Nathaniel Hawthorne’s haunting short parables, fantasies, and fragments gathered from his private notebooks for the first time.After graduating from college in 1825, Nathaniel Hawthorne returned home to Salem, Massachusetts, where he lived with his mother and sisters for most of the next two decades, honing his craft in his third-story bedroom. During that time, he kept a series of journals, now called the American Notebooks, that became a vital taproot for his sto...

I never saw this Christmas gift coming . . .When my ex-wife lands in rehab, I get a surprise for the holidays. A seven-year-old girl who's got no place to go. I love my former stepdaughter like she's my own, but I have no idea how to give her everything she needs. In a holiday-crazed town like Christmas Falls, it seems inevitable I'll let her down.Unless I finally let go of my pride and accept help from the new director of the Holiday Hope Foundation. Mason...

Every letter of the alphabet brings a choice—and every choice shows who we are.The Flip-Flop Alphabet: A Book of Word Choices is a thought-provoking picture book that helps kids explore how actions and attitudes shape their character. Through contrasting examples for each letter, children discover that words like "Fearless" and "Foolish," "Selfless" and "Selfish," aren't just about what we say—they're about how we treat others, how we carry ourselves, and ...

Holden Nash: Was introducing myself to the insanely hot, giant of a man at the club with a formal handshake the best move? Probably not. So why, you may ask, did I do it again the very next week when I came face to face with him in the hospital while I was working? Ugh. Who knows? Probably didn't help that I pretended I didn't know who he was. Oops? It's bad enough that I couldn't stop thinking about him and our random one-off, but then I gave him my number—so he could tex...

**A New York Times Most Anticipated Nonfiction Book of 2026National Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower, reveals how California’s Gold Rush forged the modern United States—and lit the long fuse to civil war**In January 1848, a carpenter spotted flecks of gold in a shallow stream at Sutter’s Mill in California, triggering the greatest voluntary migration in U.S. history,...

Great strategy without heart is just a plan. Great heart without strategy is just good intentions. The best leaders master both.In Strategy with a Heartbeat, Nathaniel H. Benjamin uses the four chambers of the human heart as a framework for leadership that is both rigorous and deeply human. Leaders learn to Receive what their people and data are telling them, Process it into sound judgment, Inspire a vision that gives life, and

**A New York Times Most Anticipated Nonfiction Book of 2026National Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower, reveals how California’s Gold Rush forged the modern United States—and lit the long fuse to civil war**In January 1848, a carpenter spotted flecks of gold in a shallow stream at Sutter’s Mill in California, triggering the greatest voluntary migration in U.S. history,...

History Echoes.Three artifacts hidden throughout the dimensions form the Adjunct Machina, a means to unshackle the Revenant Army; a merciless force that would hand the Kriva Rasturna control over all the dimensions.With the Kriva Rasturna already holding one of the artifacts, the race is on to locate the remaining two and stop the darkness from rising. Ethan and his coalition's best lead points them to the swamps of Alchemilla and into Helenium, a dimension well behind enem...

Every life is shaped by connection.Some are forged through love, family, and friendship. Others emerge from loss, memory, technology, chance encounters, or the choices we make in moments that seem insignificant-until they change everything. Whether they bind us together or pull us apart, the threads connecting one life to another are often invisible until we look back and see where they have led.Where Connections Lead brings together twenty-six original stories by ...

An Orthodox Christian theological defense of liberal democracy that builds on the daring Christian humanist reinterpretation of incarnation and deification (theosis) in the Russian religious philosophy of Divine-HumanityAt a time when Christianity is becoming increasingly associated with anti-liberal and authoritarian sentiment, Deifying Democracy offers a theological defense of liberal democracy grounded in the Orthodox Christian doctrine of deification (...

The Midnight Compass is an inspiring journey about chasing dreams, crossing borders, and discovering who you truly are along the way.Sometimes, finding yourself means leaving everything familiar behind.Through unfamiliar streets, distant borders, unexpected challenges, and unforgettable encounters, this journey explores the courage it takes to step beyond your comfort zone and follow a dream. Each new destination becomes more than a place on a map—it become...

He stole fire from the West and gave it to his people.They called him a savior. The world called him a supervillain.Set across eight decades—from the blood-soaked railway platforms of Partition-era Bhopal to the guarded villas of modern Islamabad—A Discourse on the Atomic Supervillain is a psychological thriller that examines the terrifying moment when patriotism becomes a license for atrocity.Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan was a brilliant metallurgist who believed his natio...