Your brain was built to keep growing, adapting, and making new connections — no matter your age.Learn Something New is an encouraging, practical guide for adults over 55 who want to stay mentally active, curious, and confident through lifelong learning. Instead of treating aging as a time to slow down, this book shows how new skills, creative challenges, hobbies, and meaningful experiences can support memory, focus, confidence, and long-term cognitive wellbeing.Inside, you'...

Better sleep can do more than help you feel rested — it can support memory, mood, focus, and overall brain health as you age.Sleep and the Aging Brain is a practical and reassuring guide for older adults who want to understand the powerful connection between sleep and cognitive wellbeing. Written in a clear, accessible style, this book explains how sleep changes over time, why rest matters for memory and emotional balance, and how small improvements to daily and nightly routines ca...

Memory Made Easy offers a comprehensive, evidence-based program designed for adults aged 55 and older Memory changes can feel frustrating, but they do not have to leave you feeling powerless. With the right habits, strategies, and daily routines, you can support your memory, strengthen your focus, and feel more confident in everyday life.Memory Made Easy is a practical and encouraging guide for adults over 55 who want to better understand how memory works and what they can do to su...

A healthier mind is not only about memory and focus — it is also about mood, confidence, connection, and emotional balance.Mind and Mood After 60 is a practical and reassuring guide for adults who want to better understand the connection between emotional wellbeing and cognitive health in later life. Written in a clear, supportive style, this book explores how stress, low mood, anxiety, loneliness, sleep, social connection, and everyday habits can influence how the brain feels and ...

Voices from the Block - Celebrating 25 years of Black literature!In 1996, when the Writer’s Block was founded, Black writers, members of “the block” began contributing to the legacy of written works that stamped our existence, cradled our culture, and fortified our souls.The legacy continues with the 25th anniversary edition of Voices from the Block!In this collection, you will experience poems, short stories, essays, novel starts, and more – all lovingly crafted fr...

Kate Mitchum, Leanne LeDeaux, and Kathy Jonesthree little girls, growing up in Saint Elizabeths Orphanage in New Orleans, Louisiana, were as close as any friends could be. That is, until just before Christmas when they were nine years old. Turning points can come when you least expect them, as Kate Mitchum finds out as a child and later as an adult. She is smart and she is strong and she has the love and support of her friends and family at Saint Elizabeths as she faces lifes continuous st...

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award • Winner of the Orange Prize • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21****st Century""Bel Canto is its own universe. A marvel of a book."" —Washington Post Book WorldNew York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett’s spellbinding novel about love and opera, and the unifying ways people learn...

From New York Times bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons comes a bittersweet and finely wrought story of friendship, family, and Charleston society.At twelve, Emily Parmenter knows alone all too well. Left mostly to herself after her beautiful young mother disappeared and her beloved older brother died, Emily is keenly aware of yearning and loss. Rather than be consumed by sadness, she has built a life around the faded plantation where her remote father ...

A villain virgin bookstore owner. A troublesome beauty empire princess. The summer and second chance romance neither of them saw coming.Bookstore owner and recluse Smith never meant to hurt Alice all those years ago…he just panicked. But now she’s back and their lives are intertwined again. Maybe this time round things will be different? Maybe this time round they’ll both let their guard down.A steamy enemies-to-lovers romance told in dual POV with ...

If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, O. He...

What you eat does more than fuel your body — it can play an important role in how clearly you think, how well you remember, and how supported your brain feels as you age.Eat for Your Brain is a practical, easy-to-follow guide for adults over 55 who want to better understand the connection between food, memory, focus, and long-term cognitive health. Drawing on current nutrition research and brain-health principles, this book explains how everyday food choices may support healthier a...

Feeling mentally scattered, foggy, or easily distracted can be frustrating — but it does not mean you are powerless. With the right habits and simple daily strategies, you can support clearer thinking, steadier attention, and greater confidence in everyday life.The Focus Fix is a practical and encouraging guide for adults over 55 who want to improve concentration, reduce brain fog, and better understand how attention changes with age. Written in a clear, accessible style, this book...