The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore by Evan Friss. Friss draws on oral histories, archival collections, municipal records, diaries, letters and interviews with leading booksellers to offer a look at this institution beloved by so many.
Viking | ISBN: 9780593299920; $30
Don’t Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering by Joseph Nguyen. Nguyen helps readers discover the root cause of all psychological and emotional suffering and how to achieve freedom of mind to effortlessly create the life you’ve always wanted.
Authors Equity | ISBN: 9798893310153; $15
On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything by Nate Silver. Silver takes readers behind the scenes from casinos and venture capital firms to the FTX inner sanctum and meetings of the effective altruism movement for an all-access journey into a hidden world of power brokers and risk-takers.
Penguin Press | ISBN: 9781594204128; $35
Prescription for Pain: How a Once-Promising Doctor Became the “Pill Mill Killer” by Philip Eil. The Providence journalist’s book is based on 12 years of investigative work into Paul Volkman, who is serving four consecutive life sentences in prison for being the central figure in a massive “pill mill” scheme in southern Ohio.
Steerforth | ISBN: 9781586423827; $30
The Second Fifty: Answers to the 7 Big Questions of Midlife and Beyond by Debra Whitman. Whitman presents practical steps we can take to help create a better second 50 for ourselves. She also calls for urgently needed changes that would make it easier for every American to enjoy a vital and meaningful second half of life.
W. W. Norton & Co. | ISBN: 9780393867657: $30
Surrounded by Idiots: The Four Types of Human Behavior and How to Effectively Communicate with Each in Business (and in Life) by Thomas Erikson. Erikson offers a ground-breaking method for assessing the personalities of people we communicate with based on four personality types – red, blue, green and yellow – and provides insights into how we can adjust the way we speak and share information.
St. Martin’s Essentials | ISBN: 9781250179944; $17