest to Save the Mosul Zoo

Louise Callaghan · Forge Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Father of Lions is the powerful true story of the evacuation of the Mosul Zoo, featuring Abu Laith the zookeeper, Simba the lion cub, Lula the bear, and countless others, faithfully depicted by acclaimed, award-winning journalist Louise Callaghan in her trade publishing debut.

Combining...

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