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Rabbit Moon
by Jennifer Haigh
Set in Shanghai, a fractured American family faces their complicated past.
Four years after their bitter divorce, Claire and Aaron Litvak get a phone call no parent is prepared for: Their twenty-two-year-old daughter Lindsey, teaching English in China during a college gap year, has been critically injured in a hit-and-run accident. At a Shanghai hospital they wait at her bedside, hoping for the best and preparing for the worst. As Claire and Aaron struggle to get their bearings, they face troubling questions about Lindsey’s life there, in which nothing is as it seems.
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Small Ceremonies
by Kyle Edwards
A debut coming-of-age novel centered on a community finding itself.
Tomahawk Shields (a.k.a. Tommy) and Clinton Whiteway–two friends who play for their high school’s hockey team, The Tigers–are on the cusp of adulthood, imagining a future rife with possibility and greatness. But when they learn the league wants them out at the start of the new season, their annual goal to win their first game in years becomes more important than ever. Following the two boys over the course of a year, a chorus of voices depicts a community filled with individuals searching for purpose, leading them all to one fateful and tragic night.
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The Gatsby Gambit
by Claire Anderson-Wheeler
In a reimagining of some of American’s most beloved literary characters, The Gatsby Gambit explores a world of class, money, glamour, and foul play.
Greta Gatsby has at last graduated from her stifling finishing school and hopes to finally have her own legendary summer with her brother and guardian, Jay, at his West Egg mansion. Orphaned together some years before the war, Greta has seen her fortunes rise thanks to her brother’s entrepreneurship. She arrives at West Egg to find Daisy and Tom Buchanan also summering at the mansion, along with Nick Carraway and Jordan Baker.
But when one of their guests is murdered, Greta turns sleuth as the veil is lifted on Gatsby’s household and its inhabitants, including its staff.
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Enigma
by Runyx
An unforgettable romance set in a dark academia world of secret societies, lush suspense and sizzling sensuality.
Salem Salazar comes to Mortimer University to get to the bottom of her sister's mysterious death. There, she discovers there have been a lot more unexplained deaths on the campus. Her search leads her down a dark and dangerous path to a secret society–and to someone else investigating a murder named Caz.
Secret forces are at play in Mortimer and no one is safe. As Salem tries to go under the radar and Caz tries to block her path, they both end up in the crossfire of a powerful, secret society. They are forced to work together to discover the truth or risk losing their lives.
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The Book Club for Troublesome Women
by Marie Bostwick
A book club turned sisterhood will hold fast amid the turmoil of a rapidly changing world and alter the course of each of their lives.
In suburban Virginia of the 1960s, housewives Margaret Ryan, Viv Buschetti, and Bitsy Cobb appear to have it all. The fact that "all" doesn't feel like enough leaves them feeling confused and guilty, certain the fault must lie with them. Things begin to change when they form a book club with Charlotte Gustafson--the eccentric and artsy "new neighbor" from Manhattan--and read Betty Friedan's just-released book, The Feminine Mystique. Controversial and groundbreaking, the book strikes a chord with the women, helping them realize that they aren’t alone in their dissatisfaction.
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When the Wolf Comes Home
by Nat Cassidy
What starts as an attempt to help a young runaway turns into a nightmare as a woman and a boy run from a violent father.
On one fateful night, struggling actress Jess finds a five-year-old boy hiding in the bushes outside her apartment. Then, after a bloody encounter with the boy’s father, the two find themselves on the run. As they desperately evade the increasingly dangerous father, horrifying incidents of butchery follow them.
And when the wolf finally comes home, none will be spared.
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How to Get Along with Anyone: The Playbook for Predicting and Preventing Conflict at Work and at Home
by John Eliot
Defuse any heated conflict by learning about the five conflict styles and how to resolve even the most sensitive dispute with this must-read guide.
The average American worker spends 156 hours a year engaged in the kind of moderate to intense workplace conflict. Managers spend twenty-six percent of their time addressing and resolving conflicts on their team. But what if it didn’t need to be like this? What if there was a way to spend less time in conflict and more time on the things that really matter?
If you can predict how someone will behave in a given circumstance, you can formulate a game plan. The secret is knowing which of the five patterns someone is wired to use when smacked by a stressor. How to Get Along with Anyone is a pragmatic, hands-on book to help you realize your own conflict type and navigate the arguments that emerge in day-to-day life. You’ll also learn the formula for identifying your coworkers’ and loved ones’ conflict styles and how to use this information to foster better communication and more effective collaboration.
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Who Deserves Your Love: How to Create Boundaries to Start, Strengthen, or End Any Relationship
by K.C. Davis
An authoritative yet gentle approach to navigating the universal desire for healthy and workable relationships, whether romantic, familiar, or platonic.
How do you navigate a relationship where someone’s best efforts are hurting you? When should you step away? In writing that is both plainspoken and powerful, therapist K.C. Davis explains how vulnerability, trauma, and personal history can be both the cause of and the solution to relationship struggles.Who Deserves You Love outlines specific tools to help you distinguish mistreatment from abuse, define your own values, and emotionally regulate in difficult situations.
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Sucker Punch: Essays
by Scaachi Koul
An original and hilarious collection of essays reckoning with the issues of race, body image, love, friendship, and growing up the daughter of immigrants.
When the time came to start writing her next book, Scaachi assumed she’d be sharing about her elaborate four-day wedding, settling down to domestic bliss, and continuing her never-ending arguments with her parents. Instead, the Covid pandemic hit, Scaachi’s marriage fell apart, she lost her job, and her mother was diagnosed with cancer.
Sucker Punch is about what happens when the life you thought you’d be living radically changes course, and you have to start forging a new path forward. Scaachi employs her signature humor and fierce intelligence to examine the fights she’s had—with her parents, her ex-husband, her friends, online strangers, and herself—in an attempt to understand when a fight is worth having, and when it's better to walk away.
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Care and Feeding: A Memoir
by Laurie Woolever
In this moving, hilarious, and insightful memoir, Laurie Woolever traces her path from a small-town childhood to working at revered restaurants and food publications.
Laurie Woolever’s life is a frequently chaotic, often pleasurable buffet of bad decisions. Acerbic and wryly self-deprecating, Laurie attempts to carve her own space as a woman in this world that is by turns toxic and intoxicating. She seeks to try it all—from a seedy Atlantic City strip club to the Park Hyatt Tokyo, from a hippie vegetarian co-op to the legendary El Bulli—while balancing her consuming work with her sometimes ambivalent relationship to marriage and motherhood.
As the food world careens toward an overdue reckoning and Laurie’s famous mentors face their own high-profile descents, she is confronted with the questions of where she belongs and how to hold on to the work that she truly values: care and feeding.
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The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball
by John W. Miller
The first major biography of legendary Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver—who has been described as “the Copernicus of baseball” and “the grandfather of the modern game.”
History’s feistiest and most colorful manager Earl Weaver transformed the sport of baseball by collecting and analyzing data in visionary ways, ultimately winning more games than anybody else during his time running the Orioles from 1968–1982. Weaver invented new ways of building baseball teams–by prioritizing on-base average, elite defense, and strike throwing–and, as the first manager to use a modern radar gun, pioneered the use of analytical data.
Beyond being a great baseball mind, Weaver was a rare baseball character. Major League Baseball is show business, and Weaver understood how much of his job was entertainment. His outbursts offered players cathartic relief from their own frustration, signaled his concern for the team, and fired up fans. Belligerent, genius, infamous—The Last Manager tells the story of one man who left his mark on the game for generations.
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Warrior to Civilian: The Field Manual for the Hero's Journey
by Robert Sarver
A compassionate, practical guidebook for veterans transitioning from active duty to civilian life and for the loved ones supporting their journey.
Each year, more than 200,000 new veterans transition out of active duty. Each day, approximately 22 veterans commit suicide, and even more are struggling with PTSD, traumatic brain injury (TBI), substance abuse, homelessness, and many, many other difficulties. While there are many books written by and for veterans, only a small selection of those address the transition to civilian life. Warrior to Civilian covers a range of topics, from the practical—finding a job, reintegrating into family life—to the more challenging topics, like dealing with loss, and finding new purpose in life. This well-curated resource incorporates stories, insights, and observations from veterans and their partners, as well as evidence-based advice from health professionals and experts who work closely with veterans.
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