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...

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...

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...

'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...

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...

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...

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...

Raw. Honest. Unpolished in the best way.Unscripted is a book for anyone who feels like life didn’t go the way they thought it would — and now they’re trying to figure out what to do with the pieces.If you’ve ever felt stuck, overwhelmed, anxious, or unsure who you’re supposed to be, this book meets you right there. It’s not a lecture. It’s not a formula. It’s not a “five steps to fix your life” guide. It’s one person’s real story of fear, pressure, identity, faith, and the q...

**Rituals and practices for reclaiming your gender journey, nurturing trans joy, and coming home to your innate, embodied sacrednessDrawing from his lived experience as a trans person, his training as a gender doula, and years of leading ritual and body-based healing work, Eli Lawliet offers tools for both personal transformation and collective survival—so you can live your gender journey wholly and unapologetically**Gender Rituals is a radically inclusive guide to...

From being the only 30-game winner in more than 70 years to having the Gambino crime family order a hit for your murder, Denny McLain has surely seen it all: RICO charges from the U.S. government to touring the country as a popular musician playing on national TV and the Las Vegas strip before becoming a close jail-house friend to John Gotti Jr. I Told You I Wasn't Perfect allows the former All-Star pitcher to share his cautionary tale with generations of baseball. In 1968, McLain...