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Rising Water
The Story of the Thai Cave Rescue
2025 || Paperback || Marc Aronson || Atheneum Books for Young Readers
The incredible true story of the twelve boys trapped with their coach in a flooded cave in Thailand and their inspiring rescue—as seen in Ron Howard’s Thirteen Lives.
On June 23rd, 2018, twelve members of the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach were exploring the Tham Luang Nang Non cave complex in northern Thailand when disaster struck. A rainy season downpour flooded the tunnels, trapping them as they took shelter on a shelf of the dark cave. Eight days of searching yi...
Eloise in Paris
Book en CD
2025 || Paperback || Kay Thompson || Little Simon
It’s Eloise’s sixtieth birthday—though she’s still not a day over six. Celebrate by joining Eloise on a Parisian adventure in this storybook that now comes with a CD narrated by the brilliant Bernadette Peters!
Eloise is a very special little girl who lives at The Plaza Hotel in New York City. Find out what happens when Eloise leaves The Plaza and says bonjour to Paris in this delightful tale. Fans young and old will love this classic Eloise adventure narrated b...
Miss Morgan's Book Brigade
A Novel
2025 || Paperback || Janet Skeslien Charles || Atria Books
From the New York Times bestselling author Janet Skeslien Charles and based on the true story of Jessie Carson—the American librarian who changed the literary landscape of France—this is “a moving tale of sacrifice, heroism, and inspired storytelling immersed in the power of books to change our lives” (Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times bestselling author).
1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to...
Lifespan
Why We Ageāand Why We Don't Have To
2025 || Paperback || David A. Sinclair e.a. || Atria Books
From an acclaimed Harvard professor and one of Time’s most influential people, this paradigm-shifting book shows how almost everything we think we know about aging is wrong, offers a front-row seat to the amazing global effort to slow, stop, and reverse aging, and calls readers to consider a future where aging can be treated.
For decades, experts have believed that we are at the mercy of our genes, and that natural damage to our genes—the kind that inevitably happens as we...
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
2025 || Paperback || Oscar Wilde || Simon & Schuster
Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work.
Wilde’s classic comedy of manners, The Importance of Being Earnest, a satire of Victorian social hypocrisy and considered Wilde’s greatest dramatic achievement, and his other popular...
The Everything Essential Latin Book
All You Need to Learn Latin in No Time
2025 || Paperback || Richard E Prior || Simon & Schuster Nederland B.V.
The Everything Essential Latin Book is your perfect introduction to this fascinating language. With easy-to-follow instructions and simple explanations, this portable guide covers the most important basics of Latin.
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The Sacred Band
Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek
2025 || Hardcover || James Romm || Scribner
From classicist James Romm comes a “striking…fascinating” (Booklist) deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great’s destruction of Thebes—and the saga of the greatest military corps of the time, the Theban Sacred Band, a unit composed of 150 pairs of male lovers.
The story of the Sacred Band, an elite 300-man corps recruited from pairs of lovers, highlights a chaotic era of ancient Greek history, four decades ...
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Whispers
The Voices of Paranoia
2025 || Paperback || Ronald K. Siegel || Simon & Schuster
From a renowned scientist, a vivid and "utterly fascinating" (Los Angeles Times) exploration of the suspicion, terror, and rage that possess the mind of the paranoid.
The paranoid inhabits a different realm of being, one that tilts the world ever so slightly. Delusions and hallucinations feed on each other, flourishing with amazing speed. Locked in a new mode of thinking the paranoid views life as from a cell. In a dozen case studies Dr. Ronald Siegel takes us on a chilling but mesmeri...
The Holy Grail of Investing
The World's Greatest Investors Reveal Their Ultima
2025 || Paperback || Tony Robbins e.a. || Simon & Schuster
Tony Robbins returns with the final book in his financial freedom trilogy by unveiling the power of alternative investments. Robbins, and renowned investor Christopher Zook, take you on a journey to interview a dozen of the world’s most successful investors in private equity, private credit, private real estate, and venture capital. They share their favorite strategies and insights in this practical guidebook.
For decades, trillions of dollars in “smart money” has bee...
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The Courage to Be Disliked
The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Chan
2025 || Paperback || Ichiro Kishimi e.a. || Atria Books
“Marie Kondo, but for your brain.” —HelloGiggles
“Compelling from front to back. Highly recommend.” —Marc Andreessen
Reading this book could change your life.
The Courage to Be Disliked, already an enormous bestseller in Asia with more than 3.5 million copies sold, demonstrates how to unlock the power within yourself to be the person you truly want to be.
Is happiness something you choose for yourself? The Courage to Be Disliked p...