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Happy #PubDay to RETHINKING MEDICATIONS by Jerry A

Happy #PubDay to RETHINKING MEDICATIONS by Jerry Avon, MD, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

America’s prescription drug system is at a crossroads. Once the envy of the world, our medication evaluation process is being seriously compromised. Under pressure from drugmakers, the FDA has been lowering its approval standards and has let ineffective and risky products enter the market—while our prescription prices, the highest in the world, put crucial treatments beyond the reach of many. In RETHINKING MEDICATIONS, Dr. Avorn illuminates the invisible forces that shape how the drugs we take every day are developed, tested, and marketed to consumers. From the pharma industry’s powerful lobbying machine to the FDA’s dependence on fees from drugmakers, Dr. Avorn paints a vivid picture of a health care system that too often prioritizes profits over patients.

Dr. Avorn says that the already fragile and flawed system is deeply threatened today by the policy and leadership changes that followed the 2024 US elections. Already, Robert Kennedy, Jr., the new leader of the Department of Health and Human Services, who has no prior experience or credentials in any field of public health, is dismantling the agencies under his purview, including the FDA, CDC, NIH and the Medicare and Medicaid programs, which are all critical to ensuring the public’s medical well-being. Still, there is hope, according to Dr. Avorn, and he offers practical steps that consumers, policymakers, and practitioners can take to address these problems and ensure our drugs are safe, effective, and affordable. In prose that is always accessible to readers with no medical expertise, Dr. Avorn’s messages are by turns enlightening, infuriating and at times darkly funny.

“A masterful assessment of a highly flawed health care system.” —Kirkus Reviews

“A damning survey of the drug development system’s many failures, this enlightens even as it infuriates.” —Publishers Weekly

“This eye-opening look at the pharmaceutical industry should make FDA officials want to scrutinize drug approvals more carefully, doctors want to prescribe more carefully, and patients want to consume more carefully.” —Booklist

Happy #PubDay to TWIST, a propulsive new novel of

Happy #PubDay to TWIST, a propulsive new novel of rupture and repair in the digital age from Colum McCann, the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin and Apeirogon.

In TWIST, Irish journalist and playwright Anthony Fennell is assigned a story about of the underwater cables that carry the world’s information. The sum of human existence—words, images, transactions, memes, voices, computer viruses—travels through the tiny fiber optic tubes under the sea. But sometimes the tubes break at an unfathomable depth. Fennell’s journey brings him to the west coast of Africa, where he meets mysterious fellow Irishman John Conway, a skilled engineer and a freediver capable of reaching extraordinary depths. When Conway and his crew are sent to repair a series of major underwater breaks, both men learn that the very cables they seek to fix carry the news that may cause their lives to unravel. At sea, they are forced to confront the most elemental questions of life, love, absence, belonging, and the perils of our severed connections. Resoundingly simple and turbulent at the same time, TWIST is a meditation on the nature of narrative and truth from one of the great storytellers of our time.

“What a beautiful, sparkling book this is. Another astounding novel from a fiction master.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred) ⭐️

“Readers will be dazzled.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred) ⭐️

“A breath-held novel pulsing with echoes of Joseph Conrad…Each line is keenly crafted and every element is momentous.”
—Booklist (starred) ⭐️

“McCann places memorable characters in intriguing situations and spins beguiling tales around them.”
—Library Journal (starred) ⭐️

#OnShelvesNow: INDIAN GENIUS, a sharp and engaging

#OnShelvesNow: INDIAN GENIUS, a sharp and engaging look at the meteoric rise of Indians in America by author and journalist Meenakshi Ahamed.

Since its founding, successive waves of immigrants from all parts of the world have found their way to the US in search of the American dream. Yet the remarkable rise and successes of Indian Americans within one generation makes them an outlier. What accounts for their singular ability to break into mainstream American culture and their meteoric rise within its ranks? In INDIAN GENIUS, Ahamed explores the successes of contemporary Indian Americans with a focus on three impactful areas: tech, medicine, and public policy. Ahamed’s brilliant portraits of such well-known figures as Satya Nadella, Vinod Khosla, Shantanu Narayen, Chandrika Tandon, Nikesh Arora, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Deepak Chopra, Nikki Haley, and Fareed Zakaria illuminate their rise and ability to succeed at the highest levels. Based on a series of interviews and full of fresh and surprising stories, INDIAN GENIUS reveals the private strengths that made possible each individual’s public achievements. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the path to success in America.

“Buoyant…An upbeat, informative look at immigrant contributions to America.”
—Publishers Weekly

#OnShelvesNow: Madeleine Henry’s NAME NOT TAKEN,

#OnShelvesNow: Madeleine Henry’s NAME NOT TAKEN, a thrilling psychological novel rich in suspense and family drama.

Henry plumbs the term mother-in-law from hell to new depths in NAME NOT TAKEN, in which future in-laws draw a young woman into a dark labyrinth. Devon Ferrell and Richard Belmont are in love, engaged, and from two different worlds. Devon is as eager to please Richard’s elite parents as she is to leave the traumas of her childhood behind. After all, the Belmonts are her family now—but being brought into the fold is unbalancing her. There are the piercing stares from Richard’s brother, the confounding whispers about Devon’s moods and health. It’s as if the Belmonts are looking for reasons to reject her, to fill her with self-doubt and put her on edge. Are the Belmonts right to be concerned about Devon? Or are they waging a psychological battle against her? The truth is getting darker. Because the mind games have just begun.

In NAME NOT TAKEN, Henry turns gaslighting into an art form, taking readers on a suspense-filled exploration of psychological manipulation, probing at the complexities of the in-law dynamic and how power and influence can distort reality and erode trust.

“I could not stop reading Madeleine Henry’s riveting psychological thriller, a complex and captivating story of couples, class, and the war between two powerful women for control of their family and themselves.”
—Pamela Redmond, author of Younger, now a TV series by Darren Star

Happy #PubDay to THE ADJUDICATOR, a propulsive sci

Happy #PubDay to THE ADJUDICATOR, a propulsive sci-fi novel from acclaimed author Susan Daitch!

THE ADJUDICATOR poses a penetrating question: to what extent do our genes shape our future? Portraying a society that practices eugenics with the ostensible aim of eliminating illness, crime, and misery, the novel immerses the reader in the everyday oppression necessary to maintain the illusion of benevolent control. The story centers on one mother’s explosive claim that her child’s consciousness was switched with another child’s in the lab. Readers follow Zedi Lowe as she goes deep undercover to find answers with the help of a wild cast of characters, who may or may not be on her side. Searching for clues in the Departments of Admissions, Archives and Records, and Neuronal Correlates, while eluding the disappearachniks, Lowe comes perilously close to the hidden mechanisms of power as well as her own shocking genetic secrets.

Daitch is the critically acclaimed author of six novels, including Siege of Comedians, which was named a best book of the year by the Wall Street Journal. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in numerous literary magazines in addition to The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Fiction.

“With razor-edged prose, fierce intelligence, and humor, [Susan Daitch] crafts a noir-infused tale of desperation and control, pushing the boundaries of the novel’s form through multimedia elements to create an experience as thought-provoking as it is gripping.”
—Ross Benjamin, translator of The Diaries of Franz Kafka

Happy #PubDay to Marc J. Dunkelman’s WHY NOTHING

Happy #PubDay to Marc J. Dunkelman’s WHY NOTHING WORKS! The Power Broker meets The Death of Common Sense in this essential exploration of the architecture of power.

In America today, government too often plays the buffoon. But for all Democrats and progressives scoff at Trumpian invective against government, they themselves are also frustrated that public officials aren’t solving the housing crisis or climate change, among other failures. Across the board, it seems as though the US is falling behind. America was once a country that did big things. Now, nothing works. For many, the temptation is to blame conservatives. But as Dunkelman, a progressive himself, reveals in WHY NOTHING WORKS: Who Killed Progress—and How to Bring It Back, progressivism’s own fears of “the establishment” have served to stifle America’s ability to solve big problems. A half-century ago, the movement’s designs on getting stuff done were eclipsed by an emergent desire to place guardrails around the country’s power brokers—the bureaucrats, politicians, financiers, and corporate executives who might otherwise trample the powerless. But the ensuing deluge of checks on power have worked so effectively that government has been rendered incompetent, unable to fight for social justice, economic equality, and so much more. Dunkelman vividly illustrates what progressives must do if they are going to break through today’s paralysis and restore confidence in democratically elected government.

“Provocative reading for anyone with a stake in public works writ large.”
—Kirkus

Happy #PubDay to THE LICENSING RACKET by Rebecca H

Happy #PubDay to THE LICENSING RACKET by Rebecca Haw Allensworth, which offers a fascinating dive into the underxamined system that regulates one in five U.S. workers.

In THE LICENSING RACKET: How We Decide Who Is Allowed to Work and Why It Goes Wrong (Harvard University Press; February 11, 2025), Vanderbilt Law School professor Rebecca Haw Allensworth offers a fascinating and often shocking look into our nation’s system of professional licensing. In theory, this institution protects the public. But in practice, it is woefully mismanaged with far-reaching economic and social impacts. Would-be workers face ever-increasing barriers to entry into some fields, while other professionals are allowed to keep working despite their egregious abuses on the job. In the end, Americans are paying a high price for the system’s failures, and the most vulnerable are often hit the hardest. Weaving personal and stunning stories of those caught in the system’s pitfalls, Allensworth lays bare licensing’s shortcomings and offers a novel framework for setting it right.

“The Licensing Racket is a pioneering investigation of a broken system. The time has come to reimagine and reform.” —Wall Street Journal

“[A] hard-hitting debut study... Filled with lucid analysis that cuts through the thicket of legal and economic issues, this is a persuasive critique of a pressing regulatory matter.” —Publishers Weekly

#OnShelvesNow: INEVITABLE, a sweeping portrait of

#OnShelvesNow: INEVITABLE, a sweeping portrait of the electric vehicle gold rush and what it means for all of us from veteran Wall Street Journal automotive beat reporter Mike Colias.

For electric vehicles, the question is no longer if they’ll happen, or even when, but how. In INEVITABLE, Colias provides an insider view of the hard pivot in the car business, a $2 trillion industry that hasn’t undergone a change this profound in its 120-year history. Already, the transition to EVs is sending ripples across all aspects of the global economy. Colias documents the massive transformation from internal combustion engines to battery-powered vehicles from every angle. He takes you inside the boardrooms where executives chasing Tesla battle over EV strategies, in fear of being left behind. He brings you to family-run car dealerships wrestling with the decision of whether to sell EVs—or sell their businesses. Colias follows entrepreneurs looking for hidden opportunities along lonely stretches of road that will soon need charging stations. He walks the floors of battery factories where scientists try to pack ever more power into the same space. He talks to power train engineers whose skills, once the beating heart of the car business, are rapidly becoming obsolete. Change is inevitable, but rarely have we seen someone capture what business transformation means in so much detail, bringing to life such change’s profound effect on everything and everyone.

“This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the massive shift that is upending the auto industry as we’ve known it. It reads like a thriller, and it should—the stakes involved for the world automotive industry could not be higher.”
—Mike Murphy, political strategist; founder and CEO, EV Politics Project

#OnShelvesNow: Angela Brown’s SOME OTHER TIME, a

#OnShelvesNow: Angela Brown’s SOME OTHER TIME, an unconventional love story that hits shelves just in time for Valentine’s Day.

Last year, Angela Brown published her debut novel to raves: Kirkus Reviews called Olivia Strauss Is Running Out of Time “a heartfelt exploration of figuring out what one truly wants from life.” Booklist wrote, “Written with warmth and humor despite its somber topics, Brown’s debut novel is a poignant, breezy journey into self-examination.” And Publishers Weekly declared it “an appealing debut…There’s a genuine feeling of hope in Brown’s enjoyable first outing.” Now, in her second novel, Brown introduces a new and equally winning cast of characters who are grappling with marriage, parenting, family, and the “what-ifs” of life. Protagonist Ellie and her husband of twenty years, Jonah, are headed for divorce. They’ve simply fallen out of love, but their family—a college-aged daughter, and Ellie’s eccentric parents—aren’t having it. But what if their lives had gone differently? What if Ellie and Jonah had never crashed into one another? That’s the question Ellie is forced to reckon with on the extraordinary morning when she wakes up to an alternate version of the present day—one in which she and a passing stranger named Jonah never married.

“[Angela Brown is] a relatable, funny, fresh new voice in fiction.” —Good Morning America

#OnShelvesNow: Danielle Prescod’s novel THE RULE

#OnShelvesNow: Danielle Prescod’s novel THE RULES OF FORTUNE, selected by Mindy Kaling for Mindy’s Book Studio, an imprint that celebrates talented and diverse emerging voices.

Prescod’s Token Black Girl, a sharp and candid memoir, was one of the buzziest books of 2022, cited as a must-read by People, USA Today, Town and Country, Ebony, the Los Angeles Times, and more. Prescod’s debut novel carries the same wit and bite found in her memoir, while also asking readers to consider issues of wealth, racial identity, and family. Meet the Carters: first generation “Succession”-level wealth has escalated them to a world of which others can only dream, from multi-million-dollar homes and private jets to drivers and staff aplenty. But along with their wealth comes a complicated scrutiny of the family’s legacy. The Carters gather to celebrate their billionaire patriarch’s birthday on their Martha’s Vineyard estate but are sent spiraling when he dies unexpectedly. The media is quick to question the future of the multi-industry conglomerate that makes the Carters living legends. And amid the internal succession crisis, his daughter, Kennedy—an aspiring filmmaker and thoughtful outlier in an elite and fiercely guarded dynasty—is asking questions about her father’s past. As Kennedy searches out the origins of their empire and their twisted history emerges, the fault lines in the family grow. Torn between morality and the promise of maintaining wealth, the family must decide what’s most important―the Carter legacy or exposing the shocking truth of how it was built.

“Prescod’s debut novel examines the many ways a man can use his power to take advantage of vulnerable people. Suggest to fans of complex fiction with suspenseful twists.” —Booklist

Happy #PubDay to TOO SOON, acclaimed playwright Be

Happy #PubDay to TOO SOON, acclaimed playwright Betty Shamieh’s much-anticipated debut novel!

Shamieh is known for the humor, charm, and heart of her fifteen plays, which include the sold-out runs of New York Times Critic’s Picks Malvolio, a sequel to Twelfth Night; and Roar, which was the first play about Palestinian Americans to appear off-Broadway. Now, following a career illuminating the tangled relationships between Palestinians and Israelis for theater audiences, Shamieh turns to fiction with an irresistible debut. TOO SOON is a funny, sexy, and heart-wrenching account of three generations of unapologetically ambitious and lustful Palestinian American women. At the core of the novel is the question of what it means to be born into a tribe versus what it means to build a tribe of your own choosing. Following this memorable family on a dramatic journey from wartime Jaffa in 1948, to Detroit and San Francisco in the ’60s and ’70s to follow the American dream, to the post-9/11 New York City theater scene, and to Palestine in 2012, TOO SOON weaves together in time and place the storylines of Arabella and her mother and grandmother, Naya and Zoya. Arabella, a New York theater director who is aging out of her position as a hip young upstart and short on romantic prospects, accepts an opportunity to direct a risqué interpretation of a Shakespeare classic in Ramallah. There, Zoya plots to make a match between Arabella and Aziz, a Palestinian American doctor. Their instant chemistry reminds Zoya of the passion she once felt for Aziz’s grandfather—even after her father arranged another husband for her. As it goes with generational inheritance, Zoya would later marry off Naya. Now that Naya’s children are grown and she’s arrived at an abrupt midlife crossroads, it’s time to settle old scores.

“The ribald humor, the over-the-top-ness that [Shamieh] brings to describing this struggle, reminded me of…Philip Roth, navigating between the poles of Jewishness and Americanness with a lecherous grin…What propels her is the idea of creating characters and stories that confound expectations—including, occasionally, her own.”
—The Atlantic

Thrilled to see Tessa Hulls’ graphic memoir FEED

Thrilled to see Tessa Hulls’ graphic memoir FEEDING GHOSTS nominated for the National Book Critic Circle’s John Leonard Prize! Congratulations to Tessa and her amazing publishing team at MCD/FSG.

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Happy #PubDay to RETHINKING MEDICATIONS by Jerry Avon, MD, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.America’s prescription drug system is at a crossroads. Once the envy of the world, our medication evaluation process is being seriously compromised. Under pressure from drugmakers, the FDA has been lowering its approval standards and has let ineffective and risky products enter the market—while our prescription prices, the highest in the world, put crucial treatments beyond the reach of many. In RETHINKING MEDICATIONS, Dr. Avorn illuminates the invisible forces that shape how the drugs we take every day are developed, tested, and marketed to consumers. From the pharma industry’s powerful lobbying machine to the FDA’s dependence on fees from drugmakers, Dr. Avorn paints a vivid picture of a health care system that too often prioritizes profits over patients.Dr. Avorn says that the already fragile and flawed system is deeply threatened today by the policy and leadership changes that followed the 2024 US elections. Already, Robert Kennedy, Jr., the new leader of the Department of Health and Human Services, who has no prior experience or credentials in any field of public health, is dismantling the agencies under his purview, including the FDA, CDC, NIH and the Medicare and Medicaid programs, which are all critical to ensuring the public’s medical well-being. Still, there is hope, according to Dr. Avorn, and he offers practical steps that consumers, policymakers, and practitioners can take to address these problems and ensure our drugs are safe, effective, and affordable. In prose that is always accessible to readers with no medical expertise, Dr. Avorn’s messages are by turns enlightening, infuriating and at times darkly funny.“A masterful assessment of a highly flawed health care system.” —Kirkus Reviews“A damning survey of the drug development system’s many failures, this enlightens even as it infuriates.” —Publishers Weekly“This eye-opening look at the pharmaceutical industry should make FDA officials want to scrutinize drug approvals more carefully, doctors want to prescribe more carefully, and patients want to consume more carefully.” —Booklist ... See MoreSee Less

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Happy #PubDay to TWIST, a propulsive new novel of rupture and repair in the digital age from Colum McCann, the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin and Apeirogon.In TWIST, Irish journalist and playwright Anthony Fennell is assigned a story about of the underwater cables that carry the world’s information. The sum of human existence—words, images, transactions, memes, voices, computer viruses—travels through the tiny fiber optic tubes under the sea. But sometimes the tubes break at an unfathomable depth. Fennell’s journey brings him to the west coast of Africa, where he meets mysterious fellow Irishman John Conway, a skilled engineer and a freediver capable of reaching extraordinary depths. When Conway and his crew are sent to repair a series of major underwater breaks, both men learn that the very cables they seek to fix carry the news that may cause their lives to unravel. At sea, they are forced to confront the most elemental questions of life, love, absence, belonging, and the perils of our severed connections. Resoundingly simple and turbulent at the same time, TWIST is a meditation on the nature of narrative and truth from one of the great storytellers of our time.“What a beautiful, sparkling book this is. Another astounding novel from a fiction master.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred) ⭐️“Readers will be dazzled.” —Publishers Weekly (starred) ⭐️“A breath-held novel pulsing with echoes of Joseph Conrad…Each line is keenly crafted and every element is momentous.” —Booklist (starred) ⭐️“McCann places memorable characters in intriguing situations and spins beguiling tales around them.” —Library Journal (starred) ⭐️ ... See MoreSee Less

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#OnShelvesNow: INDIAN GENIUS, a sharp and engaging look at the meteoric rise of Indians in America by author and journalist Meenakshi Ahamed.Since its founding, successive waves of immigrants from all parts of the world have found their way to the US in search of the American dream. Yet the remarkable rise and successes of Indian Americans within one generation makes them an outlier. What accounts for their singular ability to break into mainstream American culture and their meteoric rise within its ranks? In INDIAN GENIUS, Ahamed explores the successes of contemporary Indian Americans with a focus on three impactful areas: tech, medicine, and public policy. Ahamed’s brilliant portraits of such well-known figures as Satya Nadella, Vinod Khosla, Shantanu Narayen, Chandrika Tandon, Nikesh Arora, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Deepak Chopra, Nikki Haley, and Fareed Zakaria illuminate their rise and ability to succeed at the highest levels. Based on a series of interviews and full of fresh and surprising stories, INDIAN GENIUS reveals the private strengths that made possible each individual’s public achievements. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the path to success in America.“Buoyant…An upbeat, informative look at immigrant contributions to America.”—Publishers Weekly ... See MoreSee Less

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