A hilarious, heartwarming debut novel about competitive quilting, unlikely friendships, and found family."Bursting at the seams with humor and genuinely tender, touching moments."—KIRKUS REVIEWSBetty Lou Dearden has been a member of the Ogden Quilters Association for more than twenty years when it is announced that the biggest quilting competition in the country is coming to Utah. With the clock ticking and a chance to finally beat t...

Murder…drugs…money…are they all connected? That's what Marshall Jenkins wants to find out as he takes his first case since his wife's death three months ago. But as he investigates, he starts to wonder if Jenny's death was also somehow connected. Find out as Marshall tries to discover the Memphis Connection.

Create more joy, trust, and meaningful conversation with this shared mother-son journal for boys ages 8 and up, from bestselling author and family therapist Eli Harwood, aka Attachment Nerd.Busy schedules can make it difficult to slow down and truly connect. This journal for boys and moms offers a playful, low-pressure way for mothers and sons to understand each other, celebrate what makes them unique, and build a closer lifelong bond.This guided mother-son...

China's hypercompetitive job market is stunting and distorting the lives of an entire generation. Forced into a cutthroat doom loop, the people interviewed in Involution highlight how they are pitted against their colleagues, assigned pointless or impossible tasks, and warped by hostile environments. In response to an antisocial work culture, forms of passive resistance have become endemic.Through conversations with young workers from across China, the Gonglao Collective paints a h...

Silver Granger used to be a homicide detective. Now she's a private investigator working out of a cheap office in Riverview, taking whatever walks through the door. When grieving mother Lydia Morgan hires her to find the driver who killed her daughter Cynthia in a hit-and-run two years ago, Granger takes the case because it's the right thing to do and because the rent is due.The police have nothing. Granger, through a mix of digital digging and old-fashioned legwork, traces the aba...

Militias have stormed cities around the United States and the incumbent, Dom Coronet, uses his newfound power grab to keep his residence at the White House. Larry Stevens, the president-elect is forced underground as violence, censorship and a growing divide between the haves and have-nots amplify the disparities in the New Republic.Can democracy be restored or will an authoritarian leader rewrite the established norms?S is the continuing story of R, resuming on the Day of ...

Find calm, clarity and joy in seconds with micropractice – a revolutionary, science-backed method that can deliver powerful benefits anytime, anywhere.How do we care for ourselves when life won’t slow down? This is the question that psychologist Eli Susman spent a decade pursuing the answer to at Harvard and Berkeley as he observed how too many of us think mindfulness, self-compassion and joy are only achieved through lengthy retreats, intensive meditation or hours...

'Brilliant, revelatory and erudite. Like all the best books it lets you see the familiar world in a new way' Mark Forsyth, author of The Etymologicon'Enlightening' Steven PinkerHell is other people. You are what you eat. Ignorance is bliss. Or is it?Meet Phrased & Confused, a guide to the great quotations that we just keep getting wrong. From ancient maxims like 'seize the day' to modern classics l...

When a water-logged ledger washes up in her bindery, paper conservator Clara Vance can't resist a mystery — even the kind that gets someone killed.Clara has a gift she keeps hidden under a pair of cashmere gloves: touch old paper, and it gives up everything it's been keeping. Grief. Fear. Somebody's last secret. It's cost her migraines and worse her whole life, so she doesn't go looking for trouble.Trouble finds her anyway when Oakhaven Bay's most difficult historian turns up...

This incisive and witty collection from humor writer Eli Burnstein unpacks commonly misunderstood and enigmatic quotations, revealing what they really mean—and why they still matter.Designed for the curious reader who wants to understand big ideas without the jargon, this is a sharp and light-footed stroll through the world of philosophy, literature, and language.In Phrased & Confused, Burnstein (contributor to publications including the The Ne...

Breaking the Hold of Persistent Bondage to Discover Lasting Freedom in ChristFour years after his salvation, Eli Yoder was preaching freedom while secretly still bound by the same chains he thought Jesus had already broken. The night he showed up drunk to his son's football game, he was forced to confront a question that would shape his ministry: If he was truly saved, why was he still bound?In Unbound, Eli shares his unvarnished account of what ha...

The majority of people thought all bikers, especially one-percenters like us, handled things the same. Those people would be irrevocably wrong. Our now rival MC, The Dogs of Chaos, was proof. Their club's greed outweighed the amount of honor they had for our deal. We were quick to remind them what a colossal mistake they made. I was the Vice President of the Cleveland, Ohio Chapter of the Royal Bastards MC. My cut was sacred, and I wore our colors with pride.I thought of my past da...