Adam Barsouk, M.D.

Adam Barsouk, M.D.’s medical journey began at a young age, when in the 2010’s he acted as his Ukrainian grandparents’ translator at the cancer clinic in Pittsburgh where they both received treatment for rare blood cancers which were, in all likelihood, due to exposure to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. After they passed, Adam knew he wanted to continue to change lives through medicine, and he started volunteering with cancer patients and in cancer research labs at the University of Pittsburgh. Working with patients, he got to translate not just Russian or Spanish, but also the complex science of oncology to ordinary people in need. He became their advocate, and he continued that advocacy by publishing articles in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Newsweek, the DailyMail, and more, and through numerous appearances on television to talk about healthcare and policy. He went on to graduate summa cum laude from the accelerated undergraduate medical program at Penn State University, and top of his class from Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. He is currently a resident physician in Internal Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where he rotates in the oncology ward and clinic.

**BETTER THAN THE CURE:**
***The Science and Stories of Why We get Cancer and How to Prevent It***
(Johns Hopkins University Press 2026)

*Better Than the Cure* aims to share the history and latest data on cancer prevention interwoven with narratives of patients that have inspired Dr. Adam Barsouk to see oncology in a new light. He’ll break down the most common risk factors for cancer worldwide, sharing historical anecdotes, the latest epidemiological statistics, and studies on the best lifestyle and public health interventions, all interspersed with patient narratives and personal anecdotes. In sharing his patients’ and his family’s stories, Dr. Barsouk gives cancer a face and prevention the urgency it deserves. While virtually every cancer prevention book on the market today focuses on a specific type of diet that people should follow to avoid getting cancer, Dr. Barsouk takes a much broader approach, dealing with a wide variety of cancer risk factors and how to avoid them practically in people’s every-day lives. Dr. Barsouk’s writing and storytelling ability is on par with Dr. Atul Gawande or even a Dr. Oliver Sachs, and he is able to relate the humanity and pain and tragedy and triumph that he has seen firsthand through the stories of not only his patients, but also his own family, and translate the science of cancer into relatable and practical every-day advice.

Joel Beall

Golf Digest Senior Writer Joel Beall covers professional golf with a focus on longform storytelling, columns, news, investigations and in-tournament coverage. He also shepherds the monthly Undercover Caddie column and has contributed to the “Normal Sport” book series. He has won multiple honors from the Golf Writers Association of America and his piece on golf and autism was named one of 2021’s best features by the Athletic. He's previously worked for FOX Sports, the Cincinnati Enquirer and WhatIfSports.com. Beall was born in Ohio but calls Connecticut home, where he lives with his wife, dog and broken short game.

**PLAYING DIRTY:**
***Searching for the Soul of Golf in the Brazen New Age of Sportswashing***
(Back Nine Press 2025)

Launched in 2022 by the $700 billion Saudi Public Investment Fund, the LIV Golf tour immediately presented the PGA Tour with a direct competitor – one with virtually unlimited funding. The PGA Tour started to bleed players to LIV Golf– smaller, less successful players at first, but eventually some of the biggest names in the sport were being lured by the enormous guaranteed money that LIV Golf could throw at them. This created a schism within the PGA Tour, and after its initial noble protestations, the PGA Tour saw it in its own best interest to merge with LIV Golf. But something larger is at play here. The issue of “sportswashing”, while still largely at the periphery of the American conversation, has been a huge topic worldwide for some time now, particularly in soccer-mad countries like England where the Saudi PIF recently bought the venerable club Newcastle United, and Abu Dhabi royal Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan has transformed Manchester City FC from an English also-ran into a perennial world soccer juggernaut. Critics say these regimes are using clubs like Newcastle and Manchester City and now the LIV Tour to embed themselves into Western culture and sanitize their images in the face of ongoing human rights abuses in their home countries. And with almost limitless cash at their disposal, it’s not a leap to begin to imagine the day when the PIF owns an NFL franchise, or even establishes its own basketball league to compete with the NBA. Joel Beall has been covering the PGA-LIV schism and merger from the start, and he doesn’t shy away from asking the big existential questions that groups like the Saudi PIF pose to the soul of the game of golf and to the notion of a level playing field in sports in general. In PLAYING DIRTY, Beall goes to the birthplace of golf– Scotland – and over the course of twelve weeks visiting many of its most storied courses and towns, re-discovers the game’s essence and the joy that draws so many millions to the game. Incorporating original reporting with his own lyrical journey across Scotland, Beall uncovers what makes the place and its people so special, and what can be learned that can ultimately save the game before it – and the notion of a level playing field itself – is swallowed whole.

Jason Bell, Ph.D.

Jason Bell, Ph.D. is a professor of philosophy at the University of New Brunswick, Canada. He has served as Fulbright Professor in Germany (at Göttingen, Winthrop Bell’s alma mater), and has taught at universities in Belgium, the United States, and Canada. He was the first scholar granted exclusive access to Winthrop Pickard Bell’s classified espionage papers.

**OPERATION SPARROW:**
***The Incredible True Story of the Spies Who Tricked Hitler and Won the War***
(Hanover Square Press/HarperCollins Canada 2026)

Three American special forces parachute into Nazi-allied Hungary in the dead of night, spring 1944. The three-man team is designed to look like the spear’s tip of an Allied invasion to help Hungary extract itself from Hitler’s grasp. The leader of the first Sparrow team is iron-jawed, barrel-chested Florimond Duke: all-American football player, big-time New York advertising executive, and knowing volunteer for a likely suicide mission, but he takes the risk because there is no one better suited for selling the Nazis on a lie. If their plan succeeds, they will be captured by the Germans, and Hitler will be fooled into sending reinforcements far from the coming Allied invasion at Normandy to counter a make-believe invasion instead of the real one. If it fails? German armor will destroy the coming Allied landing in France, and the war could be lost. But against enormous odds, Sparrow’s first stage is completely successful - the Nazis divert twelve divisions to counter the fake invasion. The next stage is Canada’s daring mission to keep Hitler’s forces pinned down - it is like Canada’s invasion at Dieppe, except an unmitigated success. Hitler was completely convinced by the plot, and the Canadian forces made him pay a high price for his mistake. Operation Sparrow was one of the most astoundingly risky and successful missions of WWII, yet its story has not been told, and Jason Bell’s *Operation Sparrow* will be the first book to tell the full story of one of the greatest yet least known operations of the war.

Jason Bell Cracking Nazi Code Holocaust — **CRACKING THE NAZI CODE:**
The Untold Story of Agent A12
and the Solving of the Holocaust Code

(Pegasus Books US 2024/HarperCollins Canada 2023)

***The thrilling true story of Agent A12, the first enemy of the Nazis***
In public life, Dr. Winthrop Picard Bell was a Harvard philosophy professor and wealthy businessman. As MI6 Secret Agent A12, he evaded gunfire and shook pursuers to break open the emerging Nazi conspiracy in electrifying 1919 Berlin. His reports, the first warning of the Nazi plot for WWII, went directly to the man known as C, the mysterious founder of MI6, and to prime ministers. But a powerful fascist politician quietly worked to suppress his alerts. Nevertheless, his intelligence sabotaged the Nazis in ways only now revealed. Bell became a spy once again in the face of WWII. In 1939, he was the first to crack Hitler’s deadliest secret code: the Holocaust. At that time the Führer was a popular politician who said he wanted peace. Could anyone believe Bell’s shocking warning? Fighting an epic intelligence war from Ukraine, Russia, and Poland to France, Germany, Canada and Washington, D.C., A12 was the real-life 007, waging a single-handed fight against madmen bent on destroying the world. Without Bell’s astounding courage, the Nazis might just have won the war.
Cracking the Nazi Code, informed by recently declassified documents, is the first book to illuminate the astounding exploits of Winthrop Bell, Agent A12.

Sara Jane Boyers

Sara Jane Boyers is a Los Angeles-based writer/editor and exhibiting fine art photographer. Her youth focus has been on books about contemporary art and poetry, critical thinking, and political activism, starting with her award-winning book LIFE DOESN'T FRIGHTEN ME, in which she married the expressive artwork of Jean-Michel Basquiat to a stirring l978 poem of Dr. Maya Angelou, and which has been hailed as a "contemporary classic."

**LIFE DOESN’T FRIGHTEN ME**
***25th Anniversary Edition***

(Abrams Books 2018)

The glorious picture book Life Doesn’t Frighten Me features the work of two legendary artists—poet Maya Angelou and artist Jean-Michel Basquiat—“a powerful exploration of emotion and its expression through the careful blend of words and art” (School Library Journal).

Dr. Maya Angelou’s unforgettable poem is matched with the daring art of Jean-Michel Basquiat in this powerful ode to courage.

Shadows on the wall
Noises down the hall
Life doesn’t frighten me at all

Angelou’s brave, defiant poem celebrates the courage within each of us, young and old. From the scary thought of panthers in the park to the unsettling scene of a new classroom, fearsome images are summoned and dispelled by the power of faith in ourselves.

Angelou’s strong words are matched by the bold vision of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose style reveals the powerful emotions and fanciful imaginings of childhood. Together, Angelou’s words and Basquiat’s paintings create a place where every child, indeed every person, may experience their own fearlessness.

This brilliant introduction to poetry and contemporary art features brief biographies of Angelou and Basquiat and an afterword from the editor, Sara Jane Boyers. A selected bibliography of Angelou’s books and a selected museum listing of Basquiat’s works open the door to further inspiration through the fine arts.

Presented as an impassioned ode to courage, the late poet Dr. Maya Angelou’s 1993 poem in this handsome anniversary edition will inspire a new generation of brave readers, no matter the challenge. Young readers will be inspired by poetry, by art, and by the tremendous talent of these two legendary creators in one beautiful picture book.

Roni Cohen-Sandler, Ph.D.

Roni Cohen-Sandler, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, nationally recognized author, and educator whose various professional roles enhance her ability to help teens, adults, and families. She has written three parenting books, the best-selling, I’m Not Mad, I Just Hate You!, the revised and updated Trust Me—Mom, A Less Stressful Approach to Mothering Teenage Daughters, and Easing Their Stress: Helping Our Girls Thrive in the Age of Pressure. She gives lectures, workshops, and keynote addresses throughout the U.S. and abroad, and frequently appears as an expert on parenting, raising teenagers, and family relationships for national television, radio, magazines, and newspapers. Through her travels, Roni Cohen-Sandler stays current with cultural trends, the most prevalent challenges teens face today, and their parents’ greatest worries and questions. What she learns about the latest technology, online practices, and teenage behavior further enriches her clinical work.

**ANYTHING BUT MY PHONE, MOM!:**
***Raising Emotionally Resilient Daughters in the Digital Age***
(Penguin Life 2022)

*Practical advice for raising authentic, self-reliant teenage girls in the age of the internet from the experienced clinical psychologist Dr. Roni Cohen-Sandler.*
It may feel as though your preteen or teenage daughter is growing up in a different universe than you did. Between smartphones, social media, and cyberbullying, the world is changing. Technology is transforming how girls identify themselves, learn, develop social skills, and communicate with the people around them. Many mothers feel as though they are venturing into alien territory, with no idea how to navigate these unprecedented situations. But the good news is that regardless of your technological skill, you are still the best person to guide your daughter through all the chaos of adolescence.
In *Anything but My Phone, Mom!*, Dr. Roni Cohen-Sandler shows mothers how to handle the modern challenges of parenting teenage girls, drawing upon dozens of interviews with teenagers and their mothers, decades of clinical experience, and her own experience raising a daughter. With clear, practical advice, she provides insights and strategies for how you can better understand your daughter and what she's going through, maintain a close and loving relationship with her, keep her safe, and help her become a resilient, capable, confident, and healthy young woman.

Other Roni Cohen-Sandler titles can be found at our sister agency, Loretta Barrett Books, Inc.

Dennard Dayle

Dennard Dayle is a Jamaican American author who lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is a graduate of Princeton University and received his MFA from Columbia University. His short fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Clarkesworld, Matchbook, the Hard Times, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. Before taking up fiction and mischief as a full-time job, he was an advertising copywriter who dangerously flirted with stand-up comedy. He teaches as an adjunct at Columbia, writes weekly humor at 1-900-HOT-DOG, and recently made the rash decision to take up skateboarding.

**HOW TO DODGE A CANNONBALL**
(Henry Holt 2025)

*A cutting, revealing caricature of the American Civil War, told through the eyes of a white teenager who joins an all-Black regiment of soldiers, for fans of Colson Whitehead and James McBride*

Razor-sharp and hilarious, *How to Dodge a Cannonball* tells the story of Anders, a white teenager who volunteers to be a Union Army flag-twirler to escape his abusive mother. In desperate acts of self-preservation, he defects―twice― before joining a Black regiment at Gettysburg, claiming to be an octoroon. In his new and entirely incredulous unit, Anders becomes entangled with questionable military men and an arms dealer working for both sides. But more importantly he bonds with the other soldiers, finding friendship and a family he desperately needs. After deploying to New York City to suppress the draft riots and to Nevada to suppress Native Americans, Anders begins to see the war through the eyes of his newfound brothers.

Dayle’s satire spares no one, whether he’s writing about Anders’s naivete and unexpected love interest, the quirks of Confederate and Union soldiers, those out to make a quick buck off the tragedy of war, or the theater of war itself (literal theater , as the novel includes a one-act play the troop obsesses over while they wait for action).

Uproariously funny and revelatory, *How to Dodge a Cannonball* is an inimitable take on which America is worth fighting for. (*Agent: Reeves Hamilton)*

Praise for How to Dodge a Cannonball

“Dennard Dayle’s second book certifies his talent. I can’t think of a wittier, more hilarious or more relevant young writer. How to Dodge a Cannonball is the great Civil War novel I didn’t know I needed, but now it is never leaving my shelf.”
―Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author of Our Country Friends and Super Sad True Love Story

“This is the Civil War send-up the American canon has been waiting for, and which today’s America, still unsure which version of itself it wants to become, so sorely needs. Dayle is one of our sharpest, funniest, and most unrelenting writers.”
―Jessi Jezewska Stevens, author of The Visitors and The Exhibition of Persephone Q

“A sharp and chaotic skewering of everything America believes about itself, told from the point of view of a young man bumbling his way through the horrors of the Civil War. Full of absurdity and humanity in equal measure, Dayle treats warfare with all the reverence and respect it deserves, which is none.”
―Jason Pargin, New York Times bestselling author of I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom and If This Book Exists, You’re in the Wrong Universe

“Dennard Dayle is an electrifying new voice, savagely funny and scarily smart.”
―Susan Choi, author of Trust Exercise and My Education

“I realized what How to Dodge a Cannonball was trying to do a few chapters in, and I scoffed at Dennard Dayle’s hubris. Everyone thinks they can write Catch-22 until they try to write Catch-22. It’s like saying you want to fistfight the sun. I respect the audacity, I just don’t think you can get up there. Here’s the crazy thing: Dayle might have done it. How to Dodge a Cannonball is Catch-22 about the Civil War, complete with all the lighthearted racial commentary you’re worried about. It’s funny, fast, insightful, it has a weird amount of heart, and it’s so dense with jokes you’ll be re-reading it for years and still be catching new ones.”
―Robert Brockway, author of Carrier Wave and The Empty Ones

**EVERYTHING ABRIDGED**
(Overlook Press 2022)

*A New Yorker Best Book of the Year, Dennard Dayle’s electrifying and wholly original collection of satirical stories create a bitingly funny portrait of American racism, capitalism, and politics.*
Framed as a reference work and inspired by the relentless technological chaos of Neal Stephenson’s *Snow Crash* and the comic absurdity of Paul Beatty’s *The Sellout*, *Everything Abridged* is a collection of satirical “entries” that offer trenchant commentary on the current state of America, combining laconic definitions for words from “abolition” to “zygote” with short fiction on topics like the state of Black America, the advertising industry, post-human law enforcement practices, Olympic speed-walking, nuclear war...and babysitting. It combines the scope and wit of *The Devil’s Dictionary* with the mordant humor of *Catch-22* and lays bare the struggle we face to keep hold of our sanity in a society collapsing into chaos and absurdity. Sprinkled in between the stories are reference entries that act as sudden punchlines to jokes you know you probably shouldn’t laugh at--reminding you that sometimes, despite everything, all you *can* do is laugh. (*Agent: Reeves Hamilton)*
**Praise for Everything Abridged**
“Hilarious … incredibly entertaining and so damn illuminating.” –*Entertainment* *Weekly*
“An exciting new author … hilarious and f’ing incredible.” –Amran Gowani, *Medium*
“A witty collection … Social commentary with a satirical twist.” –*The New Yorker*
“Truly funny stuff.” –*Vulture*

“I had no idea that writing this playful, this prescient, this radiant, this anansi could exist. If you want a glimpse at the future of literature look no further than Dennard Dayle. Books this good come around once a generation if we’re lucky and with Everything Abridged we are very lucky indeed.”

– Junot Diaz, New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“Slyly defiant and blazingly imaginative, like the best modernist literature, Everything Abridged is a powerful celebration of flaw and failure. It’s a book that revels in the timelessness of obsolescence and the freedom of powerlessness. Dayle’s a genre-shattering writer, whose wit and intellect never cease to entertain. This refreshingly original and powerfully funny collection is a debut to remember.”

– Paul Beatty, New York Times bestselling and Booker Prize-winning author of The Sellout

“Everything Abridged: Stories by Dennard Dayle:

Miscategorized. Calling this addictively book-shaped act of language subversion ‘stories’ is like calling New York City ‘buildings’
The nonstandard reference to all sorts of things it would have been disturbing to learn if you hadn’t been laughing so hard
Herald of a major new talent–what more do you need to know? Why aren’t you reading it yet?”
– Susan Choi, National Book Award-winning author of Trust Exercise

“With Everything Abridged, Dennard Dayle innovates form as much as he does content, creating a work that is funny and familiar, no matter if he’s writing about comedians from Mars, battery-powered humans, or radicalized comic book writers. Combining wit, humor, and an uncanny ability to get to the heart of what can both plague and save us, Dayle is a writer who isn’t ruffling feathers, but plucking the bird bare, and I am grateful as hell for it. Without a doubt one of the best collections I’ve ever read.”

– Mateo Askaripour, New York Times bestselling author of Black Buck

“This is one of the most useful books on the current American berzerk that I have read in a long time. Kudos, Dennard. You said what we were all trying to say while we were very (angrily) chewing on our kale salads.”

– Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story

“Funnier and smarter than pretty much everything else you’ve read in your lifetime.”

– Rivka Galchen, author of Atmospheric Disturbances and Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch

“Dayle has broken every rule to create a rollicking satire skewering American hypocrisy. A short story collection that artfully manages to be part dictionary and part joke book, Everything Abridged is a must-read for anyone who still believes humor is the fast track to truth.”

– Jessi Jezewska Stevens, author of The Exhibition of Persephone Q and The Visitors

David Edison

David Edison was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and has spent most of his life living in New York City and California. His passions include rescuing pit bulls, leveling up, and all things queer.

**SANDYMANCER**
(Tor Books 2023)

*A wild girl with sand magic in her bones and a mad god who is trying to fix the world he broke come together in SANDYMANCER, a genre-warping mashup of weird fantasy and hard science fiction.*
All Caralee Vinnet has ever known is dust. Her whole world is made up of the stuff; water is the most precious thing in the cosmos. A privileged few control what elements remain. But the world was not always a dust bowl and the green is not all lost.
Caralee has a secret—she can draw up power from the sand beneath her feet. But when she does… she winds up summoning a monster: The former god-king who broke the world 800 years ago and has stolen the body of her best friend. Caralee will risk the whole world to take back what she’s lost. If her new companion doesn’t kill her first.
*Sandymancer* is what happens when Oz meets Armageddon, with failed gods, lost magics, and murderous gigantic steel harpies. Caralee has always longed to see more of this broken world – but as she stumbles upon its secret roots, she may discover that their doomsday wasn’t quite what everyone thought.

**THE WAKING ENGINE**
(Tor Books 2014)

*Welcome to the City Unspoken, where Gods and Mortals come to die.*

Contrary to popular wisdom, death is not the end, nor is it a passage to some transcendent afterlife. Those who die merely awake as themselves on one of a million worlds, where they are fated to live until they die again, and wake up somewhere new. All are born only once, but die many times . . . until they come at last to the City Unspoken, where the gateway to True Death can be found.
Wayfarers and pilgrims are drawn to the City, which is home to murderous aristocrats, disguised gods and goddesses, a sadistic faerie princess, immortal prostitutes and queens, a captive angel, gangs of feral Death Boys and Charnel Girls . . . and one very confused New Yorker.
Late of Manhattan, Cooper finds himself in a City that is not what it once was. The gateway to True Death is failing, so that the City is becoming overrun by the Dying, who clot its byzantine streets and alleys . . . and a spreading madness threatens to engulf the entire metaverse.
Richly imaginative, David Edison's *The Waking Engine* is a stunning debut by a major new talent.

Gabe Henry

Gabe Henry is a New York-based writer, editor, and former manager of the Brooklyn comedy venue Littlefield.

**EATING SALAD DRUNK:**
***Haikus for the Burnout Age by Comedy Greats***

(St. Martin’s Press/Griffin Books 2022)

One of Vulture's Best Comedy Books of 2022, EATING SALAD DRUNK features work by Jerry Seinfeld, Margaret Cho, Ray Romano, Mike Birbiglia, Janeane Garofalo, Roy Wood Jr., Michael Ian Black, Bob Odenkirk, George Wallace, Maria Bamford, and other titans of comedy.
“I’m huge on Twitter.”
―An ancient proverb that means
Lonely in real life.
―JOEL KIM BOOSTER
Jokes and haikus have a common goal: to pack the greatest punch in the most succinct way possible. In *Eating Salad Drunk*, today's biggest names in comedy come together to do just that, with hilarious, poignant, and (sometimes) dirty haikus about living and coping in our modern "burnout age." Contributors include Jerry Seinfeld, Michael Ian Black, Aubrey Plaza, Margaret Cho, Maria Bamford, Ray Romano, Aparna Nancherla, Ziwe Fumudoh, Chris Gethard, Sasheer Zamata, Colin Mochrie, Zach Woods, and many more! Curated by Gabe Henry, author and manager of the popular Brooklyn comedy venue Littlefield, *Eating Salad*
*Drunk's* topics include:

-Modern Romance
-Friends & Family
-Screentime
-Nature Calls
-Food
-Entertainment
-The Struggle is Real
-Words of Wisdom, and
-Self Love & Loathing
The book also includes 50 super-relatable black and white drawings by *New Yorker* cartoonist Emily Flake, as well as a foreword by stand-up comedian and actor Aparna Nancherla (*Crashing, BoJack Horseman, Inside Amy Schumer*).

*Eating Salad Drunk* is the perfect gift for any fan of humor as an escape from our dystopian present.

*All author proceeds go towards Comedy Gives Back, a nonprofit that provides mental health, medical, and crisis support resources for comedians.

Andrew Dana Hudson

Andrew Dana Hudson is a speculative fiction writer, sustainability researcher, and futurist. He is the author of Our Shared Storm: A Novel of Five Climate Futures, as well as over twenty-five short stories appearing in Slate Future Tense, Lightspeed Magazine, Escape Pod, Vice Terraform, MIT Technology Review, Grist, and many more. His nonfiction has appeared in Slate, Jacobin, and others. His fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, longlisted for the BSFA, and translated into Italian. In 2016 his story “Sunshine State” won the first Everything Change Climate Fiction Contest, and in 2017 he was runner up in the Kaleidoscope Writing The Future Contest. His 2015 essay “On the Political Dimensions of Solarpunk” has helped define and grow the “solarpunk” subgenre. He is an active member of SFWA and attended the prestigious 2022 Clarion Workshop. Andrew has a master’s degree in sustainability from Arizona State University, where he is now pursuing an MFA in creative writing (fiction). He is also an Imaginary College Fellow at the ASU Center for Science and the Imagination. His research, partnering with institutions like Luleå University of Technology in Sweden, uses speculative fiction to explore the entwined social and technical dynamics of future scenarios, particularly the challenges and opportunities of decarbonization and climate repair. He often teaches, lectures, and advises on climate fiction and solarpunk, including serving as a story reviewer on Grist’s Imagine 2200 Climate Fiction Contest and teaching an online craft class with Clarion West. He has been invited to speak at top conferences and venues, such as the Museum of the Future in Dubai, Re:Publica in Berlin, and C2MTL in Montreal. He has previously worked in journalism, political consulting, and healthcare innovation. He also teaches yoga. Follow his work via solarshades.club.

ABSENCE
(Soho Press 2025)

A propulsive mystery combining the best elements of speculative fiction and detective noir, ABSENCE explores a world confronted with the new reality of Spontaneous Human Absence, or the sudden disappearance of people into thin air, never to return. With millions around the world having already “popped” out of existence, and the numbers increasing daily, humanity’s long-term survival is now in doubt. Now, Bureau of Depopulation Affairs agents Harvey Ellis and Shonda Erins must unravel a mystery that could answer the impenetrable question of where the absent go, as one day a disheveled woman with no identification appears at the sheriff’s office in the small town of Dawnville, Kansas, claiming to have returned from Absence and providing a highly-detailed description of the “life after” and a mysterious post-Absence city called Strangertown. Is she just another charlatan styling herself as a prophet, or is she really Gabby Reyes, a Dawnville teenager who popped a decade before under notorious circumstances? If true, her story holds the key to understanding humanity’s future and would give hope to the millions of people mourning the unfathomable disappearance of their loved ones – a group that also includes agent Ellis. As the agents navigate a hostile town awash in conspiracy theories with its own secrets to hide, they get closer to the answer, and agent Ellis finds himself caught between his professional skepticism and his own personal desire for the possibility of hope in a hopeless world. But as Absence begins to ravage Dawnville, the townspeople focus their ire on Gabby and the agents, and in a world where no one knows how long they have left, agents Ellis and Erins must unravel the mystery of Gabby Reyes before Dawnville explodes into violence, and before they themselves disappear. (*Agent: Reeves Hamilton)*

Ray Kurzweil

Ray Kurzweil is one of the world’s leading inventors, thinkers, and futurists, with a thirty-year track record of accurate predictions. Called "the restless genius" by The Wall Street Journal and "the ultimate thinking machine" by Forbes magazine, he was selected as one of the top entrepreneurs by Inc. magazine, which described him as the "rightful heir to Thomas Edison." PBS selected him as one of the "sixteen revolutionaries who made America." Ray was the principal inventor of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. Among Ray’s many honors, he received a Grammy Award for outstanding achievements in music technology; he is the recipient of the National Medal of Technology, was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, holds twenty-one honorary Doctorates, and honors from three U.S. presidents. Ray has written six national best-selling books, including New York Times best sellers The Singularity Is Nearer (2024), The Singularity Is Near (2005), and How To Create A Mind (2012). He is Co-Founder and Chancellor of Singularity University and a Director of Engineering at Google heading up a team developing machine intelligence and natural language understanding.

**THE SINGULARITY IS NEARER:**
***When We Merge With Computers***

(Viking Penguin 2024)

**AN INSTANT *NEW YORK TIMES* BESTSELLER**
**ONE OF TIME'S 100 MOST INFLUENTUAL PEOPLE IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE**
The noted inventor and futurist's successor to his landmark book *The Singularity Is Near* explores how technology will transform the human race in the decades to come
Since it was first published in 2005, Ray Kurzweil's *The Singularity Is Near* and its vision of an exponential future have spawned a worldwide movement. Kurzweil's predictions about technological advancements have largely come true, with concepts like AI, intelligent machines, and biotechnology now widely familiar to the public.
In this entirely new book Ray Kurzweil brings a fresh perspective to advances toward the Singularity--assessing his 1999 prediction that AI will reach human level intelligence by 2029 and examining the exponential growth of technology--that, in the near future, will expand human intelligence a millionfold and change human life forever. Among the topics he discusses are rebuilding the world, atom by atom with devices like nanobots; radical life extension beyond the current age limit of 120; reinventing intelligence by connecting our brains to the cloud; how exponential technologies are propelling innovation forward in all industries and improving all aspects of our well-being such as declining poverty and violence; and the growth of renewable energy and 3-D printing. He also considers the potential perils of biotechnology, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence, including such topics of current controversy as how AI will impact employment and the safety of autonomous cars, and "After Life" technology, which aims to virtually revive deceased individuals through a combination of their data and DNA.
The culmination of six decades of research on artificial intelligence, *The Singularity Is Nearer* is Ray Kurzweil's crowning contribution to the story of this science and the revolution that is to come.

**THE SINGULARITY IS NEAR:**

***When Humans Transcend Biology***
(Viking Penguin 2005)

*Publishers Weekly Starred Review*
*New York Times Bestseller*
*“Startling in scope and bravado.” (Janet Maslin, The New York Times)*
*“Artfully envisions a breathtakingly better world.” (Los Angeles Times)*
*“Elaborate, smart and persuasive.” (The Boston Globe)*
*“A pleasure to read.” (The Wall Street Journal)*
*“An important book.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer*
*One of CBS News’ Best Fall Books of 2005*
*Among St Louis Post-Dispatch’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2005*
*One of Amazon.com’s Best Science Books of 2005*
Celebrated futurist Ray Kurzweil, hailed by Bill Gates as “the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence,” presents an “elaborate, smart, and persuasive” (*The Boston Globe*) view of the future course of human development.

At the onset of the twenty-first century, humanity stands on the verge of the most transforming and thrilling period in its history. It will be an era in which the very nature of what it means to be human will be both enriched and challenged as our species breaks the shackles of its genetic legacy and achieves inconceivable heights of intelligence, material progress, and longevity.

While the social and philosophical ramifications of these changes will be profound, and the threats they pose considerable, The Singularity Is Near presents a radical and optimistic view of the coming age that is both a dramatic culmination of centuries of technological ingenuity and a genuinely inspiring vision of our ultimate destiny.

**HOW TO CREATE A MIND:**
***The Secret of Human Thought Revealed***
(Viking Penguin 2012)

*NEW YORK TIMES* BESTSELLER - The bold futurist and renowned author of *The Singularity Is Near* explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering the human brain.

**"This book is a Rosetta Stone for the mystery of human thought."--Martine Rothblatt, chairman and CEO, United Therapeutics, and creator of Sirius XM Satellite Radio**

"Kurzweil's vision of our super-enhanced future is completely sane and calmly reasoned, and his book should nicely smooth the path for the earth's robot overlords, who, it turns out, will be us."*--The New York Times*
In *How to Create a Mind,* Ray Kurzweil presents a provocative exploration of the most important project in human-machine civilization: reverse-engineering the brain to understand precisely how it works and using that knowledge to create even more intelligent machines.
Kurzweil discusses how the brain functions, how the mind emerges, brain-computer interfaces, and the implications of vastly increasing the powers of our intelligence to address the world's problems. He also thoughtfully examines emotional and moral intelligence and the origins of consciousness and envisions the radical possibilities of our merging with the intelligent technology we are creating.
Drawing on years of advanced research and cutting-edge inventions in artificial intelligence, *How to Create a Mind* is an incredible synthesis of neuroscience and technology and provides a road map for the future of human progress.

**THE AGE OF SPIRITUAL MACHINES:**

***When Computers***
***Exceed***
***Human Intelligence***

(Viking Penguin
1999)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Bold futurist Ray Kurzweil, author of *The Singularity Is Near,* offers a framework for envisioning the future of machine intelligence--"a book for anyone who wonders where human technology is going next" (*The New York Times Book Review*).

"Kurzweil offers a thought-provoking analysis of human and artificial intelligence and a unique look at a future in which the capabilities of the computer and the species that invented it grow ever closer."--BILL GATES
Imagine a world where the difference between man and machine blurs, where the line between humanity and technology fades, and where the soul and the silicon chip unite. This is not science fiction. This is the twenty-first century according to Ray Kurzweil, the "restless genius" (*The Wall Street Journal*), "ultimate thinking machine" (*Forbes*), and inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era. In his inspired hands, life in the new millennium no longer seems daunting. Instead, it promises to be an age in which the marriage of human sensitivity and artificial intelligence fundamentally alters and improves the way we live.
More than just a list of predictions, Kurzweil's prophetic blueprint for the future guides us through the inexorable advances that will result in:
- Computers exceeding the memory capacity and computational ability of the human brain (with human-level capabilities not far behind)
- Relationships with automated personalities who will be our teachers, companions, and lovers
- Information fed straight into our brains along direct neural pathways
Eventually, the distinction between humans and computers will have become sufficiently blurred that when the machines claim to be conscious, we will believe them.

**TRANSCEND:**
***Nine Steps to Living Well Forever***
(Co-Authored with Terry Grossman, M.D.)

(Rodale Books 2009)

In *Transcend*, famed futurist Ray Kurzweil and his coauthor Terry Grossman, MD, present a cutting edge, accessible program based on the vanguard in nutrition and science. They've distilled thousands of scientific studies to make the case that new developments in medicine and technology will allow us to radically extend our life expectancies and slow the aging process.

*Transcend* gives you the practical tools you need to live long enough (and remain healthy long enough) to take full advantage of the biotech and nanotech advances that have already begun and will continue to occur at an accelerating pace during the years ahead. To help you remember the nine key components of the program, Ray and Terry have arranged them into a mnemonic: Talk with your doctor, Relaxation, Assessment, Nutrition, Supplements, Calorie reduction, Exercise, New technologies, Detoxification.

This easy-to-follow program will help you transcend the boundaries of your genetic legacy and live long enough to live forever.

FANTASTIC VOYAGE:
*The Science Behind Radical Life Extension -*
*Live Long Enough to Live Forever*

(Co-Authored by Terry Grossman, M.D.)
(Rodale Books 2004)

One of the most respected scientists and futurists in America teams up with an expert on human longevity, to show how we can tap today's revolution in biotechnology and nanotechnology to virtually live forever.

Startling discoveries in the areas of genomics, biotechnology, and nanotechnology are occurring every day. The rewards of this research, some of it as spectacular as what was once thought of as science fiction, are practically in our grasp. Already it is possible to analyze our individual genetic makeups and evaluate our predisposition for breast cancer or other deadly diseases on a case-by-case basis. And once we've isolated these genes, the ability to repress or enhance them through biotechnology is just around the corner. Soon, for example, it will be feasible for 10% of our red blood cells to be replaced by artificial cells, radically extending our life expectancy and enhancing our physical and even mental abilities beyond what is humanly possible today. In Fantastic Voyage, Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman will show us how amazingly advanced we are in our medical technology, and how incredibly far each of us can go toward living as long as we dare imagine.

**DANIELLE:**
*Chronicles of a Superheroine* with
**HOW YOU CAN BE A DANIELLE**
**and**
**A CHRONICLE OF IDEAS:**
***A Guide for Superheroines (and Superheroes)***
(WordFire Press 2019)

Ray Kurzweil, legendary inventor and author of *The New York Times* bestsellers *The Singularity Is Near* and *How to Create a Mind*, unveils his first YA novel, and an unforgettable character—Danielle—to help convey some of his most important ideas.
*Danielle: Chronicles of a Superheroine* tells the story of a precocious girl who uses her intelligence and accelerating technology to solve humanity’s grandest challenges. Written as an alternative history, Danielle’s journey as a driven young girl brings her face to face with many historical figures from our modern world. Told through the eyes of Danielle’s equally remarkable sister Claire, a girl adopted from Haiti after surviving the earthquake, this story shows all readers a hopeful vision of humanity’s future—and how to achieve it.
The novel features 24 graphic novel-style illustrations, one for each year of Danielle’s life, by *New Yorker* cartoonist and Ray’s daughter, Amy Kurzweil (author of *Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir*, a *New York Times* Editor’s Pick and one of *Kirkus Reviews* Best Memoirs of 2016).
Also available are two separate nonfiction companion books for *Danielle* - a literary first. *How You Can Be a Danielle* is a concise call to action, providing pragmatic, thought-provoking, and clear guidance on how readers can be inspired to emulate Danielle and help her bring about a better world. And *A Chronicle of Ideas: A Guide for Superheroines (and Superheroes)* provides Kurzweil’s—and Danielle’s—unique spin on 282 concepts presented in the novel.

Nicholas Lore & Monica S. Rose

Nicholas Ayars “Nick” Lore is a social scientist specializing in career design methodology and multiple intelligences, author, and the founder of the Rockport Institute. His methodology includes a system of step-by-step inquiry during which people achieve certainty about their unique expression of those key elements. This methodology also includes a suite of tools and inquiries to deal with the doubts, fears and uncertainties that arise. A central concept of his work states that too many people concentrate their career goals on extrinsic rewards such as high salary and prestige and unnecessarily sacrifice intrinsic values such as job satisfaction. He asserts that a well-chosen career will provide both. Lore founded the Rockport Institute in 1981. The Rockport Institute performs testing on clients to identify personality traits, personal values and talents, from which customized career suggestions are then based upon. His Rockport career design methodology asserts that traditional prescriptive career counseling, in which a client takes a personality and interest test, and is then supplied with a list of suitable jobs leaves out many factors crucial to career success and fulfillment. His answer was to develop "career design coaching," later called simply "career coaching.”

Monica S. Rose worked alongside Nick Lore for 12 years, running Rockport Institute, developing programs, and coaching clients. Monica has an additional fifteen years of professional experience in both the profit and not-for-profit world. In addition to Career Coaching, she coached and helped produce leadership programs for a global adult education company for over 10 years and worked as the Content Expert designing and writing an online career planning program called Future Plans, now part of the state of Florida’s Public High Schools’ curricula. Well over 100,000 students have gone through that program.

**THE PATHFINDER:**
***How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success*** (3rd ed.)

(Avid Reader Press 2025)

This newly updated edition of a classic bestseller is THE ultimate job-hunting guide for college grads and career-changers alike! Now you can utilize The Pathfinder’s proven and practical techniques and tools to discover exactly what career path is right for you and make it happen.

Whether you are a seasoned professional in search of a career change or just starting out, The Pathfinder can guide you toward more engaging, fulfilling work. Based on breakthrough techniques developed by the author’s award-winning career coaching organization, Rockport Institute, The Pathfinder has already helped hundreds of thousands of people custom design a career that fits their interests and lifestyle perfectly. This completely revised and updated new edition offers more than fifty self-tests, diagnostic tools, and the widely lauded Rockport Career Design Method to help you choose an entirely new career, an entrepreneurial path, or a better-fitting job in your current field.

Learn how to:
* Design your new career step-by-step: identify a realistic, attainable career where you’ll use your talents to the fullest doing something you really care about, where you’ll be successful, respected, and engaged in tasks you do well and enjoy
* Successfully deal with complacency and “what-ifs” that keep you going back to the same old uninspiring job, day after day
* Land the perfect job in a new field using personal marketing and networking (even for those who hate to network)

Comprehensive, insightful, and empowering, The Pathfinder proves that there really is a career that you were born to do, and gives you the most complete set of cutting-edge career coaching tools find it.

Peter Lovenheim

Peter Lovenheim is an author and journalist whose articles and essays have appeared in the New York Times, New York magazine, The Los Angeles Times, Parade, Moment magazine, The Washington Post, and other publications.

His book In the Neighborhood: The Search for Community on an American Street, One Sleepover at a Time, won a Barnes & Noble Discover Award and the First Annual Zócalo Public Square Book Prize.

Lovenheim holds a degree in journalism from Boston University and in law from Cornell Law School. He teaches narrative non-fiction at The Writers Center in Bethesda, MD and splits his time between his hometown of Rochester, NY, and Washington, DC.

**GIFT SHOP OF GRATITUDE:**
***A Journal to Explore the Journey of Your Life***
(G&D Media 2024)

*WRITE YOUR LEGACY…*

Visit a museum, a national park, a castle in Europe, or even the local zoo these days, and you’ll likely be directed to “exit through the gift shop.” A gift shop can be a metaphor for life. And that’s how award-winning journalist Peter Lovenheim found the inspiration for this book as a gift shop of gratitude.

Through the lens of twenty common gift shop souvenirs, you are prompted to recall and organize all the things in life you’re most grateful for. Consider the snow globes and ball caps, the T-shirts, postcards, and jewelry—and let them bring to mind the people, places, and life experiences you hold most dear.

After reading a chapter about the evolution of scented candles, what do you remember about the aroma of your mother’s cooking? Do key chains prompt memories of a friend or mentor who opened important doors for you? Does a bobblehead recall a beloved teacher or athletic coach?

This special book will surprise and delight you with the memories it evokes. Then, by journaling your answers in the Gratitude Pages to these thought-provoking prompts, you’ll create your own personal memory book.
Perfect gift for parents and grandparents to chronicle their family legacy
Evokes cherished memories that can be shared for generations
Become the co-author of this book about your own life
Create a treasured family heirloom for children, grandchildren, and those

Brian J. Morra

Brian J. Morra is a former U.S. intelligence officer and a retired senior aerospace executive. He helped lead the American intelligence team in Japan that uncovered the true story behind the Soviet Union's shootdown of Korean Airlines flight 007 in September 1983. He also served on the Air Staff at the Pentagon while on active duty. As an aerospace executive, he worked on many important national security programs. Mr. Morra earned a BA from William and Mary, an MPA from the University of Oklahoma, an MA in National Security Studies from Georgetown University, and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

**THE RIGHTEOUS ARROWS**
***(Book #2 in the Able Archers Series)***
(Koehler Books 2024)

*The highly anticipated new installment of the series #1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr calls "terrifying."*
"...delivers a story that is both realistic and riveting. Readers will not be able to put it down!" -Michael Morell, former Acting Director and Deputy Director CIA
"If you're the kind of reader who enjoys being educated and entertained through historical fiction ... this is just for you. These are wildly fascinating stories." -First Coast News, WTLV
"A cracking Cold War read!" -Ian Sanders, founder and editor of Cold War Conversations
"A fast-paced thriller centered around the Soviet war in Afghanistan. ⁣It's a wonderful piece of historical fiction!⁣" -Buddy Book Club
**WHO CAN YOU TRUST WHEN A COLD WAR HEATS UP AND CONFLICT SEEMS INEVITABLE?**
After collaborating to thwart nuclear war in The Able Archers, Kevin Cattani and his Soviet counterpart, Ivan Levchenko, developed a deep mutual respect-but in The Righteous Arrows they are working against each other. Cattani, despite serious misgivings, conducts a perilous covert mission inside a Soviet bunker and barely escapes with his life, putting himself on a collision course with Levchenko. Their ultimate confrontation comes on a battlefield during the brutal Soviet war in Afghanistan, where Levchenko issues the American an ominous warning that will echo for decades.
Foreshadowing the global war on terror, former Air Force Intelligence officer Brian Morra illuminates the stubbornly persistent rivalry between the US and Russia in this heart-stopping story of international espionage and war.

**THE ABLE ARCHERS**

***(Book #1 in the “Able Archers” Series)***
(Koehler Books 2022)

In the fall of 1983, Operation Able Archer 83 commenced, and the world came as close to the brink of nuclear annihilation as it ever had…while almost no one knew it was happening. It’s a heart-stopping true story of Cold War intelligence and espionage, and Brian J. Morra, an Air Force intelligence officer at the time, was deeply involved in those events. Now a major novel, *The Able Archers* plays out over several months from the skies of the northern Pacific to the dark alleys of East Berlin. As the two main characters – US Air Force Intelligence Officer, Captain Kevin Cattani, and Russian GRU Colonel Ivan Levchenko – alternate narrating the story, they are forced to work together to defuse a major world crisis: a massive NATO nuclear war exercise believed by Kremlin leadership to be an imminent first strike by the US. The stakes are existential, and only Cattani and Levchenko can ensure the survival of civilization and of humanity itself.

SEAMUS MULLARKEY

From the west of Ireland but now living in New York, Seamus Mullarkey spends much of his time scouring vintage newspaper articles, leafing through dusty old books, and scrutinizing scholarly databases. Seamus is obsessed with overlooked stories, forgotten aspects of world events, and quirky trivia. He is fascinated by the kind of history that you definitely didn’t learn in school. Teachers told him to “only answer what you’re asked” and “don’t go off on tangents,” but now he delights in writing about whatever he wants, and it’s his pleasure to take his readers on that journey with him.

**STRANGE AND SURPRISING IRELAND:**
***The People, the Land, the Odd & the Extraordinary***
(Ulysses Press 2025)

*Discover the magical folktales, peculiar stories, and charming figures of the Emerald Isle in this giftable book perfect for lovers of Irish culture, language, and Ireland itself.*

This captivating book takes you on a journey through the heart of Irish culture, unraveling quirky traditions, little-known myths, and fascinating stories that have shaped the unique spirit of Ireland. From fairies and mythical beasts to curious customs and age-old legends, you’ll explore the hidden gems of Irish history that often go unnoticed.

Whether you’re a lover of folklore, a history buff, or simply curious about the world’s most enchanting island, Strange and Surprising Ireland offers bite-sized tidbits, trivia, and stories sure to fascinate and enchant. Let this book be your guide to the unique and delightful world of Ireland, where every story has a twist and every tradition hides a secret. Perfect for the curious traveler, the avid reader, the trivia lover, or anyone in search of the unexpected.

MICHAEL OKON

Michael Okon is an award-winning and best-selling author of multiple genres including paranormal, thriller, horror, action/adventure and self-help. He graduated from Long Island University with a degree in English, and then later received his MBA in business and finance. Coming from a family of writers, he has storytelling in his DNA. Michael has been writing from as far back as he can remember, his inspiration being his love for films and their impact on his life. From the time he saw the film The Goonies, he was hooked on the idea of entertaining people through unforgettable characters. Michael is a lifelong movie buff, a music playlist aficionado, and a sucker for self-help books. He lives on the North Shore of Long Island with his wife and children.

**WITCHES PROTECTION PROGRAM**

(WordFire Press 2019)

*“Ghostbusters” with witches!*
Wes Rockville, a disgraced law enforcement agent, is given one last chance to prove himself and save his career when he's reassigned to a 232-year-old secret government organization, The Witches Protection Program. His first assignment: uncover a billion-dollar cosmetics company's diabolical plan of using witchcraft for global domination, while protecting its heiress Morgan Pendragon from her aunt's evil deeds. Reluctantly paired with veteran witch protector, Alastair Verne, Wes must learn to believe in both witches and himself. Filled with adventure, suspense and a rousing good time, Okon creates a tongue-in-cheek alternate reality where witches cast spells and wreak havoc in modern day New York City.

**MONSTERLAND REANIMATED**

(WordFire Press 2018)

After Monsterland has imploded, the entire world is thrown into chaos. World leadership is gone, economies have collapsed, and communications are non-existent. Wyatt must go beyond the boundaries of his small town to re-establish contact with the outside world, and alert the government about a traitor-in-chief. During his journey he discovers a new threat released from the bowels of the defunct theme park. When an army of relentless mummies, a life-sucking ooze called The Glob, and a hybrid reanimated Behemoth rise from the depths of Monsterland, who will survive?

"Another true gem of dark fantasy action/adventure by a master of the genre, Michael Okon's "Monsterland Reanimated" is unreservedly recommended for community library Contemporary Fantasy Fiction collections." - *Midwest Book Review*

**MONSTERLAND**
(WordFire Press 2017)

*“Jurassic Park” with monsters!*
Welcome to Monsterland—the scariest place on Earth. Wyatt Baldwin's senior year is not going well. His parents divorce, then his dad mysteriously dies. He’s not exactly comfortable with his new stepfather, Carter White, either. An ongoing debate with his best friends Melvin and Howard Drucker over which monster is superior has gotten stale. He’d much rather spend his days with the beautiful and popular Jade. However, she’s dating the brash high-school quarterback Nolan, and Wyatt thinks he doesn’t stand a chance. But everything changes when Wyatt and his friends are invited to attend the grand opening of Monsterland, a groundbreaking theme park where guests can interact with vampires in Vampire Village, be chased by werewolves on the River Run, and walk among the dead in Zombieville. With real werewolves, vampires and zombies as the main attractions, what could possibly go wrong?"

JAMES PAWELSKI, Ph.D.

SUZANN PILEGGI, M.A.P.P.

James Pawelski, Ph.D., is Professor of Practice and Director of Education in the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania where he co-founded the Master of Applied Positive Psychology Program with Martin Seligman. The Founding Executive Director of IPPA, he is currently leading a three-year, multi-million-dollar grant investigating connections between the science of well-being and the arts and humanities. An international keynote speaker, he has presented in more than 20 countries on 6 continents, including “Romance and Research” (TM) workshops with his wife Suzie Pileggi, M.A.P.P. He is frequently featured in the media, including the New York Times, U.S. News and World Report, and Philadelphia.

Suzann “Suzie” Pileggi, M.A.P.P. has a Master of Applied Positive Psychology degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a freelance writer and well-being consultant specializing in the science of happiness and its effects on relationships and health. Her 2010 Scientific American Mind cover story, “The Happy Couple,” was the catalyst for HAPPY TOGETHER. Suzie blogs for Psychology Today and writes the “Science of Well-being” column for Live Happy, where she is also a contributing editor. She has given “Romance and Research” (TM) workshops around the world with her husband James Pawelski, Ph.D. Previously, she directed award-winning media relations campaigns for Fortune 500 clients, worked in publicity at Radio City Music Hall and was an associate producer for HBO Downtown Productions and The Joan Rivers Show.

**HAPPY TOGETHER:**
***Using the Science of Positive Psychology to Build Love That Lasts***
(TarcherPerigee 2018)

*How do you get to “happily ever after”?*

In fairy tales, lasting love just happens. But in real life, healthy habits are what build happiness over the long haul. *Happy Together*, written by positive psychology experts and husband-and-wife team Suzann Pileggi Pawelski and James O. Pawelski, is the first book on using the principles of positive psychology to create thriving romantic relationships. Combining extensive scientific research and real-life examples, this book will help you find and feed the good in yourself and your partner. You will learn to develop key habits for building and sustaining long-term love by:

   • Promoting a healthy passion
   • Prioritizing positive emotions
   • Mindfully savoring experiences together
   • Seeking out strengths in each other

Through easy-to-follow methods and fun exercises, you’ll learn to strengthen your partnership, whether you’re looking to start a relationship off on the right foot, weather difficult times, reignite passion, or transform a good marriage into a great one.

BUILDING LOVE THAT LASTS

A 12-Part/6-Hour Online Course Based on the Authors’ Book HAPPY TOGETHER

(Wondrium 2022)

Have you ever been in love?

Falling in love is one of the easiest things in the world. The difficult part often comes later, when you're trying to stay in love. It has been estimated that nearly half of all marriages in the United States end in divorce. As it turns out, failing in love is just as easy as falling in love.

With so many stories of "happily ever after" inundating our culture, many of us have accepted the idea—from a very young age—that our primary goal in life is to find our perfect partner or soulmate, with our very own fairy-tale ending guaranteed to follow.

The value we place on idealized lifelong relationships permeates our society and creates expectations that a good start is all we need for a fulfilling relationship. But think about it: In other important life ventures such as our career or health and fitness, we understand that to succeed, we must continue to put in the time and effort over the long term. We seek further education, find mentors and trainers, and buy gym memberships. Why do we think that building a lasting, loving relationship is any different?

In Building Love That Lasts, you will access a treasure trove of secrets to sustaining healthy relationships in 12 inspirational lessons led by a married couple who specialize in positive psychology. Suzann Pileggi Pawelski is a writer, consultant, and positive psychology expert. Her husband, Professor James Pawelski, is the cofounder and director of the world's first degree program in positive psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. And while their focus is on romantic relationships, the research Suzie and James share is applicable to relationships of all kinds—including with family, friends, and work colleagues.

Zachary C. Solomon

Zachary C. Solomon spent six years as an adjunct professor of creative writing, film, and composition at Brooklyn College and Baruch College. He earned his MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College in 2015, where he was a Truman Capote Fellow, and where he studied with Julie Orringer, Dinaw Mengestu, Joshua Henkin, Jonathan Dee, Helen Phillips, and Alice Mattison. He was a finalist for the 2021 Miami Book Fair Emerging Writer Fellowship for A BRUTAL DESIGN. His short fiction has appeared in New World Writing, Green Mountains Review, JewishFiction.net, Crack the Spine, and Foliate Oak. He lives in the Hudson Valley of New York with his wife, the novelist Mandy Berman, and their daughter

**A BRUTAL DESIGN**
(Lanternfish Press 2024)

*"A superbly bizarre Götterdämmerung.”—Wall Street Journal*
*“An uncompromising portrait of the human psyche*”—Soon Wiley, author of *When We Fell Apart*
After the fascist takeover of his homeland and the murder of his parents, Jewish architecture student Samuel Zelnik thinks that he and his friends are bound for the gulag—or worse. Instead, he receives an unexpected offer of freedom working in the experimental utopian city of Duma. Awed by the city’s dramatic architecture but confused by the other residents’ strange behavior, Zelnik searches for his long-lost uncle who emigrated to Duma before him. His wanderings reunite him with Miriana Grannoff, an exiled avant-garde artist who was once his teacher. Her memorial installations hidden around the city equally enchant and repel him. And gradually, they begin to reveal a truth: Duma is not the workers’ paradise it pretends to be.
From its opening sentence, A BRUTAL DESIGN’s narrative is disorienting, ominous, and enigmatic. Its spare and urgent prose transports readers to a city with familiar contours, but with its own twisted, alien logic. As its breathless plot ratchets up the tension, Zelnik is inexorably driven toward a fate he can’t imagine or control, culminating in a frantic and shattering conclusion that offers a stark warning - art can liberate the human spirit, or it can become the artifice that makes us complicit in our own oppression. Treading the line between speculative SF and upmarket lit, A BRUTAL DESIGN presents a dark take on the classic refugee’s story imbued with the paranoia of *1984* and the existential dread of *The Stranger*. (*Agent: Reeves Hamilton)*

MARIAH STEWART

Mariah Stewart’s nearly fifty novels in print have sold over 6,500,000 copies to date with 26 landing on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller lists.

**THE HEAD THAT WEARS THE CROWN**
(Montlake 2023)

*A fortysomething woman’s ordinary life takes a royal detour in an engaging novel about embracing a family legacy and stepping up when it matters most*
Annaliese―Annie―Gilberti is a divorced South Philadelphia mother of two with a nine-to-five job when a shocking discovery turns another average day upside down: her late grandmother was the exiled ruler of a small European country, and Annie is next in line to wear the crown and restore the monarchy. The would-be grand duchess of the Grand Duchy of Saint Gilbert has vacation time coming, enough to take a quick trip to check it out.
It’s easy to fall in love with Saint Gilbert’s villagers; its mysteries (why does everyone look decades younger than they claim to be?); her family’s ancestral home, Castle Blanc (so many hidden rooms and passages!); and maybe―just a little―with the dashing Maximilien Belleme, the captain of the castle guard. Never one to walk away from a challenge, Annie steps up, determined to be worthy of the crown that’s been offered. As she, her sisters, and her children work to bring Saint Gilbert into the modern age, Annie discovers a legacy of courageous women and that no threat is too great to deny the grand duchess’s right to the throne.

The Wyndham Beach Series

**AN INVINCIBLE SUMMER**

***(Book #1 of the “Wyndham Beach” Series)***

(Montlake 2021)

***An “Amazon First Reads” selection for April 2021***
*An endearing novel of friendship, forgiveness, and second chances by New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart.*
It was a lifetime ago that recently widowed Maggie Flynn was in Wyndham Beach. Now, on the occasion of her fortieth high school reunion, she returns to her hometown on the Massachusetts coast, picking up right where she left off with dear friends Lydia and Emma. But seeing Brett Crawford again stirs other emotions. Once, they were the town’s golden couple destined for one another. He shared Maggie’s dreams—and eventually, a shattering secret that drove them apart.
Buying her old family home and resettling in Wyndham Beach means a chance to start over for Maggie and her two daughters, but it also means facing her rekindled feelings for her first love and finally confronting—and embracing—the past in ways she never thought possible. Maggie won’t be alone. With her family and friends around her, she can weather this stormy turning point in her life and open her heart to the future. As for that dream shared and lost years ago? If Maggie can forgive herself, it still might come true.

The Hudson Sisters Series

**THE LAST CHANCE MATINEE**

***(Book #1 of the “Hudson Sisters” Series)***

(Gallery Books 2017)

The first novel in New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart’s The Hudson Sisters series follows a trio of reluctant sisters as they set out to fulfill their father’s dying wish. In the process, they find not only themselves, but the father they only thought they knew.

When celebrated and respected agent Fritz Hudson passes away, he leaves a trail of Hollywood glory in his wake—and two separate families who never knew the other existed. Allie and Des Hudson are products of Fritz’s first marriage to Honora, a beautiful but troubled starlet whose life ended in a tragic overdose. Meanwhile, Fritz was falling in love on the Delaware Bay with New Age hippie Susa Pratt—they had a daughter together, Cara, and while Fritz loved Susa with everything he had, he never quite managed to tell her or Cara about his West Coast family.

Now Fritz is gone, and the three sisters are brought together under strange circumstances: there’s a large inheritance to be had that could save Allie from her ever-deepening debt following a disastrous divorce, allow Des to open a rescue shelter for abused and wounded animals, and give Cara a fresh start after her husband left her for her best friend—but only if the sisters upend their lives and work together to restore an old, decrepit theater that was Fritz’s obsession growing up in his small hometown in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains. Guided by Fritz’s closest friend and longtime attorney, Pete Wheeler, the sisters come together—whether they like it or not—to turn their father’s dream into a reality, and might just come away with far more than they bargained for.

The Chesapeake Diaries Series

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GEORGE WEIGEL

GEORGE WEIGEL, Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, is a Catholic theologian and one of America’s leading public intellectuals. He holds the William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC. From 1989 through June 1996, Mr. Weigel was president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he led a wide-ranging, ecumenical and inter-religious program of research and publication on foreign and domestic policy issues. Mr. Weigel is perhaps best known for his widely translated and internationally acclaimed two-volume biography of Pope St. John Paul II: the New York Times bestseller, Witness to Hope (1999), and its sequel, The End and the Beginning (2010). In 2017, Weigel published a memoir of the experiences that led to his work as a papal biographer: Lessons in Hope — My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II. He is the author or editor of more than thirty other books, many of which have been translated into other languages. Among them are The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God (2005); Evangelical Catholicism: Deep Reform in the 21st-Century Church (2013); Roman Pilgrimage: The Station Churches (2013); Letters to a Young Catholic (2015); The Fragility of Order: Catholic Reflections on Turbulent Times (2018); The Next Pope: The Office of Peter and a Church in Mission (2020); and Not Forgotten: Elegies for, and Reminiscences of, a Diverse Cast of Characters, Most of Them Admirable (2021). His essays, op-ed columns, and reviews appear regularly in major opinion journals and newspapers across the United States. A frequent guest on television and radio, he is also Senior Vatican Analyst for NBC News. His weekly column, “The Catholic Difference,” is syndicated to eighty-five newspapers and magazines in seven countries. Mr. Weigel received a B.A. from St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Baltimore and an M.A. from the University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto. He is the recipient of nineteen honorary doctorates in fields including divinity, philosophy, law, and social science, and has been awarded the Papal Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice, Poland’s Gloria Artis Gold Medal, and Lithuania’s Diplomacy Star.

**TO SANCTIFY THE WORLD:**
***The Vital Legacy of Vatican II***
(Basic Books 2022)

*Why the teachings of the Second Vatican Council are essential to the Church's future—and the world's*
The Second Vatican Council (1962–1965) was the most important Catholic event in the past five hundred years. Yet sixty years after its opening on October 11, 1962, its meaning remains sharply contested and its promise unfulfilled.
In To Sanctify the World, George Weigel explains the necessity of Vatican II and explores the continuing relevance of its teaching in a world seeking a deeper experience of freedom than personal willfulness. The Council’s texts are also a critical resource for the Catholic Church as it lives out its original, Christ-centered evangelical purpose.
Written with insight and verve, To Sanctify the World recovers the true meaning of Vatican II as the template for a Catholicism that can propose a path toward genuine human dignity and social solidarity.

**JESUIT AT LARGE:**

*Essays and Reviews by Paul V. Mankowski, SJ* -

**Edited and with an Introduction by George Weigel**

(Ignatius Press 2021)

Father Paul Mankowski, S.J. (1953–2020), was one of the most brilliant and scintillating Catholic writers of our time. His essays and reviews, collected here for the first time, display a unique wit, a singular breadth of learning, and a penetrating insight into the challenges of Catholic life in the postmodern world.
Whether explicating Catholic doctrines like the Immaculate Conception, dissecting contemporary academic life, deploring clerical malfeasance, or celebrating great authors, Father Mankowski's keen intelligence is always on display, and his energetic prose keeps the pages turning.
Whatever his topic, however, Paul Mankowski's intense Catholic faith shines through his writing, as it did through his life. *Jesuit at Large* invites its readers to meet a man of great gifts who suffered for his convictions but never lost hope in the renewal of Catholicism, a man whose confidence in the truth of what the Church proposed to the world was never shaken by the failures of the people of the Church.

**NOT FORGOTTEN:**
***Elegies For, and Reminiscences Of, a Diverse Cast of Characters, Most of Them Admirable***
(Ignatius Press 2021)

The world is full of interesting people, and it has been George Weigel's good fortune to have known many such personalities in a variety of fields: politics, religion, the arts and sciences, journalism, the academy, entertainment, and sports. In this collection of reminiscences and elegies, the best-selling author of the definitive biography of Pope Saint John Paul II remembers these men and women from inside the convictions that formed them.
Whether he is sketching the lives of Nobel Prize–winning scientists, major league baseball managers, princes of the Church, television personalities, or history-making political leaders, Weigel tries to understand, and help readers understand, the deep truths of the human condition illuminated by each of these not-forgotten lives.
Written with verve, insight, and an appreciation for the consequential lives that have touched his own, *Not Forgotten* fills out the autobiographical portrait that George Weigel began painting in *Lessons in Hope: My Unexpected Life with Saint John Paul II*, while offering a backstage view of some of the men and women who have shaped the turbulent history of our times.
The 60 intriguing lives that he writes about are a wide diversity of unique characters and personalities, including **Albert Einstein**, **William F. Buckley**, **Flannery O'Connor**, **Franz Jägerstätter**, **John Paul II**, **Jackie Robinson**, **Charles Krauthammer**, **Sophie Scholl**, **Henry Hyde**, **James Schall**, **S.J.**, **Dietrich Von Hildebrand**, **Charles Colson**, **Fr Richard J. Neuhaus** and many more.

**THE NEXT POPE:**

***The Office of Peter and a Church in Mission***

(Ignatius Press July 7, 2020)

*The Catholic Church is on the verge of a transition of great consequence.*
As Catholic theologian, historian, and papal biographer George Weigel notes, the next pope will probably have been a teenager or a very young man during the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965); he may even have been a child during those years. Thus the next pope will not have been shaped by the experience of the Council and the immediate debates over its meaning and reception like Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI, and Pope Francis. The next pope, Weigel writes, "will be a transitional figure in a different way than his immediate predecessors. So it seems appropriate to ponder now what the Church has learned during the pontificates of these three conciliar popes—and to suggest what the next pope might take from that learning."
Drawing on his personal discussions with John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis, as well as his decades of experience with Catholics from every continent, George Weigel examines the major challenges confronting the Catholic Church and its 1.3 billion believers in the twenty-first century: challenges the next pontificate must address as the Church enters new, uncharted territory. To what is the Holy Spirit calling this Church-in-transition? What are the qualities needed in the man who will lead the Church from the Chair of Saint Peter?
Taking lessons from the pontificates of John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis, George Weigel proposes what the Catholic leaders of the future, especially the next pope, must do to remain faithful to the Holy Spirit's summons to renewed evangelical witness, intensified missionary fervor, and Christ-centered reform in the wake of grave institutional failures, mission confusion, counter-witness, and the secularist challenge to biblical faith.

**THE IRONY OF MODERN CATHOLIC HISTORY:**
***How the Church Rediscovered Itself and Challenged the Modern World to Reform***
(Basic Books 2019)

*A powerful new interpretation of Catholicism's dramatic encounter with modernity, by one of America's leading intellectuals*
Throughout much of the nineteenth century, both secular and Catholic leaders assumed that the Church and the modern world were locked in a battle to the death. The triumph of modernity would not only finish the Church as a consequential player in world history; it would also lead to the death of religious conviction. But today, the Catholic Church is far more vital and consequential than it was 150 years ago. Ironically, in confronting modernity, the Catholic Church rediscovered its evangelical essence. In the process, Catholicism developed intellectual tools capable of rescuing the imperiled modern project.
A richly rendered, deeply learned, and powerfully argued account of two centuries of profound change in the church and the world, *The Irony of Modern Catholic History* reveals how Catholicism offers twenty-first century essential truths for our survival and flourishing.

**THE FRAGILITY OF ORDER:**

***Catholic Reflections on Turbulent Times***

(Ignatius Press 2018)

One of America's most prominent public intellectuals brings thirty-five years of experience in Washington and Rome to bear in analyzing the turbulence that characterizes world politics, American public life, and the Catholic Church in the early twenty-first century.
In these bracing essays, George Weigel reads such events as the First World War, the collapse of Communism, and the Obama and Trump presidencies through a distinctive cultural and moral lens, even as he offers new insights into Pope Francis and his challenging pontificate.
Throughout, two of Weigel's key convictions—that ideas have consequences for good and ill, and that the deepest currents of history flow through culture—illuminate political and economic life, and the life of the Church, in ways not often appreciated or understood.
Many of the chapters in this book originated in George Weigel's annual William E. Simon Lecture, which since 2001 has become a major event in Washington, D.C. They are unique in their application of philosophical and theological perspectives to the issues of history and politics,

**LESSONS IN HOPE:**
***My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II***
(Basic Books 2017)

*A preeminent authority on the Catholic Church and papal biographer describes what he learned from chronicling the life of Pope John Paul II.*
In *Lessons in Hope*, George Weigel tells the story of his unique friendship with St. John Paul II. As Weigel learns the pope "from inside," he also offers a firsthand account of the tumult of post-Vatican II Catholicism and the Cold War's endgame, introducing readers to the heroes who brought down European communism. Later, he shows us the aging pope grappling with the post-9/11 world order and teaching new lessons in dignity through his own suffering. A deeply humane portrait of an eminent scholar learning a saint, *Lessons in Hope* is essential reading for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of a world-changing pope.

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Adam Barsouk, M.D.

BETTER THAN THE CURE:

The Science and Stories of Why We get Cancer and How to Prevent It

(Johns Hopkins University Press 2026)

Joel Beall

PLAYING DIRTY:

Searching for the Soul of Golf in the Brazen New Age of Sportswashing

(Back Nine Press 2025)

Jason Bell, Ph.D.

OPERATION SPARROW:

The Incredible True Story of the Spies Who Tricked Hitler and Won the War

(Hanover Square Press/HarperCollins Canada 2026)

CRACKING THE NAZI CODE:The Untold Story of Agent A12and the Solving of the Holocaust Code

(Pegasus Books US 2024/HarperCollins Canada 2023)

Sara Jane Boyers

LIFE DOESN’T FRIGHTEN ME

25th Anniversary Edition

(Abrams Books 2018)

Roni Cohen-Sandler, Ph.D.

ANYTHING BUT MY PHONE, MOM!:

Raising Emotionally Resilient Daughters in the Digital Age

(Penguin Life 2022)

Dennard Dayle

HOW TO DODGE A CANNONBALL

(Henry Holt 2025)

EVERYTHING ABRIDGED

(Overlook Press 2022)

David Edison

SANDYMANCER

(Tor Books 2023)

THE WAKING ENGINE

(Tor Books 2014)

Gabe Henry

EATING SALAD DRUNK:

Haikus for the Burnout Age by Comedy Greats

(St. Martin’s Press/Griffin Books 2022)

Andrew Dana Hudson

ABSENCE

(Soho Press 2025)

Ray Kurzweil

THE SINGULARITY IS NEARER:

When We Merge With Computers

(Viking Penguin 2024)

THE SINGULARITY IS NEAR:

When Humans Transcend Biology

(Viking Penguin 2005)

HOW TO CREATE A MIND:

The Secret of Human Thought Revealed

(Viking Penguin 2012)

THE AGE OF SPIRITUAL MACHINES:

When Computers

Exceed

Human Intelligence

(Viking Penguin

1999)

TRANSCEND:

Nine Steps to Living Well Forever (Co-Authored with Terry Grossman, M.D.)

(Rodale Books 2009)

FANTASTIC VOYAGE: The Science Behind Radical Life Extension - Live Long Enough to Live Forever

(Co-Authored by Terry Grossman, M.D.) (Rodale Books 2004)

DANIELLE:

Chronicles of a Superheroine with

HOW YOU CAN BE A DANIELLE

and

A CHRONICLE OF IDEAS:

A Guide for Superheroines (and Superheroes)

(WordFire Press 2019)

Nicholas Lore & Monica S. Rose

THE PATHFINDER:

How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success (3rd ed.)

(Avid Reader Press 2025)

Peter Lovenheim

GIFT SHOP OF GRATITUDE:

A Journal to Explore the Journey of Your Life

(G&D Media 2024)

Brian J. Morra

THE RIGHTEOUS ARROWS

(Book #2 in the Able Archers Series)

(Koehler Books 2024)

CRACKING THE NAZI CODE:
The Untold Story of Agent A12
and the Solving of the Holocaust Code

Nine Steps to Living Well Forever
(Co-Authored with Terry Grossman, M.D.)

FANTASTIC VOYAGE:
The Science Behind Radical Life Extension -
Live Long Enough to Live Forever

(Co-Authored by Terry Grossman, M.D.)
(Rodale Books 2004)

(Book #1 in the “Able Archers” Series)
(Koehler Books 2022)