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  • PRE-ORDER: Sleep Well: A Science-Backed Guide for Perimenopause, Midlife, and Beyond
    $28.00

    Take back your sleep during perimenopause, menopause, and beyond with this evidence-based guide from a co-founder of Canada’s premier clinic for women’s health—founded by women, for women.

    Is it any wonder you can’t sleep? You’re juggling work, family, aging parents, endless responsibilities, and the invisible mental load so many women carry. Then midlife hits, and sleep—the very thing you need most—starts to unravel. You wake up overheated, anxious, aching, or restless, staring at the clock at 3 a.m., wondering what happened to the woman who used to sleep just fine. If this sounds familiar, you are not imagining it, and you are not alone.

    But it doesn’t have to be this way. This groundbreaking guide from respirologist and sleep medicine physician Dr. Woganee Filate cuts through generic sleep advice to address what’s really happening in your body during perimenopause and menopause. You’ll discover why conventional sleep wisdom falls short for women in midlife, and learn practical, science-backed strategies designed specifically for your changing hormones and life stage. Inside, you’ll find:

    * Evidence-based techniques to manage night sweats and hot flashes
    * Valuable analysis of overlooked sleep disorders that commonly emerge in midlife
    * Tools to quiet racing thoughts and ease the mental load keeping you awake
    * Sleep routines that fit your demanding schedule
    * Real solutions for the unique challenges facing midlife women

    Written by an expert who understands the intersection of women’s health, hormones, and sleep science, this isn’t just another sleep book—it’s your personalized audit for reclaiming the restorative rest you deserve. Your best years are ahead of you. And they start with a good night’s sleep.

  • PRE-ORDER: Too Perfect to Die
    $20.99

    "Bring It On", but with murder, this heart-pounding YA thriller follows Jonty, a star cheerleader forced to track down a killer and achieve her dream―before it's too late.

    With competition this fierce, bodies are bound to hit the mat...

    All Jonty has ever wanted is to lead her cheerleading team, The Exalted Ones, to win a NCA championship. Cheer is not just a sport, it’s her legacy. Her mother cheered for T.E.O. before she died, and Jonty would do anything to snatch the crown and honor her mother’s memory. This year she has a real shot, finally beating her rival Tommie and becoming the team captain.

    But Jonty’s perfect season is shattered when Tommie shows up dead on the first day of practice. Now the team is down a flyer and everyone is convinced that Jonty killed her. Everyone except Adam, her co-captain, who was with her the night that Tommie died.

    As the season progresses, girls keep dropping like flies, and one thing becomes clear: Someone is sabotaging The Exalted Ones, and they're willing to commit murder to get their way. But with the police still convinced it’s her, will Jonty be able to save herself, her team, and her perfect season?

    Tense and full of twists, Too Perfect to Die is perfect for readers who love:
    • True Crime
    • Competitive Cheerleading
    • Scream Queens
    • Holly Jackson Books
    • Karen M. McManus Books

  • PRE-ORDER: Yoruba Mythology: Stories of the Orisa from West Africa and the Diaspora
    $45.00

    The first major work of Yoruba mythology, retelling hundreds of traditional tales of the Orisa, Yoruba Heroes, and Ijapa from West Africa, Cuba, and Brazil.

    Yoruba mythology is sacred to the religion and culture of the Yoruba people. A primarily oral tradition, its stories revolve around Olodumare, the Supreme Being, and a vast number of divinities or orisa, who govern all aspects of human life and nature.

    Yoruba Mythology is, to date, the most comprehensive published collection of more than 300 myths of this ancient, profound, and beautiful storytelling tradition. Authors Ayodeji Ogunnaike and Oludamini Ogunnaike are uniquely qualified to impart these stories, having spent decades learning, collecting, and studying them. Many are remembered from their own childhood, while many more are the result of yearslong research and encounters with practitioners and elders in and from Nigeria, Cuba, and Brazil.

    Alongside the myths of the orisa, the Ogunnaikes also include dozens of mythos of more cultural significant, such as the founding of Yoruba kingdoms, stories of heroes and other powerful beings, and classic fables. The final section is dedicated to the beloved Ijapa, the Yoruba trickster tortoise whose cunning and greed always land him trouble, but whose stories impart valuable lessons about honesty, perseverance, and character.

    The book is made complete with stunning art by Data Oruwari, whose work brings the myths and characters to life in a manner that evokes traditional depictions of the orisa in West Africa and the diaspora.

    A gift to both those familiar with Yoruba culture and religion and those who are encountering them for the first time, Yoruba Mythology is an important and long-awaited contribution to the mythological canon.

  • PRE-ORDER: The Real Domestic Product: How Birth Control Built Equality (and Why the Future of the Economy and the Planet Depends on It)
    $29.95

    An urgent and clear-eyed look at the battle over reproductive control in our tipping-point moment—and how to forge a path forward.

    Birth control, which includes contraception, abortion access and more, has not only enabled women to enter civic life in significant numbers for the first time, but it has also expanded our democracy and grown our economy. While many embrace these changes, which aim to share the nation’s economic bounty among all Americans, those who see themselves as benefiting from the old hierarchies do not. They resist this progress with divisive rhetoric condemning “woke”-ness in anything they find threatening.

    In The Real Domestic Product, fertility researcher Elizabeth Gregory argues that our battles over abortion and LGBTQ bans and pronatalism are economic at base—that conservatives seek to push women out of civic life through forced childbearing. Their goal? To maintain their discount on domestic labor and a steady supply of low-wage workers. But, she contends, this shortsighted approach overlooks the huge benefits that a caring democracy can engender for our economy and for our fragile planet.

    By connecting the dots among fertility patterns, economics, climate change, equitable work, expanding longevity, and the rising status of formerly excluded groups, the author counters reactionary narratives, adding depth and perspective to the incomplete national conversations we’ve had to date. Never more urgently needed, The Real Domestic Product envisions the way forward to an economy of care for our planet and our people.

  • PRE-ORDER: The Inheritance: A Novel
    $30.00

    Percival Everett meets Sinners in this gripping, haunting novel of history, rebellion, and the unpredictable nature of truth

    When antiquarian Malcolm Washington is sent to a decaying plantation home on Johns Island, South Carolina, his mission is simple: authenticate and acquire a shackle rumored to have been used on Denmark Vesey, the legendary leader of a thwarted slave rebellion. But the task proves far more complicated than Malcolm could have imagined. The shackle’s owner, the enigmatic Mrs. Manigault—the last white woman on the island—is having second thoughts about selling her inheritance.

    What begins as a professional assessment quickly spirals into a tense battle of wits, as Mrs. Manigault insists on telling the “story” behind the shackle, one she was told as a child, which grows more fantastical at every turn. Each part of the tale is both a weapon and a test, crafted to manipulate, conceal, and ultimately reveal the buried truths of the past. Trapped between Mrs. Manigault’s manipulative storytelling and his own complicated motivations, Malcolm must come face-to-face with his own past.

    Sweeping, suspenseful, and acidly funny, The Inheritance blends contemporary Southern Gothic and literary mystery to delve into the heart of America’s unresolved past, where the search for the truth uncovers secrets both liberating and terrifying.

  • PRE-ORDER: Thich Nhat Hanh 2027 Day-to-Day Calendar: Touching Peace
    $17.99

    From the "father of mindfulness,” the Thich Nhat Hanh 2027 Day-to-Day Calendar offers wise inspiration from the beloved Buddhist monk on cultivating a life with more joy and meaning. 

    Accompanied by tranquil watercolor paintings of foliage and animals by contemporary artist Marisol Ortega, every daily page features a quotation from one of Thich Nhat Hanh's beloved books, such as How to Love and No Mud, No Lotus.
     
    Features include:

    * No single-use plastic
    * Page size 5.354" x 4.488"
    * Box size 5.906" x 1.339" x 5"
    * Recyclable chipboard easel backer for desk or tabletop display
    * Printed on FSC® certified paper with soy-based ink
    * Full-color tear-off pages
    * Back of pages are blank for notes or shopping lists
    * Day/Date reference on each page
    * Combined weekend pages
    * Official major world holidays and important observances of the world's major religions
    * Moon phases, based on Universal Time
    * Wisdom from Thich Nhat Hanh, Buddhist monk and bestselling author of The Miracle of Mindfulness and The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching
    * WE PLANT TREES to help offset our carbon footprint and resource usage — more than 1.25 MILLION and growing!
    * RESPONSIBLY SOURCED — Our paper is responsibly sourced from a combination of recycled materials and wood harvested from socially and environmentally sustainable forests and is FSC® certified.

  • PRE-ORDER: Goliath: A Novel
    $29.00

    A young Black man feels called irresistably to farmland he's never seen, where a fateful feud simmers between a pastor and his protégé. A thunderous instant classic, this novel reimagines David and Goliath as the story of one unforgettable family, living in the era of the Great Migration and in the heart of the American South.

    "PLEASE READ THIS MASTERPIECE." —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy

    In 1910, at the tender age of fourteen, David Jeremiah Lightfoot inherits his father’s farm in Mississippi: a barren, cursed plot of land once known as Goliath. David has never lived outside Chicago, but he is determined to claim and farm the land more effectively than his father ever could. Once there, David confronts both literal and figurative giants. And soon a high-stakes struggle with the burden of his ancestors’ legacy will intertwine his fate with that of his family, the land, and the surrounding community.

    Narrating this saga is David’s youngest son, Little Bit, a uniquely sensitive storyteller with immense love for his parents, his grandfather Big Man, his uncle Jonathan, his cousin, and his brothers and sister. Little Bit charts the dramatic twists and turns of his father's rise to a precarious pinnacle of wealth and power, studded as it was with quiet moments of sweetness, joy, and transcendent beauty.

    At once a profound, heartfelt story about one tight-knit family and an elegant, propulsive tragedy, Goliath weaves together themes of destiny and redemption. It is a revelatory meditation on the deep, troubled ties between Black Americans and the very ground on which past generations toiled and lived.

  • PRE-ORDER: National Museum of African American History and Culture 2027 Wall Calendar
    $16.99

    Featuring art by some of the most important and well-collected Black artists whose work is a part of the vast and storied collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

    The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) 2027 Wall Calendar features twelve works from the museum’s collection. NMAAHC is part of the Smithsonian Institution, and the museum holds over 40,000 objects in its collection related to subjects such as community, family, the visual and performing arts, religion, civil rights, slavery, and segregation.
     

    * The perfect gift for history buffs and African American culture mavens alike!
    * Printed on high-quality FSC-certified paper
    * Includes all major and significant holidays and moon phases
    * Carefully curated images throughout
    * Give as a gift for any occasion
    * Perfect to hang in the home or office
    * Generous grids for adding appointments and reminders
    * Opens to 12 inches x 24 inches

  • PRE-ORDER: Good, God: A Creation Story
    $29.00

    A gutting and powerful new memoir from a master of the form, Good, God probes Laymon's relationships with three generations of women in his life—his grandmother, his former partner, and his unborn daughter.

    When Kiese Laymon’s former partner invites him to help her create a child in the age of Trump, Laymon must reckon with how a romanticization of good, God, Mississippi, and most importantly, his grandmother, have telegraphed the kind of friend, father, and artist he can be. If Laymon's grandmother is right when she says, "God been gone," how does one actually make anything good in America? Laymon continues his courageous, wide-open approach to memoir with Good, God, a literary attempt at heeding his grandmother’s plea to revise the Ten Commandments, while making more intentional the paradoxical intimacy and brutality inherent between readers and writers of contemporary memoir.

    Spanning from childhood to the present, set against the last fifty years of specific American hospitality, when "much of the nation said we were good for nothing, godless people who should be happy to be invited into white American rooms, and white American myths we actually made possible,” Laymon refuses to cede the shape or sound of those rooms to the worst of himself, and the worst of the nation. Good, God is a resonant plea for more good, more god, and most importantly, more holy creative space where we might ruggedly remake what we have collectively made so wrong.

    Delivered through several powerful episodes—a memorable childhood meeting with a mysterious stranger who irritates his grandmother, a visit to his grandmother's house by a kind Northern white family who first meets his grandmother in his books, the process of trying to create a child with his good friend as he is treated for cancer—Good, God invites us into the intentionally forgotten rooms and spaces of experience where good, God, and American grandmothers are made holy.

  • PRE-ORDER: Bringing Wreck: Megan Thee Stallion, Monica Roberts, and Other Houston Hurricanes (American Music Series)
    $26.95

    A whirling exploration of how Megan Thee Stallion inspires Black women and femmes like the late Monica Roberts, framed by the storm-making work of both.

    While rap megastar Megan Thee Stallion needs no introduction, fewer will be familiar with Monica Roberts, a Houston journalist, community historian, and trans activist with the popular blog TransGriot. Though the two women never met, their work has inspired Black LGBTQ+ activists to love, resist violence, speak truth to power, and dance like life depends on it. With a written energy that’s infectious, Omise’eke Tinsley highlights just how intertwined these artists are.

    An incisive look at the impactful sisterhood between Black women and femmes, Bringing Wreck is a book of empowerment. From Megan’s first performance on Saturday Night Live calling to “Protect Black Women,” to Roberts’s use of Hurricane Hanna to poke fun at Donald Trump’s border wall, Tinsley digs into the world-changing power of disruption and joyful expression in the face of racial injustice, anti-trans and queer violence, mental health crises, and community disparities. Reveling in both women’s love of Houston, calling-out of gendered violence, penchant for political humor, and staunch mental health advocacy, Bringing Wreck is an ode to the Bayou City, Black music, and the difference that one woman’s voice can make when we listen carefully.

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