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March 11, 2026
New Adult Non-Fiction
Be Your Own Bestie: A No-Nonsense Guide to Changing the Way You Treat Yourself by Misha Brown
Be Your Own Bestie: A No-Nonsense Guide to Changing the Way You Treat Yourself
by Misha Brown

Hey, Bestie! Start loving yourself radically with the 4-step SASS Method that literally anyone can do--from social media star Misha Brown. You deserve happiness. You deserve hope. And you deserve a sassy best friend who can help you learn not to settle for less. It's time to start loving yourself radically. And Misha Brown--you may know him as @yourbestiemisha--is here to guide you along your journey of self-discovery, accountability, and most importantly, self-love. With his no-nonsense (but always loving) approach, Misha shares stories from his own life, encounters with others, and the wisdom gleaned from them to help you release the patterns, relationships, and beliefs that have kept you from stepping into your full fabulousness. With equal parts hilarity and heart, Misha's S.A.S.S. Method to glowing up your life consists of: S - Self-reflection: Turn your focus inward to push away what's been holding you back A - Affirmations: Reshape the way you speak to and about yourself S - Standing your ground: Set boundaries and stop apologizing S - Sculpting the life you want: Take bold steps toward your own happily ever after No matter where you are today, now is the time to begin showing up for yourself as your own best friend. Because you deserve it, bestie!
How to Art: Bringing a Fancy Subject Down to Earth by Kate Bryan
How to Art: Bringing a Fancy Subject Down to Earth
by Kate Bryan

A funny, inviting, full-color book about art for people who don't know about art--featuring new artworks by David Shrigley.--Provided by publisher.
Eat Your Ice Cream: Six Simple Rules for a Long and Healthy Life by Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Eat Your Ice Cream: Six Simple Rules for a Long and Healthy Life
by Ezekiel J. Emanuel

"Every day brings a torrent of articles, videos, and podcasts about health and longevity. The "Wellness Industrial Complex" offers conflicting advice and promises us more time to enjoy in the future but it sure is demanding a lot of time right now. In Eat Your Ice Cream, renowned health expert Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel argues that life is not a competition to live the longest, and that "wellness" shouldn't be difficult; it should be an invisible part of one's lifestyle that yields maximum health benefits with the least work. Dr. Emanuel cuts through the noise with wit and good humor, giving readers just what they need: simple, high-impact, evidence-based guidelines to issues such as food and drink, exercise, sleep, mental acuity, and social engagement. Pairing common sense with uncommon wisdom based on his decades of expertise and experience, Dr. Emanuel helps readers decide which lifestyle changes are worth making and how to best implement them."
How to Be a Rich Old Lady: Your Guide to Easy Investing, Building Wealth, and Creating the Wild, Beautiful Life You Want by Amanda Holden
How to Be a Rich Old Lady: Your Guide to Easy Investing, Building Wealth, and Creating the Wild, Beautiful Life You Want
by Amanda Holden

A life-changing path to the financial freedom we all deserve: How to Be a Rich Old Lady is filled with humor, heart, and real-world perspective. Amanda Holden spent years working in investment management, where she saw exactly who gets access to the power, ease, and opportunity money can bring--and it wasn't people like her friends. She also saw how the financial system is designed to feel exclusive and confusing, and how it blames individuals for economic problems they didn't create. So, Amanda left her finance job to launch Invested Development, a financial education company where she has taught more than twenty-five thousand students how to invest with radical clarity, accessibility, and joy. Here, all her expertise is packed into a guide that won't feel like getting cornered by a crypto bro. Instead, it reads like a text from your smartest friend: Let's figure out money, so we can stop thinking about money. Because this practice isn't just about planning for your wild and glorious future--it's about the relief of knowing you're doing everything you can right now. In these pages, you will: Set up a fully automated investing strategy--so you can move on with your life. Use hands-on tools and worksheets to guide you to financial independence. Learn about investing in a way that is truly memorable. Demystify retirement accounts and tax rules Learn who to trust in the finance world--and who to avoid. Master how to research, buy, and track the right investments for you Explore what it means to live a wild, beautiful life beyond Roth IRAs. How to Be a Rich Old Lady is a step-by-step road map to financial freedom. It's not just about numbers on a spreadsheet but building a life that feels secure enough to dream into. Maybe your Rich Old Lady is wearing belly chains at the beach, tanned and wrinkly and totally unbothered. Maybe she's befriending the birds at her cozy forest cabin. Maybe she's leaving $500 tips on her diner coffee. Whatever your vision, this approachable guide to investing and wealth-building will help you build a plan to greet her with confidence, security, and genuine hope for tomorrow.
Managerial Accounting for Dummies by Mark P. Holtzman
Managerial Accounting for Dummies
by Mark P. Holtzman

An easy-to-understand guide to making informed and effective business decisions. With clear explanations and real-life examples, Managerial Accounting For Dummies gives you the basic concepts, terminology, and methods you need to fully grasp this important area of business, anywhere. You'll know how to identify, measure, analyze, interpret, and communicate the data that drives decision making in every industry. Understand and manage costs, plan, budget, and use these accounting skills for business evaluation and control. This approachable guide covers all the content in a typical managerial accounting course, making it perfect for students preparing for accounting careers. Professionals looking for a refresher will also benefit from this straightforward resource. Inside: Get clear descriptions of managerial accounting techniques and processes Learn how to collect, report, and analyze financial data to drive effective business decisions Discover how managerial accounting can improve sustainability and reduce risk Managerial Accounting For Dummies, 2nd Edition provides comprehensive information on global strategic management, basic data analysis techniques, and beyond--you'll understand all parts of the managerial accounting process and why it matters with this accessible resource.
Heal Faster: Unlock Your Body's Rapid Recovery Reflex by Victoria Maizes
Heal Faster: Unlock Your Body's Rapid Recovery Reflex
by Victoria Maizes

Discover how to harness your body's innate healing mechanisms to recover faster and more completely from virtually any condition, from common colds to chronic disease, by the author of Be Fruitful and cohost of the Body of Wonder podcast, and in collaboration with the AARP. What if your body already has all the healing tools it needs--and you just need to learn how to activate them? In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Victoria Maizes, a pioneer of integrative medicine, reveals the remarkable power of what she calls the rapid recovery reflex--your body's built-in ability to restore balance and heal from illness, injury, and stress. Drawing on forty years of medical experience and cutting-edge research, Dr. Maizes shows that complete recovery is possible for a wide range of conditions when you know how to support your body's natural healing processes. From short-term ailments--like colds and sprains--to chronic conditions--like asthma and diabetes--to recovering from surgery, this book offers evidence-based strategies to heal faster and more completely.
We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America by Norah O'Donnell
We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America
by Norah O'Donnell

Over a decades-long, distinguished career, award-winning journalist Norah O'Donnell has made it her mission to shed light on untold wom­en's stories. Now, in honor of America's 250th birthday, O'Donnell focuses that passion on the American heroines who helped change the course of history. We the Women presents a fresh look at American his­tory through the eyes of women, introducing us to inspiring patriots who demanded that the country live up to the prom­ises made 250 years ago in the Declaration of Independence: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Since the signing of that document, the pressing question from women has been: Why don't those unalienable rights apply to us? Through extensive research and interviews, as well as historical documents and old photos, O'Donnell curates a compelling portrait of these fierce fighters for freedom. From Mary Katherine Goddard, who printed the first signed Declaration of Independence, to the Forten family women, who were active in the abolition and suffrage movements and were considered the Black Founders of Philadelphia, to the first women who served in the armed forces even before they had the right to vote, O'Donnell brings these extraordinary women together for the first time, and in doing so writes the American story anew.
Eat Yourself Healthy: Food to Change Your Life [American Measurements] by Jamie Oliver
Eat Yourself Healthy: Food to Change Your Life [American Measurements]
by Jamie Oliver

For more than two decades, Jamie Oliver has been leading the charge on a global food revolution, aiming to improve everyone's health and happiness through food. Now, in response to the changing food environment and industry that is working against us, Jamie puts to use his nutrition diploma and chef experience to help us wrestle back control and build a celebratory relationship with good food, embracing its power to make us healthier and happier. In [this book], he's back with 120 ... recipes sure to energize, satisfy, and nourish. Jamie proves that healthy eating can be joyful, generous, and abundant: this is all about what you can have, not what you can't. Teamed with 50 helpful healthy hacks and a nutrition-packed 2-week meal plan to kickstart your health journey, it's never been easier to make choices that support your well-being.
Modern Machine Quilting, Second Edition: Finish Your Quilts Creatively on Your Home Machine; Revised & Expanded by Catherine Redford
Modern Machine Quilting, Second Edition: Finish Your Quilts Creatively on Your Home Machine; Revised & Expanded
by Catherine Redford

Inside this new edition of Modern Machine Quilting, readers will find a comprehensive overview of quilting and finishing techniques. No more stacked-up quilt tops and no need to pay to have your quilt finished! Learn how to simply and beautifully quilt your projects on your home sewing machine.
All about Allergies: Everything You Need to Know about Asthma, Food Allergies, Hay Fever, and More by MD Rubin, Zachary
All about Allergies: Everything You Need to Know about Asthma, Food Allergies, Hay Fever, and More
by MD Rubin, Zachary

From viral social media sensation Dr. Zachary Rubin, an in-depth look at both common and surprising allergies, spotlighting patient stories, the history and science behind allergies, common myths, treatment options, and more Millions of people suffer from various allergic diseases. They're some of the most common but widely misunderstood afflictions today, and Dr. Rubin has made it his mission to pull back the curtain and help everyday people understand their allergies and find ways to feel better. In All About Allergies, Dr. Rubin explores and explains dozens of allergies and diseases and provides actionable treatment options and information. Sections on the history of allergies, asthma, contact dermatitis, sinusitis, food allergies, anaphylaxis, medication allergies, and more pair with treatment info on medications, immunotherapy, and biologics to equip people with the tools they need to tackle their allergies. Grounded by expert research and propelled by patient stories, science, history, and, of course, Dr. Rubin's engaging voice, All About Allergies is the ultimate resource for anyone who's ever felt in the dark about their health.
The Official We Do Not Care Club Handbook: A Hot-Mess Guide for Women in Perimenopause, Menopause, and Beyond Who Are Over It by Melani Sanders
The Official We Do Not Care Club Handbook: A Hot-Mess Guide for Women in Perimenopause, Menopause, and Beyond Who Are Over It
by Melani Sanders

Hop aboard the Hot Mess Express, Sisters, and welcome to the club. Do you wake up with night sweats at 3:26 a.m., overstimulated, mad at anything breathing, and ready to put the world on notice? Do you forget the words you are saying as you are saying them? If you have a she-shed and no longer care about clothes that fit or cellulite on your legs (legs is legs ), then welcome to the club--the We Do Not Care Club (WDNC). You're now a card-carrying member with an exclusive invite to the big­gest hormonal party in town. This club is for all of our Sisters in perimenopause, menopause, and post­menopause who are over it. Here is a list* of things We Do Not Care about today: Shaving our legs. That's on our summer bucket list. Winter is here. Plucking our chin hair. If we can't see it, neither can you. Wearing bras. Be happy we have a shirt on. Wearing PJs all day. Clothes is clothes. Being on time. Be happy that I showed up -- I don't even want to be here. Cancelled plans. We didn't want to go anywhere anyway. If you're cold. Don't even think about touching that thermostat. Melani Sanders, founding member of the WDNC, is here to tell you that it's okay not to care. You're not alone. This book is your life raft. Let's hold on for dear life--and get through this together.
Not Your Founding Father: How a Nonbinary Minister Became America's Most Radical Revolutionary by Nina Sankovitch
Not Your Founding Father: How a Nonbinary Minister Became America's Most Radical Revolutionary
by Nina Sankovitch

A thrilling celebration of a forgotten early American renegade, Not Your Founding Father reconsiders just how radical the American experiment could have been. Early in the morning of October 9, 1776--in the small farming community of Cumberland, Rhode Island, in a house surrounded by cherry trees--twenty-three-year-old Jemima Wilkinson died, and the Public Universal Friend was born. Old Cherry Wilkinson's children had already gained a reputation for scandal. Two of his boys had been dismissed from the local Quaker meeting for joining the colonial militia, and one of the girls was expelled for having a baby out of wedlock. Now, here was another Wilkinson child, riding about the countryside, claiming to be a genderless messenger of God. Yet something about the Public Universal Friend set war-ravaged New England ablaze. The young minister seemed to embody the possibilities offered by the new nation, especially the right to total self-determination. To authorities, however, the minister was the devil in petticoats, a threat to the men who sought to keep America's power for themselves. And so the Public Universal Friend ventured west to create an Eden on the frontier, a place where everyone would have the right to not only life, liberty, and the pursuit happiness, but also peace and shared prosperity. But into every Eden comes a snake. And soon, financial scams, contested wills, adultery, plagiarism, allegations of murder, and murmurs of another war with England would threaten to destroy this new American utopia.
New DVDs
Hamnet

"William Shakespeare falls for the free-spirited Agnes. Their whirlwind romance leads to marriage and three children, but as Will's theatrical ambitions draw him to London, Agnes remains behind to manage the household. When tragedy strikes, their bond is deeply tested--but through grief and resilience, their journey inspires the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet."
Now You See Me: Now You Don't

The Four Horsemen have returned -- to unite with a new generation of illusionists for their most global, high-stakes adventure yet. Their mission: Expose the corruption of Veronika Vanderberg, a powerful diamond heiress with ties to arms dealers, traffickers, and warlords. Aided by legendary magician, Thaddeus, the two teams must overcome their differences to try and defeat their cunning and dangerous adversary, in this action-comedy filled with the franchise's signature twists and turns -- and some of the most thrilling illusions ever captured on film.
Running Man 

In a near-future society, The Running Man is the top-rated show on television a deadly competition where contestants, known as Runners, must survive 30 days while being hunted by professional assassins, with every move broadcast to a bloodthirsty public and each day bringing a greater cash reward. Desperate to save his sick daughter, working-class Ben Richards is convinced by the show's charming but ruthless producer, Dan Killian, to enter the game as a last resort. But Ben's defiance, instincts, and grit turn him into an unexpected fan favorite and a threat to the entire system. As ratings skyrocket, so does the danger, and Ben must outwit not just the Hunters, but a nation addicted to watching him fall.
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