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Happy #PubDay to LET ME LIBERATE YOU, debut noveli

Happy #PubDay to LET ME LIBERATE YOU, debut novelist Andie Davis’ “satire of class, race, and savior complexes [that] draws richly on Bajan culture and customs” (Kirkus Reviews).

Dark, lanky, and bald, New York City–raised photographer Sabre can’t tell if she’s highly talented or just highly Instagrammable. Done with art critics and their insipid praise, Sabre returns to Barbados, her childhood island home, to water her roots. She needs to quell self-doubt by doing something—anything—profoundly important. So sets the stage for LET ME LIBERATE YOU, a scathingly funny and brilliantly observed satire. Drawing on themes of privilege, class struggle, performative activism in the age of social media, and growing distrust in legacy institutions, this smart debut slays as it asks keenly relevant questions about living authentically. Welcoming Sabre home with bejeweled open arms is her aunt Aggie, a fearsome high-society attorney. When Sabre witnesses Aggie unleash her wrath on the household staff over a minor mistake, Sabre finds her cause. During an interview for a puff piece about art, Sabre goes off-script and takes a righteous stand against the tyranny of the ruling class—starting with Aggie. Overnight, Sabre throws her family and an entire island into chaos. How many ways can the best intentions go wrong?

Happy #PubDay to REBELS WITH A CAUSE, an urgent ne

Happy #PubDay to REBELS WITH A CAUSE, an urgent new work from internationally recognized developmental psychologist Niobe Way.

We are experiencing a crisis of connection in which rates of depression, anxiety, loneliness, and suicide are soaring among most age groups—but particularly among young people. Mass violence, a consequence of this crisis, seems almost commonplace, and almost all of it is committed by young men. Niobe Way offers a profound exploration of this crisis and its roots, impacts, and solutions in REBELS WITH A CAUSE: Reimagining Boys, Ourselves, and Our Culture. Drawing from nearly four decades of research with ethnically and racially diverse boys and young men, Way reveals how our modern culture clashes with human nature and our human needs, to devastating effect. We value thinking over feeling, stoicism over vulnerability, the self over relationships, the “hard” over the “soft”—when really, we all need both. The solution to our crisis, Way reveals, lies not only in recognizing this problem as cultural, rather than individual, but also in fostering our innate capacities to care and listen with curiosity to each other. If we do so in our homes, schools, and workplaces, we can begin to see beyond stereotypes, connect more fully, and change our culture so it’s less depressing, anxiety-provoking, and lonely to live in.

“Rebels with a Cause may just be the book we need to save America from itself.”
—Lisa Arrastia, founding director of The Ed Factory and associate professor of education, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts

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Happy #PubDay to FIFTEEN CENTS ON THE DOLLAR, a pi

Happy #PubDay to FIFTEEN CENTS ON THE DOLLAR, a piercing and comprehensive examination of the Black-white wealth gap from seasoned journalist-academics Louise Story and Ebony Reed.

Fifteen cents is the amount of wealth that typical Black families have compared to one dollar of the typical white family’s wealth. This Black-white wealth ratio remains almost as stark as it was in the years after the Civil War, when it stood at 1.8 cents on the dollar. The gap initially narrowed quickly in the late 1800s, but then its progress was halted. Further improvements in the later 1900s were reversed in the 2000s. But why has this number been stagnant so long? Now, in FIFTEEN CENTS ON THE DOLLAR, Story and Reed offer a deeply human narrative history of Black wealth and the economic discrimination embedded in America’s financial system through public and private policies that created today’s Black-white wealth gap. Following the lives of seven Black Americans—some famous and some not well-known—of different economic levels, ages, and professions during the three years following the police killing of George Floyd, the authors bring data, research, and history to life. FIFTEEN CENTS ON THE DOLLAR shows the scores of setbacks that have held this gap in place—from enslavement, redlining, and banking discrimination to, ultimately, failures that occurred in the mid-2020s as the push for racial equity became a polarized political debate.

“An eye-opening look at how the wealth gap between Black Americans and the white majority grows ever wider…In the end, by the authors’ calculus, the 15 cents of the title isn’t hyperbolic: A gap already known to be vast takes on the contours of the Grand Canyon. An important book that should inform conversations about equity at every level.”
—Kirkus Reviews

#OnShelvesNow: BACK ROADS AND BETTER ANGELS, a tho

#OnShelvesNow: BACK ROADS AND BETTER ANGELS, a thought-provoking journey into the heart of our democracy and the soul of our country by Bloomberg columnist and former speechwriter Francis S. Barry.

A year into his marriage and having never operated an RV, Frank and his wife Laurel set out from New York City in a Winnebago to drive the nation’s first transcontinental route, the Lincoln Highway, which zigzags through small towns and big cities from Times Square to San Francisco. Using the spirit of Abraham Lincoln to guide them across the land, they hope to see more clearly what holds the country together—and how we can keep it together, even amidst political divisions have grown increasingly rancorous, bitter, and exhausting. Along the way, Frank and Laurel meet Americans whose personal experiences help humanize the nation’s divisions, and encounter historical figures and events whose legacies are still shaping our sense of national identity and the struggles over it. This unforgettable journey is full of what makes any great road trip memorable and enjoyable: music, conversation, and laughter. By the end, readers will have a clearer picture of how we have arrived at a period that carries echoes of the Civil War era—and where the path forward lies.

“Barry probes the American soul, finding its biases, but also, nurtured by its complicated past, our better angels—with an opportunity to move forward.”
—Ken Burns

“Barry is an amiable tour guide, inserting comic interludes and personal commentary to buffer unflinching descriptions of everything from colonization to the Civil War to the pandemic and 2020 election.”
—Booklist

We are so thrilled for our amazing client @juliesa

We are so thrilled for our amazing client @juliesatow whose new book, WHEN WOMEN RAN FIFTH AVENUE, debuts on the NY Times bestseller list at #9!!

Happy #PubDay to Regina McBride’s STRANGER FROM

Happy #PubDay to Regina McBride’s STRANGER FROM ACROSS THE SEA, a moving account of intimacy, friendship, phantoms, and the “thin curtain that separates the living from the dead.”

In August 1973, after the girls of St. Dymphna’s have gone home for the summer, just two students remain at the convent in Northern Ireland: Violet O’Halloran, a rebellious New Yorker, and Indira Sharma, an enigmatic blind teenager. Their brief, devoted, cataclysmic friendship is the axis around which spins this haunting novel. Returning to the Irish setting and disquieting mysticism of her previous works, McBride tells a mysterious tale of ghosts and mirrors, friends and lovers, and family secrets. Violet and Indira form an intense bond, but tragedy severs their friendship prematurely when Indira drowns at a nearby beach. Nearly fifteen years later, back in New York, Violet finds herself swept up in a romance with an Irishman who has a surprising connection to her late friend. She soon begins to uncover stunning answers to unresolved questions about Indira’s life that build toward an astonishing final reveal.

“McBride beautifully captures the profound neediness hidden under the tempest of mothers and daughters, the delicate sensuality and haunting power of girls’ friendships, the vulnerability of adolescence, and the wish we all have to be found.” —Lisa Gornick, author of Ana Turns and The Peacock Feast

#OnShelvesNow: New York Times bestselling author G

#OnShelvesNow: New York Times bestselling author Guy Lawson’s HOT DOG MONEY: Inside the Biggest Scandal in the History of College Sports 🏀

While the FBI investigation into corruption in NCAA sports has been the subject of much conversation and scrutiny, one perspective has always been absent: that of Marty Blazer, the financial advisor turned confidential informant at the center of it all. Lawson (known for his book War Dogs) spent two years interviewing Blazer before his sudden death in early 2024. The result is a Catch Me If You Can-style look into the NCAA, the FBI investigation, and the true scope of bribery festering under the facade of amateurism. It also offers a behind-the-scenes view of the questionable circumstances of the investigation and it delves into why none of the real kingpins of college basketball were ever pursued by authorities.

“[A] propulsive true crime narrative...This thoroughly reported deep dive impresses.” —Publishers Weekly

“Lawson thoughtfully explores corruption in this excellent book…[An] evenhanded portrayal of a flawed subject.” —Booklist

Happy #PubDay to Ann Leary’s latest, I’VE TRIE

Happy #PubDay to Ann Leary’s latest, I’VE TRIED BEING NICE!

New York Times bestselling author Leary has thrown in the towel when it comes to ingratiating herself with others. Leary casts a wry backward glance at a life spent trying—and often failing—to be nice. Her essays explore everything from flunking online personality quizzes to surviving bat infestations to the mortification of learning ballroom dancing with her actor husband. She recounts, with remarkable candor and wit, red-carpet fiascos and other unique observations from the sidelines of fame, while also touching upon her poignant struggles with alcoholism, her love for her family, and so much more. Smart, funny, and surprising, the essays in I’VE TRIED BEING NICE draw on the comic chaos of Leary’s life, giving fans of her acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction a literary feast of humor and wisdom.

“This winning essay collection from novelist Leary riffs on the trifles and tribulations of her life…The humor lands and the lithe prose elevates Leary’s musings on life’s mundanities. This is a gem.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review ⭐️

“In this zany, relatable essay collection, Ann Leary explores her recent midlife epiphany: She had spent most of her life bending over backward to please others. With humor and expert storytelling, Leary looks back on her younger years to recount awkward run-ins with fans of her famous husband, recovering from alcoholism, and that time a bat (yes) latched onto her pajama pants. Her self-portrait is equal parts light-hearted and moving—an ode to agreeable personality types everywhere.” —Oprah Daily

“Running like an undercurrent to the laughs, as happens in so many of Ann's books, comes a sneaky dose of wisdom.” —People

“Everyday struggles, from marital discord to feuds with neighbors, provide rich material for novelist Leary’s thoughtful, humorous, and brutally honest essays. As relatable and refreshing as a good talk with your wisest friend.” —Boston Globe

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Happy #PubDay to WHEN WOMEN RAN FIFTH AVENUE! Awar

Happy #PubDay to WHEN WOMEN RAN FIFTH AVENUE! Award-winning journalist Julie Satow whisks readers back to a bygone era of innovation and glitz in this dazzling look at the history of fashion amid the golden age of the department store—where men may have owned the buildings, but inside, women ruled.

Though the names of these iconic stores, from Bendel’s to Lord & Taylor, are infamous, the stories of the women who ran them have been largely lost to history—until now. Satow chronicles the rise of the department store through the lens of three female powerhouses who changed American fashion forever, battling sexism and corporate hierarchies while creating new and evolving possibilities for working women along the way. As she did in her book The Plaza, a New York Times Editor’s Choice and an NPR Favorite Book of 2019, Satow pairs her love for cultural history with rigorous insider journalism. Though the stores Satow writes about were opulent and sparkling, they also became a mecca for twentieth-century women of every age, social class, and ambition, and indelibly shaped the broader national culture.

“Ms. Satow’s carefully researched book is compulsively readable: I found myself dashing through it like a novel. She portrays the women with verve; we get a glimpse into their lives, as well as a sense of what it was like at each of these retail meccas.” —Wall Street Journal

“Julie Satow celebrates the savvy leaders who made Bonwit, Bendel’s and Lord & Taylor into retail
meccas of their moment…Clever…Considered in aggregate [Odlum, Shaver, and Stutz] are a force.” —New York Times

#OnShelvesNow: Bobi Conn’s equally beautiful and

#OnShelvesNow: Bobi Conn’s equally beautiful and heart-rending new novel SOMEPLACE LIKE HOME. The book explores origin stories, life in Appalachia, the fraught nature of memory, and the ripple effect of trauma through generations.

Conn’s 2020 memoir In the Shadow of the Valley recounted her upbringing in rural Kentucky with unvarnished honesty—from the boundless beauty of her family’s holler to the horrific violence of her abusive, addicted father. Its publication led Conn into a surprising dialogue with her mother and to a desire to give voice to this woman she had so long struggled to understand. SOMEPLACE LIKE HOME is the result: the novel is inspired by Conn’s mother’s story and brings the reader to the outskirts of Morehead, Kentucky, alongside three generations of resilient women.

“At times heartbreaking, at others heartwarming, this story is an ode to the women not of a particular time but of a particular place, and Bobi Conn shares it all with style and care.”
—R. Dean Johnson, author of Californium

“[A] fictionalized account of the lives of her grandmother and mother, detailing the remarkable circumstances they endured in a fierce, isolated, often traumatic environment that was, at the same time, possessed of a wild and staggering beauty. Conn is among the most moving and talented of our Appalachian authors. It was an honor to read this book.” —Dr. Kimmery Martin, author of Queen of Hearts and Doctors and Friends

#OnShelvesNow: TITS UP, bestselling author Sarah T

#OnShelvesNow: TITS UP, bestselling author Sarah Thornton’s captivating study of the intimate secrets and surprising insights that women have about their breasts, combined with sustained observation of five strategically chosen contexts.

With an eye for absurdity and double standards, Thornton started researching the stories of TITS UP after she lost her breasts to the threat of cancer. An ethnographer by training, Thornton came to grips with her predicament the way she knows best: through investigative interviews with fascinating subject experts. In TITS UP, Thornton takes her readers behind the scenes on a journey through five distinct worlds: the strip club, the human milk bank, the plastic surgeon’s operating room, the bra design studio, and finally into the forest for a pagan retreat with body-positive “crones” and “witches.” Blending sociology, reportage, and personal narrative, Thornton connects her revealing case studies to broader concepts of bodily autonomy, gender equality, racial politics, and desire. Along the way, she debunks persistent myths, reveals astounding truths, and unpacks women’s rights in ways that the American feminist movement has historically avoided.

“[An] impassioned polemic…Enlightening…Deceptively trenchant.” —New York Times Book Review

What a treat to work with the brilliant and deligh

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!

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Shreve Williams

1 week ago

Happy #PubDay to FENTANYL NATION, an urgent and informative examination of America’s failed war on drugs from recovery advocate Ryan Hampton.The American overdose crisis has reached record-breaking heights; preventable overdoses are now responsible for more annual deaths than traffic accidents, suicide, or gun violence. Fentanyl—a potent, inexpensive, and easy-to-manufacture synthetic opioid—has thoroughly contaminated the drug supply, and while it frequently makes front page news across the country, it remains poorly understood by policymakers and the public. Why, despite all of our efforts to raise awareness and billions of dollars of investments, does this emergency keep getting worse? In FENTANYL NATION, Hampton separates the facts from the fiction surrounding fentanyl, and shows how overdose deaths are ultimately policy failures. Instead of investing in education, harm reduction, effective treatment, and recovery, we have doubled down on more police, more incarceration, and harsher penalties for those caught in the grip of addiction. Yet history has shown time and time again that it is impossible to arrest our way out of a public health crisis; the government used the same strategy to fight the crack-cocaine epidemic of the eighties and nineties, and it only resulted in racially disparate policing and the destruction of marginalized communities. At a critical moment, this manifesto reveals how prejudice, discrimination, and stigma have been codified into our drug laws, and calls for a compassionate and evidence-based approach that would address the core causes of addiction and save countless lives. Hampton writes that we can end this crisis, but only if we get out of our own way.“Ryan Hampton’s voice and advocacy is needed now more than ever. People need compassion and pragmatic solutions, not toxic stigma and criminalization.”—Elton John, founder, Elton John AIDS Foundation ... See MoreSee Less

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Shreve Williams

3 weeks ago

#OnShelvesNow: THE SECOND FIFTY, an indispensable new look at the second half of life from AARP chief public policy officer Debra Whitman. Over the last century, Americans have gained decades of life. Many of us may live beyond one hundred, a prospect that offers exciting possibilities but also raises crucial questions. When Debra Whitman—a globally recognized expert on aging—was approaching her fiftieth birthday, she began to wonder what was in store for her own later years. Suddenly, the questions she’d long been studying became personal. Now, in THE SECOND FIFTY, Whitman explores some of the most pressing concerns for Americans today: How long will I live? Will I be healthy? Will I lose my memory? How long will I work? Will I have enough money? Where should I live? And how will I die? Expanding on the Second Half of Life Study, a groundbreaking research initiative Whitman spearheaded at AARP in collaboration with National Geographic, THE SECOND FIFTY draws on people’s everyday experiences and the expertise of demographers, neuroscientists, and geriatricians. Thorough, optimistic, and actionable, this book is an essential roadmap to achieving a universal desire: to enjoy our whole lives.“Getting old is not for the faint of heart, but this lucid guide by Whitman, chief public policy officer for the AARP, will help many readers along the path…[An] essential reference on dealing with aging.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review ⭐️ ... See MoreSee Less

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Shreve Williams

3 weeks ago

Happy #PubDay to WHO COULD EVER LOVE YOU, Mary L. Trump’s intimate and exceptional family memoir.A New York Times nonfiction fall pick and a People magazine best book of September, WHO COULD EVER LOVE YOU is a much-anticipated new offering from the bestselling author of Too Much and Never Enough. Here Mary Trump moves beyond the lens of her previous works to share her own personal story of growing up in a family divided by its patriarch’s relentless drive for money and power. The daughter of Freddy Trump, the highly accomplished, dashing eldest son of wealthy real estate developer Fred Trump, and Linda Clapp, a flight attendant from a working-class family, Mary lived in the shadow of Freddy’s humiliation at the hands of his father. Written with signature candor, lucidity, and insight, WHO COULD EVER LOVE YOU is an unforgettable account of a broken family, a painful childhood, and one woman’s determined survival. “Unsparing…Engrossing…Franker than she’s ever been about the emotional toll her family’s savagery took on her.” —Los Angeles Times“Devastating and beautifully painted.” —People ... See MoreSee Less

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4 weeks ago

#OnShelvesNow: STILL LIFE AT EIGHTY, a new memoir from the novelist, critic, essayist, screenwriter, teacher, traveler, and art aficionado Nicholas Delbanco. Here Delbanco has compiled a mosaic of his life as he glances backward and forward from the vantage point of his eightieth year. In episodic riffs, STILL LIFE AT EIGHTY revisits seven houses where Delbanco welcomed a panoply of literati, including Mary Ruefle, Mary Lee Settle, Mary Robison, John Ashbery, John Cheever, John Irving, and John Updike. With his homes serving as a receptacle of memory, he recalls his friendships with the likes of James Baldwin, Grace Paley, Frederick Busch, Donald Barthelme, and Russell Banks. STILL LIFE AT EIGHTY is saturated with artistic appreciation; the grandson of collectors (whose paintings were plundered by the Nazis), nephew of a London gallerist, son of an accomplished painter, and a collector himself, Delbanco summons his reminiscences of art, artifacts, and artists as he pivots from a youthful artistic apprenticeship to become a prolific professional writer.“A triumphant, wise, and elegant memoir that beautifully explores the experience of aging, the joy of life, the inevitability of its end, and Delbanco’s remarkably influential journey through the arts.” —Charles Johnson, author of Middle Passage ... See MoreSee Less

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1 month ago

#OnShelvesNow: IN OUR LIKENESS, a prescient and intriguing debut novel from writer and digital strategist Bryan VanDyke.The current onslaught of new technologies and algorithms bend our reality and twist our sense of morality, forcing us to recalibrate our decisions over and over. Into this liminal space enters VanDyke, who draws on his experience working in tech as he interrogates our new age of artificial intelligence. As protagonist Graham Gooding helps his brilliant colleague—and crush—Nessie test out an algorithm that detects lies on the internet, he is shocked to find he can use it to edit reality. And when this newfound power ends up in the hands of their enigmatic and volatile boss, Graham and Nessie come together to navigate a constantly changing sense of reality—one that only they know is shifting. VanDyke’s thrilling novel brings humor and horror to a New York City rendered dystopian by an evolving AI technology. Along the way, he considers profound questions about reality, memory, trust and identity.“Elon Musk and other technologists have occasionally wondered if we might all be living in an alternate world created by AI. Bryan VanDyke has written a brilliant novel that takes us into that world in a compelling and clever way. A total triumph.”—Fareed Zakaria, CNN journalist and author of Age of Revolutions ... See MoreSee Less

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