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A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' ""Love Song to the Nation"" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about...

In The 50th Law, hip hop and pop culture icon 50 Cent (aka Curtis Jackson) joins forces with Robert Greene, bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power, to write a “bible” for success in life and work based on a single principle: fear nothing. With stories from 50 Cent's life on the streets...

From actor Cary Elwes, who played the iconic role of Westley in The Princess Bride, comes a first-person account and behind-the-scenes look at the making of the cult classic film filled with never-before-told stories and interviews with costars Robin Wright, Wallace Shawn, Billy Crystal...

Something has been going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and are afraid to speak honestly. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising—on campus as well as nationally. How did...

It ain’t easy getting your shit together, but this book is the solution. And Tabitha Brown says, “you can trust him.” MJ Harris has got a lot of “best friends”—over five million to be exact. His hilarious, straightforward, raw advice has made him the go-to person across social media...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Now fully revised and updated, this evidence-based, user-friendly guide presents a 30-day digital detox plan that will help you set boundaries with your phone and live a more joyful and fulfilling life. “If you are a human being and you own a smartphone, you need this...

The groundbreaking bestseller from iconic behavioral psychologist Dan Ariely, now the inspiration for the Fall 2023 NBC show The Irrational “A marvelous book that is both thought provoking and highly entertaining, ranging from the power of placebos to the pleasures of Pepsi. Ariely unmasks...

A New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book Named one of the Best Books of the Year by TIME and NPR “Searing… rigorously researched but never stuffy… Gilbert has compiled perhaps the first comprehensive examination of turn-of-the-millennium mainstream, cool-kid trends and...

One of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year Winner of the James Beard Award Author of #1 New York Times Bestsellers In Defense of Food and Food Rules What should we have for dinner? Ten years ago, Michael Pollan confronted us with this seemingly simple question and, with...

The legendary bestseller that encouraged millions of readers to look at the hidden side of everything Which is more dangerous: a gun or a swimming pool? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? What do real estate agents and the KKK have in common? These may not sound like typical...

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER Acclaimed reporter Taylor Lorenz, founder of User Magazine and host of the Power User podcast, presents an “enlightening history” (Associated Press) of the internet—revealing how online influence and the creators who amass it have reshaped our world, online and off...

Mr Punch Presents: It’s a Wonderful Life, the irresistibly heart-warming story of George Bailey, who is prevented from committing suicide by the elderly angel Clarence....

First published in 1966, Hell’s Angels is Thompson’s up-close and personal look at the infamous motorcycle gang during the time when its moniker was most feared....

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice · A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2025 · A People Best Book of November 2025 · An NPR Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2025 A revealing exploration of a quarter century of cultural stagnation, examining the commercial and...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A fascinating and enlightening deep dive into the infamous Disney Adult community from the woman behind the popular website The Disney Food Blog. Disney Adults are grown-ups who derive singular, almost obsessive, joy from all things Disney. They devote countless...

For over 40 years, Carlos Castaneda’s The Teachings of Don Juan has inspired audiences to expand their world view beyond traditional Western forms....

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A kaleidoscopic history of the Grateful Dead that explores the American counterculture through the life of iconoclastic frontman Jerry Garcia, and his merry band “By writing this book, Jim Newton informs the rest of the world what Deadheads have known for years: that...

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self—a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? Not long ago, the celebrated activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein had just such an experience....

In the vein of Lebowitz's acclaimed Netflix limited series, Pretend It's a City—The Fran Lebowitz Reader brings together two of the famed author's bestsellers, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies. In "elegant, finely honed prose" (The Washington Post Book World), Lebowitz limns the...

It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system–a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded....

Ken Ivy pulls a square's coat on the unwritten rules that took him from the ghetto streets to the executive suites. Ken's lessons will serve any person in any interaction....

A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book A GoodReads Reader's Choice In One Summer Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most beloved nonfiction writers, transports readers on a journey back to one amazing season in American life. The summer of 1927 began with one of the signature events of the...

“How many women cry when angry because we've held it in for so long? How many discover that anger turned inward is depression? Soraya Chemaly’s Rage Becomes Her will be good for women, and for the future of this country. After all, women have a lot to be angry about.” (Gloria Steinem) A...

American Cosmic examines the mechanisms at work behind the thriving belief system in extraterrestrial life, a system that is changing and even supplanting traditional religions....

An instant New York Times Bestseller! The new uplifting book from Matt Haig, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library, for anyone in search of hope, looking for a path to a more meaningful life, or in need of a little encouragement. Named by The Washington Post as one of...

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice · A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2025 · A People Best Book of November 2025 · An NPR Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2025 A revealing exploration of a quarter century of cultural stagnation, examining the commercial and...

"A rollicking tale of how Mattel spied, copied, and stole its way to market dominance, then fought with military intensity to compel us to buy more and more." —The New York Times The secret history of Barbie and what Mattel has done to keep her on top. For nearly seven decades, Mattel billed...

The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City offers a new look at over a century of New York’s history of Yiddish popular culture. Henry H. Sapoznik—a five-time Grammy-nominated performer/producer and Peabody Award-winning co-producer of NPR’s Yiddish Radio Project—tells the story in chapters on theater, music, architecture, crime, Blacks and Jews, restaurants, real estate, and journalism.

All three series of the award-winning topical panel show from 2025 Andy Zaltzman returns for a triple helping of comic quizzing, as he serves up a satirical smorgasbord of choice news morsels for his esteemed panellists to feast on. Making short work of them are some of the biggest names in...

Shows how Amanita microdoses offered help and healing for a broad range of conditions, including hormonal dysfunction, allergies, gingivitis, heartburn, eczema, psoriasis, depression, epilepsy, hypertension, insomnia, and migraine Reveals how Amanita microdoses are effective for pain...

Across Nigeria and Africa, stories of ritual money, human sacrifice, mysterious disappearances, and sudden wealth continue to dominate public imagination. The myth of blood money remains one of Africa’s most terrifying and influential beliefs. But what is real, and what is folklore?Yet beneath the fear lies a complex mix of psychology, economics, culture, crime, religion, and misinformation. In Blood Money & Ritual Money, Frederick Amakom dismantles the myth with clarity and evidence through powerful analysis and cultural insight. From Yahoo Plus culture to Prosperity Gospel teachings, ...

Break free from technology and rediscover the joys of life with this ultimate guide featuring 101 creative ideas to fix your tech obsession. In today’s world, we’re constantly glued to our phones, checking social media, emails, and even the weather. But what if you could reduce stress...

During the last few years I have written a number of books consisting of “cameos,” or profiles, of great thinkers, artists, and writers of various peoples: Italians, Brits, Russians, Jews, and American poets. I decided it was finally time to take on the Germans, specifically those in the German literary tradition. This runs from Goethe to Bernhard Schlink, in between discussing the work of writers such as Heine, Nietzsche, Rilke, Hesse, Brecht and a few others in that illustrious category. Why am I doing this? I guess I believe that these folks have something to teach us in terms of how...

YOU WERE RIGHT TO FEEL EMPTY AFTER THAT “MASTERPIECE.” Why does “serious” art so often leave us drained instead of nourished? What if that hollow feeling isn’t a personal failing, but the symptom of a cultural system designed to equate pain with profundity? Welcome to the Cathedral of Suffering. We have been trained, from our first children’s movie to our final graduate seminar, that the only stories worth taking seriously are stories of trauma, collapse, and ruin. This is not an accident. It is a system. In The Suffering Canon, the evidence is laid bare: The Data: 71% of major ...

If you’re worried that AI is moving faster than society can understand… you’re not alone. Millions of people are asking questions few feel safe saying out loud: “Will my skills still matter?” “What will happen to my work?” “How do I prepare for a future arriving this fast?” Here’s the part no one tells you: The danger isn’t AI. The danger is entering the AI era unprepared. What happens before the machines decide? Before algorithms shape economies. Before AGI influences institutions. Before intelligent systems are woven into every decision we make? We decide. And what ...