New Non-Fiction
August 2026
New Arrivals
Protect Your Energy: A Gentle Guide to Nurture Your Nervous System, Cultivate Rest, and Honor Your Needs by Zahabiyah A. Yamasaki
Protect Your Energy: A Gentle Guide to Nurture Your Nervous System, Cultivate Rest, and Honor Your Needs
by Zahabiyah A. Yamasaki

Make vital shifts in how you use your energyand how you restby understanding your nervous system through gentle guidance and practices. Protect Your Energy offers reflections to help us understand both where we are and where we want to go, what drains our energy, how to set and hold supportive boundaries, and much more.
Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith by J. D. Vance
Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith
by J. D. Vance

Narrated by the Vice President himself--an intimate account of why the bestselling author of Hillbilly Elegy JD Vance strayed from the Christianity of his youth and what led him back to faith.Communion is a spiritual exploration of what it means to be a Christian in all the seasons of life JD Vance has experienced--as a child, a young man, a husband, a father, and a leader.Picking up in some ways where Hillbilly Elegy left off, Communion recounts how Vance's pursuit of material privileges ultimately led him into a secular wilderness.Communion reveals how Vance regained his faith and discusses his conversion to Catholicism, how his faith guides his work in public life, and how it shapes his thoughts about the future.
Garden for Life: Strategies for Easier, Greener, More Joyful Gardening as We Age by Rhonda Fleming Hayes
Garden for Life: Strategies for Easier, Greener, More Joyful Gardening as We Age
by Rhonda Fleming Hayes

From award-winning writer and photographer Rhonda Fleming Hayes comes the perfect guide to help you evaluate, redesign, and right-size your garden space as you age--to make gardening easier, more sustainable, and perennially fun In Garden for Life, Rhonda Fleming Hayes brings a lifetime of gardening experience, research-based advice, and collective wisdom to older gardeners who are looking for inspiration and practical strategies. 
The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning by Robert Wright
The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning
by Robert Wright

From bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Robert Wright comes a sweeping new view of artificial intelligence--as an evolutionary force that will pose deep political and spiritual challenges and could, in the process, give our species a unifying sense of purpose. The God Test is the first book to capture the power behind the AI revolution--to clearly explain the breakthroughs that sparked the current wave of advance and compellingly show why this wave will grow in magnitude and meaning. Written by one of our foremost public intellectuals, and informed by his decades of chronicling the digital age, the book argues that we are about to witness the most abruptly dramatic social transformation in the history of our species. 
Your Ocd Will Hate This Book: A Proven System to Overcome Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Take Back Your Life by Nathan Peterson
Your Ocd Will Hate This Book: A Proven System to Overcome Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Take Back Your Life
by Nathan Peterson

 Obsessive-compulsive disorder is one of the most common, and debilitating, mental disorders. Though popular media tends to focus on the condition's zany quirks, OCD manifests in a wide variety of ways, many of which are hidden from view and utterly destructive. Left unchecked, this disease wreaks havoc on lives. But there is an effective treatment. Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) involves exposure to OCD triggers in a safe environment for increasingly long durations. Nathan Peterson, a clinician who specializes in using ERP to treat OCD, has already helped hundreds of thousands of followers regain control over their lives. Here, he guides readers through the magic of ERP and gives them a framework to maintain and build upon the gains they have made. 
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