Midlife Private Parts: Revealing Essays that Will Change the Way You Think About Age
Publication Date: 06/24/2025
Midlife Private Parts is a soulful and revealing collection of essays that explore the many facets of this transformative time in life. Each story sheds light, with humanity and good humor, on what it really feels like to move through the world as a midlife woman and beyond. Whether it’s…
crushed: the boys that never liked me back
Publication Date: 06/10/2025
In this real life rom-com, Kiersten Lyons asks the universal “Why is it that the boy (or job or dream or every single life plan you’ve ever had) never likes you back?” only to uncover answers she never saw coming. While tying the bows on her wedding invitations, Kiersten’s fiancé…
Beat the Bots: A Writer’s Guide to Surviving and Thriving in the Age of AI
Publication Date: 06/03/2025
Beat the Bots offers science-based creativity techniques that guide you through the writing process to unlock your imagination and create compelling stories that resonate with emotional truth in ways AI can’t match. Even though artificial intelligence is based on a technology called “machine learning,” computers can’t learn to be creative—but…
I Knew a Man Who Knew Brahms
Publication Date: 05/27/2025
A vivid personal account of a Golden Age in classical music—the second half of the 20th century—providing a rare, behind-the-scenes view of the inner workings of a top symphony orchestra. Nancy Shear was only fifteen when she began sneaking into Philadelphia Orchestra concerts through the stage door, and seventeen when…
Transplants
Publication Date: 05/13/2025
A harrowing and poignant novel following two young women in pursuit of kinship and self-discovery who yearn to survive in a world that doesn’t know where either of them belong. On a university campus in rural Qixian, Lin and Liz make an improbable pair: Lin, a Chinese student closer to…
Rory Land: The Up-and-Down World of Golf’s Global Icon
Publication Date: 05/13/2025
RORY LAND is the unabashed story of Rory McIlroy, golf’s most compelling icon, the caring but conflicted soul (and lightning rod!) from a troubled Irish homeland whose swing is so immaculate it should be etched in stained glass. Timothy M. Gay writes that four-time major champion Rory McIlroy is “golf’s…
Annapurna
Publication Date: 05/06/2025
During a treacherous winter trek to the basecamp of Annapurna, one woman is forced to confront the events leading up to her best friend’s tragic death twenty years earlier as well as the nature of their friendship, the meaning of love, and the unexpected consequences of what is spoken—and what…
Don’t You Want Me
Publication Date: 04/29/2025
After discovering a magical ability to travel through time, Lisa Williams uses her newfound freedom to return to her youth and redo her past to meet her one true love with humorous, heart-warming, and sometimes disastrous results. It’s 2008 and Lisa Williams is lonely and desperate for love as she…
What Happened to Ellen? An American Miscarriage of Justice
Publication Date: 04/22/2025
How could this have happened in the United States? Is it even humanly possible that this young woman could have so brutally and with such unimaginable Herculean force fatally stabbed herself more than twenty times? Beautiful, accomplished, and beloved, Ellen Greenberg was a vivacious and affectionate teacher of young children…
Veggie Smarts: A Doctor and Farmer Grows and Savors Eight Families of Vegetables
Publication Date: 04/22/2025
A nerdy farmer—and doctor with expertise in nutrition—provides insight into how best to prepare and savor vegetables while recounting his journey in building an organic vegetable farm and discovering the family that farmed the same land some 200 years ago. Dr. Michael Compton shares his passionate approach to savoring vegetables…