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It’s National Book Lovers Day- Tell us about the

It’s National Book Lovers Day- Tell us about the best book you’ve read recently and why!

Happy #PubDay to NATURE, DESIGN, AND HEALTH, from

Happy #PubDay to NATURE, DESIGN, AND HEALTH, from renowned landscape architect David Kamp.

David Kamp, FASLA, has pioneered the promotion of health through nature and design. Now, in this new book, Kamp shares his personal story: how a love of nature led to an international career dedicated to designing landscapes that nurture emotional, mental, and physical well-being. Kamp began his career working on Australia’s new Parliament House in Canberra, one of the most significant design commissions of the late twentieth century. Returning to New York, Kamp learned he had contracted HIV, changing the course of his life and career. Kamp adopted a design philosophy that addressed health on every scale—personal, community, and global. His wide-ranging projects include developing one of the first gardens for individuals with HIV/AIDS; creating landscapes for children with autism spectrum disorder and adults with Alzheimer’s Disease; transforming a brownfield into a health center; and helping frame an international, multi-year initiative to combat climate change. Beautifully illustrated with photos of the author’s projects, sketches, and designs, NATURE, DESIGN, AND HEALTH reveals how strengthening our connection to nature improves our lives.

Happy #PubDay to THE WAY LIFE SHOULD BE, the first

Happy #PubDay to THE WAY LIFE SHOULD BE, the first novel from acclaimed memoirist William Dameron!

Dameron’s debut, The Lie: A Memoir of Two Marriages, Catfishing, and Coming Out, was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice, was selected as one of the best LGBTQ memoirs of the year by The Advocate, and was an Amazon Editors’ Pick for best biographies and memoir. It told the story of Dameron’s coming out late in life, owning up to his shadowy past, and facing the future. Now Dameron returns with his first novel: the warm and often funny story of two families thrust together in closer-than-close quarters on the southern coast of Maine. As husbands Thomas and Matt build a new life for themselves after coming out and embarking on a second-chance marriage, their easy way of life—the way life should be—is upended when their three nearly adult children, fleeing personal crises of their own, descend on their fathers’ bliss. Soon after, Matt’s aging parents, lonely sister, and influencer nephew also arrive. Over the course of an unforgettable summer, the family will break apart and come together to understand what life still can be. Perfect for summer reading, THE WAY LIFE SHOULD BE navigates a modern family, flaws and all.

“[Dameron] manages to keep all the story lines taut, and the prose is reliably crisp. Fans of Ann Beattie’s family dramas will admire this touching story.”
—Publishers Weekly

#OnShelvesNow: AS FIGS IN AUTUMN, a beautifully re

#OnShelvesNow: AS FIGS IN AUTUMN, a beautifully rendered memoir from debut author Ben Bastomski.

In fall 2010, freshly graduated from college and reeling from the sudden death of his classmate and childhood friend, Bastomski boarded a plane to Israel to enlist in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) having never held a gun. He would be a trained sharpshooter before summer’s end. AS FIGS IN AUTUMN follows his journey from Ivy League to Israeli army, simultaneously chronicling his path out of grief and toward a new identity. In storytelling vividly attuned to the land and its changing seasons, Bastomski recounts finding solace and meaning with the help of a cast of strangers, brothers-in-arms, and finally family. Set against the diverse landscapes of Israel, AS FIGS IN AUTUMN recounts Bastomski’s time serving across the region after joining Mahal—the special set of non-Israeli-born Jews who volunteer in the IDF—while finding “home” at the southern kibbutz where he is adopted as a brother and son. From Rhode Island to California and at last to Israel, Bastomski finds family where he never expected, and a place of his own in the Israeli mosaic. At once coming-of-age story and epic ballad, Bastomski’s lyrical memoir is both intimate and universal.

“[A] lyrical and elegiac portrait of a young man coming-of-age as he learns the art of war.”
—Publishers Weekly

Premiering today, The Whistleblowers: Inside the T

Premiering today, The Whistleblowers: Inside the Trump Administration is a must-listen podcast that explores the real people behind the government revelations that rocked America. Tune in every Thursday for new episodes hosted by Miles Taylor, the whistleblower behind the anonymous bombshell opinion piece published by the New York Times in 2018 and the blistering #1 bestseller A Warning.

The Trump administration was in large part defined by chaos—especially internally. The volatile rotation of staff often produced instability and led to near-daily leaks to the press. Now, in this new podcast, Taylor dives headfirst into that chaos to bring listeners the inside story of the people behind some of the most explosive government revelations in American history. Taylor will reach deep into the heart of power to bring listeners into the room with—and into the lives of—the high-ranking officials and frontline public servants who tried to bring order to the Trump years while grappling with the most difficult decision of their lives: whether to openly speak the truth. They knew that doing so could cost them their homes, jobs, marriages, and safety—and change the course of history. Was it all worth it?

#OnShelvesNow: A PLACE FOR US, a powerful memoir f

#OnShelvesNow: A PLACE FOR US, a powerful memoir from Pulse shooting survivor and groundbreaking activist Brandon J. Wolf.

Wolf offers a moving portrait of grief and resilience as he traces his journey from young outsider to galvanizing advocate, beginning in the rural hometown he fled for a vibrant Orlando community. There, he found just what he’d been seeking: a sense of belonging, mutual and unconditional love, and the freedom to thrive as a queer Black man. Then, on June 12, 2016, life changed forever. In the exhilarating refuge where he and hundreds of others had discovered a liberating new normal, Brandon found himself crouched in a bathroom while a gunman opened fire at Pulse Nightclub, killing his two best friends and forty-seven others. A celebration of living unapologetically as well as an exploration of what it takes to navigate a world fraught with tragedy and hate, A PLACE FOR US is an unforgettable account of finding hope even—and especially—in the darkest times. Much more than a story about the Pulse Nightclub shooting as an event, this book is about what spaces like Pulse Nightclub—and the people they welcome—mean in the world.

“[A] blazing debut. In stirring prose, Wolf mounts a testament to the power of community and a howling cry for justice. This is unforgettable.”
—Publishers Weekly, starred review ⭐️

Happy #PubDay to Jennifer Pahlka’s RECODING AMER

Happy #PubDay to Jennifer Pahlka’s RECODING AMERICA! We’ll let Ezra Klein introduce it—of a recent hour-long episode, dedicated to RECODING AMERICA, of his award-winning NYT podcast, he said: “My pitch for this episode is simple: Jennifer Pahlka has written one of the best policy books I’ve ever read.”

At the historic moment when we most need our government to work, it is faltering. In RECODING AMERICA, Pahlka—President Obama’s deputy chief technology officer and the founder of Code for America—has issued a clear-eyed call to reexamine how our government works, and how each of us can help make it work better. Drawing on her robust first-hand experience, Pahlka tells a powerful story of how the gaps between policy and delivery hamper government services, leading governments to miss their goals and fail to serve their citizens. Government at all levels has limped into the digital age, offering online services that can feel even more cumbersome than the paperwork that preceded them and widening the gap between the policy outcomes we intend and what we get. But, Pahlka shows, it’s not more money or more tech that we need.

Government is hamstrung by a rigid, Industrial-era culture, in which those who dictate policy are disconnected from the details of implementation. Pahlka pulls back the curtain on the often inefficient processes that typically happen out of public view, revealing how a command-and-control culture has produced bad policy, bloated government, and a sea of red tape. Even more importantly, she details the alternative approach taking hold that keeps pace with today’s world—and reclaims government for the people it is supposed to serve.

“An indispensable new book...RECODING AMERICA isn’t just about tech. It’s about the American administrative state, and it’s a call for paring back the rigid rules that make it so hard to govern, and for rebuilding government’s ability to do its job effectively.”
―The Atlantic

Happy #PubDay to THE DISSIDENT, Paul Goldberg’s

Happy #PubDay to THE DISSIDENT, Paul Goldberg’s fresh take on the Cold War thriller—or, per Pulitzer-winning novelist Joshua Cohen, “Crime and Punishment―for the Jews!”

Goldberg’s first two novels, The Yid and The Chateau, cemented his reputation for humor, satire, and originality among both critics and readers. Now he returns to fiction with the equally clever and hilarious THE DISSIDENT, a genius Cold War thriller set in Moscow, where Goldberg grew up before emigrating at age 14. This latest novel follows protagonist Viktor Moroz, who on his wedding day stumbles upon a murder scene: two gay men, one of them a US official, have been axed to death. Viktor, a Jewish refusenik, is stuck in the Soviet Union because the government has denied his application to leave for Israel; he sits “in refusal” alongside his wife and their group of intellectuals. But the KGB spots Viktor leaving the scene and gives him a choice: find the murderer or become the suspect of convenience. His deadline is nine days later, when Henry Kissinger will arrive in Moscow. Immersive and unpredictable, THE DISSIDENT is Cold War intrigue at its most inventive: an uncompromising look at sacrifice, community, and the scars of history and identity.

“A refreshing and literary take on the genre that appeals to the intellect as well as the pulse.” ―Library Journal, starred review ⭐️

“Goldberg’s genre-defying thriller mixes political reflections, historical perspectives, philosophical musings, and the author’s personal take on the culture and society of Russia…Mesmerizing, eclectic, and intriguing.” ―Booklist

Happy #PubDay to LOST SON, a masterwork of investi

Happy #PubDay to LOST SON, a masterwork of investigative journalism in which WSJ reporter Brett Forrest builds on his viral 2019 article “The FBI Lost Our Son” to tell a haunting true story that reads like a thriller.

When a young American named Billy Reilly vanished in Russia, his parents embarked on a desperate search for answers. An amateur drawn into professional intelligence, Billy had become a Confidential Human Source, one of thousands of civilians who assist FBI agents with investigations—often at great hazard and with little recourse. Unsure whether their son’s disappearance was connected to his mysterious work for the FBI or a personal quest gone wrong, Billy’s parents turned to Forrest, an award-winning national-security reporter for the Wall Street Journal whose investigative work focuses on the former Soviet Union. Now, in LOST SON, Forrest reveals the results of his years-long research to uncover precisely what brought Billy to Russia and what happened to him there, and what the FBI’s role really was in this small-town Midwestern family’s worst nightmare. Divided into two compelling sections, LOST SON tells the story of Billy and his family and the evolution of the national security complex that would entangle them, then picks up with Forrest’s involvement in the case—an account of his own international search for Billy and the dangers of probing guarded secrets. Both a reportorial feat and a devastating, intimate account, LOST SON is a harrowing rendering of the post-9/11 American intelligence machine and the tragic outcomes it creates.

“LOST SON grabs you from the jump and never lets go as the story careens around the globe with the velocity of a stray bullet.” —Christopher Leonard, New York Times bestselling author of Kochland

#OnShelvesNow: Bina Shah’s thrilling, timely new

#OnShelvesNow: Bina Shah’s thrilling, timely new novel THE MONSOON WAR.

When Shah’s dystopian tale of patriarchy and authoritarianism Before She Sleeps was first published in 2018, it was met with critical acclaim, drawing comparisons to The Handmaid’s Tale—and praise from Margaret Atwood herself. Then, after Roe v. Wade was overturned, the novel landed on recommended reading lists from publications like The Atlantic. Now, at a crucial cultural and political moment, Shah returns to the futuristic setting of Before She Sleeps in an epic and prescient new story of autonomy and resistance. THE MONSOON WAR unfolds in a post-nuclear Middle Eastern world where, in the near-future nation of Dhofar, government leaders maintain a stranglehold over women’s liberty and reproductive lives. But in a neglected southern province, an all-women armed resistance bands together as the Hamiyat, the protectors of those who are too weak to withstand. There, they plan a daring attack in pursuit of the ultimate prize: freedom. An urgent read in a post-Roe world, THE MONSOON WAR powerfully harnesses the metaphor of women’s bodies as the battleground on which the wars of the future will be played out.

“Betrayals, reversals, action and nail-biting suspense make for an addictive story…and the characters and their incandescent fellowship will keep you obsessed.”
—Washington Post

Happy #PubDay to THE YELLOW PAD, a guide to making

Happy #PubDay to THE YELLOW PAD, a guide to making better decisions in an uncertain world from Robert Rubin, the former secretary of the Treasury and co-chairman of Goldman Sachs.

Rubin has spent his more than five decades in markets, business, and government grappling with an essential question: How do we make sound decisions in the face of uncertainty, especially when the stakes are high? Throughout his life and career, when making a critical call, Rubin has turned to his most trusted tool: a simple yellow legal pad. Now, in this new book, Rubin shares his decision-making philosophy. Today the uncertainty we must deal with is even greater, and the existential stakes higher, than at any point in Rubin’s lifetime. Though our culture encourages us to seek out a false sense of certainty, THE YELLOW PAD shows that recognizing uncertain conditions actually enables us to make better choices. Demonstrating how probabilistic thinking can be applied to today’s most urgent issues, such as climate change, and breaking down how the yellow pad approach has guided him on personal and professional matters, Rubin empowers readers to adopt a similarly effective framework.

“With intellectual heft and plenty of actionable items, this is a smart prescription for better thinking.”
—Kirkus Reviews

A lovely night celebrating the PEN Faulkner Awards

A lovely night celebrating the PEN Faulkner Awards with the Shreve Williams team

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What a treat to work with the brilliant and delightful @amanda_montell, whose book, THE AGE OF MAGICAL OVERTHINKING, will debut at #6 on the @nytbooks bestseller list next week! We couldn’t be more thrilled for you! ... See MoreSee Less

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Happy #PubDay to Helen Tworkov’s memoir LOTUS GIRL, in which the legendary founding editor of Tricycle magazine explores the relationship between Buddhist wisdom and American values.As the daughter of an artist, Helen Tworkov grew up in the heady climate of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism. Yet from an early age, her disenchantment with the world energized a quest for a religion of greater meaning. LOTUS GIRL opens with the 1963 Pulitzer Prize-winning image of Thich Quang Duc, the Vietnamese monk sitting in formal meditation as he burns to death after self-immolating to protest his government’s crackdown on the Buddhist clergy. It was then that Tworkov realized that radically different states of mind existed, initiating her own attempts to integrate political and spiritual liberation. At the age of twenty-two, she set off for Japan, then traveled through Cambodia, India, and eventually Tibetan refugee camps in Nepal. Set against the arresting cultural backdrop of the sixties and their legacy, this intimate self-portrait depicts Tworkov’s search for a true home as she interacts with renowned artists and spiritual luminaries including the Dalai Lama, Pema Chödrön, Joseph Goldstein, Bernie Glassman, Charles Mingus, Elizabeth Murray, and Richard Serra. Interweaving experience, research, and revelation, Tworkov presents a singular look at the developing landscape of Buddhism in the West.“Stimulating and elegant…With abundant self-awareness, Tworkov traces how she sought enlightenment only to find herself on a winding and ultimately rewarding Buddhist ‘path of confusion,’ while also providing an incisive insider’s look at the naivete of the first generation of American converts to Buddhism. This enlightens.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review ⭐️ ... See MoreSee Less

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Shreve Williams

6 days ago

#OnShelvesNow: Writer, linguist, and podcaster Amanda Montell’s latest, THE AGE OF MAGICAL OVERTHINKING. Whip-smart cultural commentator Amanda Montell (known for her books Cultish & Wordslut and hit podcast Sounds Like a Cult) turns her keen lens to the thoroughly modern behaviors and beliefs we exhibit as we attempt to cope with the overload of our hyper-connected world. Deftly combining social science, journalism, and personal storytelling, she zeroes in on the cognitive biases—self-deceptive thought patterns our brains evolved long ago to save us time—that lead us to behave in these curious and irrational ways. The good news is that we are not alone in our irrationality here in THE AGE OF MAGICAL OVERTHINKING. “Montell’s take on how irrationality went mainstream is informed by erudite wit and an eye for telling images.” —Kirkus, starred review ⭐”Rarely have so few pages explained so much, so entertainingly.” —NYT bestselling author Mary Roach“Anyone who’s ever been trapped in their own head can find solace in Amanda Montell’s latest work.” —NYLON ... See MoreSee Less

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Shreve Williams

3 weeks ago

Happy #PubDay to GOD’S GHOSTWRITERS, a disruptive and profound new work from renowned biblical scholar Candida Moss.For the past two thousand years, Christian tradition, scholarship, and pop culture have credited the authorship of the New Testament to seven sainted men: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, James, Peter, and Paul. But the truth is that these apostles did not write alone; in some ways, they did not write at all. Hidden behind these legendary individuals are a cluster of enslaved coauthors and collaborators. But, despite overwhelming evidence that enslaved workers cowrote and meaningfully shaped the most thoroughly analyzed text in history, modern scholarly biases have kept these individuals concealed from view. Now, in GOD’S GHOSTWRITERS, Moss shares the untold story of the enslaved people who created and spread the message of the New Testament—and reveals how their omission from the historical record has led to widespread misinterpretation of even the most foundational Christian concepts. These essential workers had an enormous influence on the Bible and in the rise of Christianity itself—and, with that, the world today. Yet their role has been almost entirely overlooked until now. Surprising and necessary, GOD’S GHOSTWRITERS is filled with revelations for both what it means to be a Christian and how our broader ideas around credit and authorship inform our understanding of past and present.“[GOD’S GHOSTWRITERS] brings the world of ancient slavery to grim life, and connects larger issues of collaboration and credit to the material facts of ancient work, making it impossible to ignore the labor between the lines.” —New York Times Book Review ... See MoreSee Less

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Shreve Williams

4 weeks ago

Happy #PubDay to ORIANA, Anastasia Rubis’ biographical novel of the glamorous journalist Oriana Fallaci.In Rubis’ novel, a Hollywood producer approaches Oriana at the end of her life to propose a movie, and the story unfolds of her remarkable career, tragic love, and greatest regret. Oriana Fallaci was born a rebel. She fought beside her father as a teen in Italy’s Resistance against the Nazis and overcame poverty, the lack of a university education, and relentless sexism in the newsroom. In 1973 she was hailed by Newsweek as the greatest political interviewer of her day, famous for confrontational interviews with Kissinger, Arafat, Meir, Khomeini, and other notorious figures. She also did what no journalist is supposed to: she fell in love with one of her subjects, Alexander Panagoulis, the Greek poet and hero. She was ten years older; he lived in a different country. It didn’t matter. Oriana had finally found what she longed for: a full life. But can a woman ever have it all?“I remember Oriana Fallaci vividly and was thrilled to read this novel about her work and her life…In scene after breathtaking scene, we relive a time of great hope when getting at the truth was possible. A truly inspiring debut.” —Alice Elliott Dark, author of In the Gloaming ... See MoreSee Less

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