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For readers of Stanley Tucci and Ruth Reichl and fans of award-winning actor-turned-author Tony Shalhoub (Big Night, Monk, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), comes a delightful narrative of nostalgic remembrances and recollections about gathering at the family table.We Thought Theyd Never Leave marks the literary debut of Tony Shalhoub, the beloved actor who, for the first time, has gathered delightful stories, memories, and recipes to create this timely, feel-good collection. Written with his daughter, Josie Adams, the book is a humorous and heartfelt portrait of place, family, and food. At its center is the annual Shalhoub summer reunion in Door County, Wisconsina tradition that pulls ten siblings, their children, and their childrens children back to the same stretch of land, carrying decades of shared history with them. Through rich vignettes drawn from his parents, his siblings, and the many summers spent crowded around long tables, Tony reflects on the meals, mishaps, and small moments that link one generation to the nextfrom his childhood in a lively Lebanese-American household in Green Bay to the beautiful, chaotic gatherings that continue today. Along the way, he includes several family recipes that have stood the test of time. Part memoir and part family-historyfull of games, gatherings, and Shalhoub lore, plus twenty recipesWe Thought Theyd Never Leave is a love letter to food, family, tradition, and the kind of loud, affectionate, ever-growing family reunion that somehow always makes room for one more at the table.

A plucky writer of spells must team up with a frustratingly charming magician to uncover the secrets of a dangerous grimoireand maybe open her heart in the processin this light academia young adult romantasy perfect for fans of Margaret Rogerson.No one is allowed past the gargoyles guarding the doors of Thistledown Library. Spellwright Fia Ives should knowfor months shes hoped to be admitted inside to find a magic powerful enough to locate her late mothers spellbook. One midnight, she finally breaks in, only to discover three mysterious figures already searching the forbidden stacks.When the library announces the theft of a dangerous grimoire, suspicion falls on Fia. The only way to clear her name is to root out the thieves she spied that night. However, solving a magical theft isnt easy while running her inherited spellshop alone. So Fia hires the first person who applies to helpthe insufferably charming Penbrook Madbury, who is as sleepy as a cat and just as stubborn. Fia isnt sure she can trust him with her reckless plan (let alone her beloved shop), but theres something about the secretive magician that tempts her to try.As a strange magic curls through town, Fia must risk her own heart to unravel a string of curses before they claim both her and Penbrook. And if some of those curses require kisses to break them, well, thats just the whimsy of magic.

A searing account of the ways in which mental health culture distorts our understanding of mental illness, abandons the severely ill, and threatens the lives of millions who desperately need care.Mental health culture in the 21st century is broken. After decades of influence from the anti-psychiatry movement, our conception of mental illness has become hopelessly romanticized, distorted by fictional depictions of madness that minimize the harms of debilitating conditions. Its become fashionable to insist that mental illness is socially constructed, politically imposed, or secretly empowering. But these claims are dishonest and destructive. Psychosis is not creativity; delusion is not just another way of knowing; schizophrenia is not a sane response to an insane world. Mental illnesses are real, biological conditions that cause profound torment and destroy lives. Treating them as metaphors or identities does not liberate the afflicted. It condemns them. With All in Your Head, Fredrik deBoer offers a powerful and long-overdue critique of modern mental health culture. He shows how deinstitutionalization, a well-intended but ultimately doomed corrective to psychiatrys early abuses, collapsed into a humanitarian disaster, leaving the severely mentally ill to cycle through homelessness, incarceration, and neglect. More recently, the gentrification of disability has turned mental illness into social currency, even as those with the most disabling conditions deteriorate on the streets. The digital age has only intensified this crisis, spreading implausible self-diagnoses and turning rare disorders into identity theater, while the truly ill are left out of the conversation. Bracing and rigorously argued, All in Your Head is a call for an honest reckoning. Caring for people with mental illness requires material support, institutional capacity, and medical intervention. Psychiatry, despite its flaws, remains the only lifeline for millions. To abandon it is to abandon the most vulnerable among us.

Have a Rock and Roll Party with this incredible chronicle of KISSs first platinum studio album and one of the greatest rock records in history.In 1976, Gene, Paul, Ace, and Peter stomped their platform heels into the mainstream with Destroyer, which catapulted them to superstardom. This official, authorized retrospective takes you behind the scenes at the recording sessions and backstage at the mind-blowing tour that followed. It offers eye-opening insights into the chaos in the studio, how each of the songs developed, creating the iconic cover design, and more. It features exclusive new interviews, teems with deep-dive details, and comes jam-packed with hundreds of photos, some never before published. Comprehensive tour information covers set lists, dates, and venues, and a complete timeline of making the seminal record and the Destroyer Tour also features world affairs and other cultural events, putting the bands milestones in meaningful context. So paint your face, stick out your tongue, and "Shout It Out Loud" with this mind-blowing must-have showcase of one of the most influential rock records of all time!50TH ANNIVERSARY: Celebrate five decades of Destroyer and witness how KISS made history! ?NEW CONTENT: reveals the story of how the band crafted Beth, Shout It Out Loud, and other monumental tracks on the album. This book also includes never-before-published images and exclusive interviews with band members and key personnel.PERFECT GIFT: KISS fans and collectors will bang their heads and scream when they receive this book as a present.

As a renowned forensic consultant digs into a case that could reconnect her with her long-missing father, she uncovers dark truths about her desert hometown. This twisty, atmospheric mystery from New York Times bestselling author Paige Shelton will send chills racing down readers spines.The desert runs through Hazel Dylans marrow. She grew up on the edge of The Wild, an untamed expanse outside her hometown of Black Vulture, Arizona. She became fascinated with bones as a child while observing her taxidermist father, Wilmot, until he disappeared without a trace decades ago. Now, after years of study and countless cases, shes known as the Bone Woman. She can read the dark stories that bones tell.When a hiker makes a disturbing discovery in The Wildbleached human bones arranged with surgical precision into a taxidermy-like sculpture of a coyote mid-howlSheriff Calloway summons Hazel to the scene. Not just for her formidable expertise but because it looks like it could be Wilmots work. Could Hazels father be behind this twisted creation? Are these his bones? Hazel doesnt want to believe either is true, but after another sculpture is found, and Wilmots well-known talismana rogue finger boneis discovered amid both sets of remains, she cant deny the optics.As the case takes Hazel deep into her past, she unearths long-buried secrets. And with time running out, shell have to risk her own skin to catch the killer.

Jeremy Rupke, creator of the How to Hockey phenomenon, shoots and scores with this dynamic, informative, and, most of all, fun guide to playing hockey for people of all ages.Packed with practical information about improving your team, with lists, step-by-step info, and proven strategies, How to Hockey is everyones ultimate guide to improving their game, from the net to defence to forwards. Along the way you learn that practice isnt supposed to be pretty, repetition is your friend, and, more than anything, fun is the key.Jeremy Rupke has broken the mold, proving that those who can, teach. The creator of the wildly popular How to Hockey website, YouTube channels, and across social media has turned his hockey skillset and coaching mentality into a virtual empire, instructing people young and old from around the world on how to improve their games and, most importantly, how to make the experience fun.Rupke grew up in a small town where hockey was everything but where the coaching experiences were mixed: some great, well-meaning people doing their best. He learned a lot about the game and found himself teaching himself a lot of aspects of the sport along the way, whether practicing his shot in his familys barn or skating on the pond, carving the ice, teaching himself new moves.Coach Jeremy, as hes known, shows his fans everything he knows all in one place: how to shoot the puck effectively, how to use everyday items for slalom skating and target practice, how to defend oncoming wingers, how to crush your slapshot, how to take a hit, score like Bedard, celly like Matthews, and most of all, how to hockey. Without doubt, How to Hockey provides vital instruction and inspiration and will instill or re-instill a lasting love of the greatest game on ice.

I could not put it down MADELINE CASH The acclaimed author of The Art of Fielding returns with a long-awaited, immersive new novel. The Brightness follows the electric, chaotic, everything-can-happen lives of Pella Affenlight and her best friend, Irma, as they fumble their way into a larger world that wont stop changing. At 27, Pellas life looks settled: shes a recent college graduate, engaged to Mike, her longtime boyfriend, and helping her friend Owen pull off his own destination wedding on Block Island. But over that wild wedding weekend, Pellas past and present collide spectacularly, blowing up her plans and sending her spiralling toward an unplanned future in New York City. There, in a city thats equal parts glittering opportunity and cutthroat grit, Pella is forced to see herself in constantly changing lights as she wrestles with who she is and what she will become. As she cycles through possibilities and identities is she an artist? A bartender? A scholar, a lover, a wife? Pella navigates the heights and depths of passion and ambition, and the incalculable wages of love and loss. In stunning scenes and spectacular characters, Chad Harbach captures that specific, shimmering anxiety of your twenties when life still feels wide open, even as hard and irreversible choices start closing in. Energetic, funny, and deeply human, this much-anticipated follow-up to The Art of Fielding confirms Chad Harbach as one of the most accomplished and perceptive writers of our time.

Three-time Hugo Award finalist Yoon Ha Lee returns to science fiction with a swashbuckling space opera fighting against an evil empire trying to erase history.In the stars-spanning Censorate, languages other than the Republics own lingua rubra, which has reality-altering properties, are forbidden. Nevertheless, there are discrepancies. The Censorates star forces are called the Athenaeum Navy, and each of its ships is referred to as a codex. Instead of port and starboard, its soldiers refer to verso and recto. The unholy stigmata gouged into the ships hulls might, to a foreign scholar, bear a resemblance to verboten texts in other languages. The Censorate is ruled by its Peacock, Aurelia, feared for the power of panopticon: she can look through anyones eyes. Moreover, Aurelias mastery of lingua rubra lets her force anyone who can understand her to follow her orders. Valentina, sold to Aurelias family as a child to be Aurelias oath-sister and companion, is its Swan, responsible for extracting useful information from foreign texts, then destroying them as well as entire languages through arcane arts. Valentina is assisted in her work by lower-ranking linguists and AI assistants who accept temporary contamination by foreign languages as a necessity of their work. But this isnt enough for Aurelia. She wants to control and deploy the Censorates thousand-year traitor and prisoner, the Basilisk, a man with a gaze so lethal that he destroyed its fleet of old through camera feeds. Unfortunately for her, the Basilisk gave himself a form of aphasia that makes him immune to her commands.

From an acclaimed screenwriter comes a provocative, propulsive debut novel about a billionaire tech visionary who creates a method to stop aging, putting him in the crosshairs of an extremist group and forcing a tense reunion with his estranged son, who is dying of old age.Paul Whitmore, the worlds wealthiest man, begins each day on his secluded Marin, California, estate with a guided meditation, an hour of exercise, and a proprietary nutritional shake. These are the first three steps in a strict, monastic protocol known as the Methoda protocol which arrests the aging process. Paul is 122 years old, yet he appears no older than fifty; he has unlocked the secret to eternal life and is ready to bring his breakthrough to market. The world is poised to enter a post-aging future.But not everyone wants Paul to succeed, and his enemies are prepared to use violence to keep the Method from launching. Alone in his private Xanadu, Paul is well-insulated from the steady stream of death threats. But when a new threat emerges that targets Pauls estranged son, Max, he is forced to take action. Max is eighty-five years old, living in a nursing home, and has not spoken to his father since he was a child. As far as hes concerned, Paul Whitmore can rot in hell. Paul brings Max to his compound to protect him, but the real test soon becomes clear: can he care for his son? Is it ever too late to be a father? Is it ever too late to be a son? Unfortunately, the answers to these questions require timeand time is suddenly in short supply. The men who have threatened his son are coming for them both, and the gates surrounding his compound are less secure than he realizes.A page-turner with unusual depth and substance, The Natural Order grapples with issues of technology, mortality, and the true value of time.

What if joy wasnt something you chased, but something you tuned in to?This beautiful, unique and exciting new collection from Sunday Times bestselling poet Donna Ashworth will help you rediscover delight in the everyday and choose positivity, peace and presence, even in chaos.In a new format blending poems, essays, author-illustrated affirmations, personal stories, visualizations and meditative prompts, this book can be read from beginning to end or be opened at random to calm even the busiest of minds, shift perspective and remind you that joy is often just a moment away.Through soulful reflections and honest insights from her own journey, Donna walks you through eight heart-led chapters which will encourage you to:· Shift from perfectionism to presence· Find delight in the ordinary every day· Rewrite the script of your inner voices· Reclaim childlike wonder, even in difficult seasons· Choose joy on purpose and let it change everythingThe Art of Being Easily Pleased is a beautifully designed, giftable guide to living with acceptance, wonder, boldness and a heart open to the everyday miracles all around us.You must master the art of delighting in the ordinary to survive this world and its chaos. Listen. Look. Be pleased, my friends, be pleased. There is much to be pleased about.

Another sweeping speculative, romantic novel from the author of As Many Souls as Stars, in which attendees of a magical auction must bid secrets in exchange for their greatest desires. Perfect for fans of Erin Morgenstern or V.E. Schwab.Reverie and Sons humbly requests your attendance at THE AUCTION OF SECRETS.Genevieve de Vienne does not remember the journey to the Chateau Reverie. She only remembers receiving her invitation to the Auction of Secrets, writing upon it her greatest desireto forget the woman she once lovedand setting it aflame.Leander Sterne does not remember a life outside of the Chateau Reverie. When he receives his own invitation, he does not have any secrets to bid, but his greatest desirehis libertyis worth risking everything. He has nothing to lose.Alongside five fellow attendees, Leander and Genevieve must survive three nights in the Chateau in order to bid their secrets and win their hearts desire. But the Chateau has a mind of its own. As guests begin to disappear and Leander and Genevieve become more and more entangled, it becomes clear that the rules of the Auction might not be in anyones favorand even those who win might not be allowed to leave.Written in Natasha Siegels transportive, lush prose and set amidst the final days of the French Revolution, Chateau Reverie is a rococo fairytale full of horrors and wonders: both a sweeping romance and a twisting speculative mystery.

A vengeful monster hunter is forced to work with a charming monster in this addictive blend of horror and fantasy from R.R. Schaeffer.In a world teeming with monsters and even more monstrous gods, Jierz lost everything to a creature that ate the minds of her family and friends and then puppeted their corpses for its own purpose. After three years working as a monster hunter, now shes ready to get her vengeance. But to hunt the creature down and kill it, shell need to team up with the only other survivor from her homea man who used to be her best friend, until she found out that he was a type of monster whod been stealing and manipulating emotions, including hers. Hes desperate to rekindle their friendship, and even if shes still angry at him, she believes she can use him to get revenge. Together, theyre going to hunt down the creature that killed everyone from their home. But its very easy for the hunter to become the hunted....

A charming, funny picture book that teaches young readers aged 36 that the key to happiness isnt acquiring more and more stuffits friendship!Squirrel and Mouse are going for a lovely walk, but Squirrel keeps spotting more and more things he wants .. a hat! rollerskates! a boingy stick! a paddling pool with a cold drink and a boat to float . the list goes on! Its only when Mouse gets fed up and goes home that Squirrel realizes that none of his stuff matters without Mouse there to share it with him.With character-driven illustrations by renowned author-illustrator Ged Adamson and a laugh out loud story, this picture book touches on two important topics friendship and consumerism in a light-hearted, fun way for eco-conscious families with young readers. Its a hilarious story that children will want to keep picking up, as each time theyll notice a new detail in the background hinting at the ending.

How conflict is waged through sound, vibration, and atmospheric occupation, from the drone-filled skies over Gaza to turbulent airs in Beirut.The Trembling City is a gripping account of cities that shudder under the vibrational force of occupation, siege, and war. From the persistent drone noise of Gaza to turbulent skies above Beirut, Gascia Ouzounian uncovers the insidious role of sound and vibration as instruments of violence that shape urban life. She introduces two interlinked concepts: vibrational warfarea covert violence enacted through waves; and atmospheric occupationthe seizure of a citys airs to unsettle, dominate, and control. Together, these frameworks reveal how cities themselves become instruments of war: amplifying sonic shock, conducting energy through bodies, air, and buildings, and saturating everyday life with violence.Moving beyond accounts of sonic violence that focus on overt formssound cannons, sonic boomsOuzounian traces more elusive but equally devastating forms: turbulent airs, residual sounds, and sonic erasures. Drawing on earwitness testimony, clandestine forensic analysis, and illicit archives, The Trembling City proposes new ways of hearing what states work to conceal: counterlistening as resistance, and a negative acoustics attuned to what cannotor must notbe heard. Urgent and unflinching, the book reimagines cities as vibrational territories and listening as both a site of injury and a practice of endurance, survival, and critique.

A mother and son travel to a dilapidated cabin in the woods that haunts more than just her memories in this new unnerving horror from the author of The Whistler and Sisters of the Lost Nation.Nell Marin swore she would never return to the place where part of her died.The passing of her estranged father, however, leaves her with no choice but to take her teenage son, Oscar, back to the run-down family cabin on Torchlight Lake, where horrific memories linger. The two will fix the place up, sell it, and ensure Nell never has to return to that dreaded lake again.But when the roadswhich pass through Native landare barricaded by the local Tribe, the quick trip turns into weeks. Oscar, a horror movie buff, knows this is exactly how it starts. As the long summer days drag on, unsettling things begin to occur: screams ring out over the water and a mysterious figure watches the cabin from the trees at night. Most disturbing of all, his mother is becoming less and less herself.As the strange events lead Oscar to uncover the secrets Nell has shielded him from, he is forced to confront a reality that is far more frightening than movie monsters. He must uncover answers to the questions that stole so much from his motherbefore the horror that traumatized Nell drags him under as well.

From the visionary force behind EAs most beloved video games, a must-read book on what the billion-dollar secrets of game design can teach us about building products better and making customers happierVideo games are the biggest entertainment industry in the worldfor a reason. Games tap into human psychology and drives like nothing else. So how can we recreate the satisfaction we feel playing games in day-to-day life? How can we harness that feeling to grow better businesses?These are the questions Bing Gordon has been trying to answer over his 40 year career in tech. Affectionately known as the godfather of the video game world, his influence and canonized Gamification Checklist have shaped the games and companies we engage with every day: EA Sports, Farmville, The Sims, Amazon Prime, Zynga, Spotify, Audible, Twitch, Duolingo, and Cameo, to name a few.Now, in Everybody Wins, Bing dives into each of the eight core elements of his checklist, lessons extracted from a lifetime in games:Wow Moments: Lead with unforgettable moments of exaltation Everybody Wins: Engineer wins to be frequent, evident, and earned Invest and Express: Create opportunities for self-expression and recognition Session Economics: Make every session feel worth the time it took Social Integration: Prioritize integrating social connection, always Retention Hacking: Build forever franchises that delight and grow Game Loops: Design satisfying repetition Quantify Everything: Measure achievements at the micro-level Packed with unforgettable stories of Bings mind-boggling career, Everybody Wins imparts hard-earned wisdom that any business and anyone can implement for creating irresistible products and experiences. As all well-designed games show, when these principles are applied, youll always feel like youre winning.

A single mom and her neurodivergent son battle for survival and stability in a post-apocalyptic world, one that is arguably no less harsh to them then the pre-pandemic one, in this gripping, one-of-a-kind debut.Ever since Mays husband decided parenthood wasnt for him and left, its just been May and her autistic son with high support needs, Davis, against the world. A rather unwelcoming one that never had much patience or understanding.Then 99.9% of the population was wiped out by a virus in just a few weeks, and that world ended. May has kept herself and Davis alive only through the self-imposed isolation she got so good at in the Before. They have their routines, their cozy nest in an abandoned library, and most importantly, the old battery-powered Game Boy that offers Davis familiarity and comfort in a world thats difficult to understand.One day May runs into a stranger while out scavenging for the precious batteries that keep Daviss Game Boy alive. This stranger calls himself Bird, he has inteland a proposition. Supposedly theres an entire haven of survivors nearby. Bird wants in, and he needs May and Davis to play along as wife and child in order to guarantee himself a spot. Besides, wouldnt May want to be part of a community again?Not particularlybut the survivors have batteries. So she reluctantly agrees. And while May knows better than to trust the man who ripped her and Davis out of their routines, she cant help but open up to him. But when Birds true motivations come to light, her old life collides with the new in terrifyingly dark ways, forcing May to question how far she would go to protect her son. How long can she and Davis last until the batteries run out?

PREMIUM PRACTICE FOR A PERFECT 5WITH THE BESTSELLING AP U.S. HISTORY BOOK ON THE MARKET! Ace the digital AP U.S. History Exam with this comprehensive study guide. Includes 6 practice exams with answer explanations, timed online practice, and thorough content review.The Princeton Reviews AP U.S. History Premium Prep is a one-stop-shop guide that will help you prep for the exam with confidence. In this book, youll get:Test Prep That Actually Works Written by real AP teachers and tutors for an expert edge Backed by 40+ years of proven test prep expertise Consistently excellent content thats always being updated Everything You Need for a High Score Comprehensive coverage of AP U.S. History, from early colonialization to the Cold War Proven strategies to avoid test traps and achieve your best score Diagnostic answer key that identifies your focus areas Extra online Student Tools, including digital flashcards, weekly study plans, and a guide on how to approach the Digital AP Premium Practice for AP Excellence 6 full-length practice tests (3 in the book, 3 online) with detailed answer explanations Practice the way you want it, with both in-book and online tests (provided digitally with timer or as downloadable interactive PDFs) Practice drills at the end of each content review chapter

Tis the season for mistletoe, twinkling lights, and fiery romance in snowy New York City. After getting miserably dumped, the last thing Kennedy expects is a whirlwind romance with her office rival Milobut with a huge promotion on the line, their competition isnt the only thing heating up.Perfect for fans of office romance, holiday love stories, sizzling enemies-to-lovers, and authors like Maggie Knox, Hannah Grace, Tessa Bailey, and Sally Thorne.The holidays have arrived and while most couples are cozying up by the fire, real estate agent Kennedy is scrambling to find her confidence after a messy breakup. Lesson learned: never get involved with your coworker. Hoping for a fun night out, Kennedy takes her best friends advice and attends her offices exclusive Christmas party. But when she spots her ex at the party with his girlfriendwho is now sporting a shiny new engagement ringher resolve to stay above it all crashes down.Desperate to feel anything but misery, Kennedy kisses the first guy she seesa tall mysterious man with dazzling blue eyes. The kiss is electric, but when they pull away, her night of holiday horror only seems to get worse. Who she thought was a stranger is Milo, her office rival.Their usual office banter begins to take on a new heat, as they both are next in line for a big promotion. Kennedy always puts work first, and after her last relationship, shes vowed to never fall for another colleague. But the sparks between her and Milo are impossible to ignore, and staying away from him proves to be her most difficult challenge yet.

A clear-eyed look at what AI actually isand why we must focus on AI systems that augment human cognition, rather than mimic it.From a seasoned AI researcher and a VC investor and entrepreneur.Augmented Human Intelligence cuts through all the hype and noise around AI by returning to a central, often overlooked question: What is intelligence actually for? Rather than aiming to build autonomous superintelligent agents, AI leaders Erik Larson and Chee-We Ng argue in this book that we should focus on systems that support and extend human judgment, understanding, and decision-makingcapacities that the current AI largely ignores.Most state-of-the-art models rely on statistical induction at scale. They generate text, recognize patterns, and predict outcomes with remarkable speedbut without any grasp of meaning, consequence, or purpose. The authors of this book contend this is not merely a technical limitation, but a conceptual one: intelligence is not pattern-matching alone. It emerges from interaction with the world, guided by goals, feedback, and relevance.This book aims to clarify the confusion around what AI is and isnt, across everything from self-driving cars to robotics to conversational systems. In doing so, the authors hope to spur a shift in perspectivetoward AI systems that augment human cognitive strengths rather than mimic human beings.What makes this book unique is its insistence that judgment and understanding arent optional extrastheyre central to the very idea of intelligence. By reframing what we mean by thinking, the authors invite readers to imagine a different future for AI: one grounded not in simulation or spectacle, but in support for real human insight.