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JULIAN, Philip Freeman’s biography of the last pagan emperor of Rome, has just been released in audio. This accessible volume, part of Yale University Press’ “Ancient Lives” series, is also available in print and ebook.

THE COCKTAIL PARLOR: How Women Brought the Cocktail Home, Nicola Nice

” At last, a celebration of women’s roles in the invention and evolution of the cocktail! In The Cocktail Parlor, Nicola Nice looks beyond the male-dominated cocktail cannon to find the women who were there all along, brewing cordials and filling punch bowls. She uncovers a treasure trove of inventive and witty cocktail writing and recipes, by women whose names deserve to be much better known. The Cocktail Parlor is an essential contribution to the history of mixology, and a lively and entertaining conversation-starter.”
― Amy Stewart, author of The Drunken Botanist

“The Cocktail Parlor is an absolute must-buy for every cocktail enthusiast, from the curious novice to the seasoned hostess. Come for the recipes, stay for the essential women’s history. As delightful and restoring as a freshly mixed spritz.”
― Mallory O’Meara, James Beard Award–winning author of Girly Drinks

Meet the hostesses who have shaped cocktail history, and learn how to make the drinks they loved.

Throughout American history, women have helped propel what we know as classic cocktails―the Martini, the Manhattan, the Old-Fashioned, and more―into popular culture. But, often excluded from private clubs, women exercised this influence from the home, in their cocktail parlors. In The Cocktail Parlor: How Women Brought the Cocktail Home (Countryman Press/WW Norton, April 2024), Dr. Nicola Nice, sociologist and spirits entrepreneur, gives women their long-overdue spotlight in cocktail history and shows how they still impact cocktail culture today. Robert Simonson provides the Foreword.

Journeying through the decades, this book profiles a diverse array of influential hostesses. With each historic era comes iconic recipes, featuring a total of 40 main cocktails and more than 100 variations that readers can make at home. Whether its happy hour punch a la Martha Washington or a Harlem Renaissance–inspired Green Skirt, readers will find that many of the ingredients and drinks they’re familiar with today wouldn’t be here without the hostesses who served them first.

40 line illustrations, 40 Recipes for timeless drinks

Dr. Nicola Nice is a sociologist, brand strategist, and founder of the Pomp & Whimsy gin company. Nicola has worked in spirits innovation for over a decade. She has been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, and more. She lives in Westchester County, New York.

BIG REACTORS, Claire Lerner MSW

Licensed clinical social worker and author of Why is My Child in Charge Lerner details the key traits of highly sensitive children (HSCs), the science behind the temperament traits, and shows parents how to

develop the tools to support their child’s strengths while also helping them learn to manage their emotions and reactions effectively. (Rowman & Littlefield, World English, Fall 2024)

MANIPULATED, Theresa Payton–NOW IN PAPERBACK!

In Manipulated: Inside the Cyberwar to Hijack Elections and Distort the Truth, cybersecurity expert Theresa Payton tells battlefront stories from the global war being conducted through clicks, swipes, internet access, technical backdoors and massive espionage schemes. She investigates the cyberwarriors who are planning tomorrow’s attacks, weaving a fascinating tale of Artificial Intelligent mutations carrying out attacks without human intervention, “deepfake” videos that look real to the naked eye, and chatbots that beget other chatbots. Finally, Payton offers readers telltale signs that their most fundamental beliefs are being meddled with and actions they can take or demand that corporations and elected officials must take before it is too late.

The updated paperback edition (Rowman & Littlefield, March 2024), including new information on real world cases of AI, chatgpt, tiktok, and all the latest and greatest exploits of manipulation campaigns, will leave readers both captivated and chilled to the bone.

Theresa Payton is the Chief Advisor and CEO of Fortalice®, LLC, and former White House Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Executive Office of the President (EOP) from 2006-2008. She was the first woman to hold this position, and currently holds a Top Secret Clearance. Theresa currently delivers security, risk, and fraud consulting services to private and public organizations. In addition to working with key clients in the private and public sector, Theresa is also Emeritus Faculty for the Security Executive Council and hosts a weekly segment on Charlotte, North Carolina’s WBTV called “Protecting Your Cyberturf” targeted at helping viewers stay safer online. Theresa started her career in banking in 1990 and was in the industry until 2006. She was named one of the top 25 “Most Influential People in Security” for 2010 by Security Magazine for her tireless efforts.

LET’S TALK ABOUT MONEY, Terry Gaspard MSW, LICSW

A guide for couples and partners, offering guidance on how to navigate the emotional side of a hot-button issue and providing tools to facilitate low-conflict conversations, resolve differences and reach financial intimacy. Gaspard is a licensed therapist and author of Daughters of Divorce and The Remarriage Manual and a frequent contributor to The Gottman Relationship Blog, Patheos.com, marriage.com, Huffington Post, TheGoodMenProject.com, DivorcedMoms.com, and DivorceMagazine.com. (Rowman & Littlefield, World English, Fall 2025)

A completely revised and updated values-based guide full of practical tools and advice that students need to navigate the first year of college and get the most out of their experience.
In the twelve years since its initial publication, The Freshman Survival Guide has helped tens of thousands of first year students make a successful transition to college life. However, much has changed on campuses. Culture changes, the ubiquity of social media, and the arrival of “hybrid” or remote learning have all added new layers of complexity to the leap from high school to college. The Freshman Survival Guide‘s newest updated edition (Center Street/Hachette, March 2024) features new research on issues such as mental health, sexual

assault, and finding balance. It also features expanded sections on:

gender and race relations on campus,
online learning,
dating,
and money management

Of the approximately 2.5 million college freshmen each year, one in three won’t make it to sophomore year. Combining relatable and relevant stories from hundreds of college students and insightful interviews with professors, deans, and other campus and community leaders, The Freshman Survival Guide focuses on how incoming first-year students can prepare themselves for the biggest change they’ve encountered in their lives: heading off to college.

Nora Bradbury-Haehl has worked with teens and twentysomethings in colleges, churches, camps, and leadership programs for more than twenty-five years, building caring supportive communities for and with young people, and walking with them through the joys and challenges of young adulthood. She writes as a mentor and guide for facing some of life’s most trying times. She’s the author of The Twentysomething Handbook—Everything You Actually Need to Know About Real Life. She’s written for Saint Mary’s Press, BustedHalo.com, Angelus.com, Connection magazine, and Liturgy Training Publications.
Bill McGarvey–an award-winning writer and producer–is the former editor-in-chief of the BustedHalo.com, where The Freshman Survival Guide first appeared. He has written and commented extensively on topics of culture, politics and religion for the New York Times, Washington Post, New York Daily News, The Nation, NPR, BBC, SiriusXM, Salon, Democracy Now, Vatican News, Commonweal, Time Out New York, The Tablet (London) and Factual (Spain).

ARISTOTLE: The Master of Those Who Know, Philip Freeman

The life and legacy of the brilliant philosopher and wanderer, focusing on the man and his world, as well as his ideas; drawing on ancient sources and modern scholarship. From the author of Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar. (Ancient Lives, Yale University Press, World Rights, 2026)

BIG TIME, Ben H. Winters

In this “virtuoso,” “jaw-dropping” and “stellar technological thriller” (Publishers Weekly, Starred Review), a mother engulfed by her own mid-life crisis stumbles upon a dark conspiracy to harvest and sell people’s time.

What if time could be taken from us—the minutes, the hours, the years of our lives, extracted like organs taken for transplant? What would it mean for the world? And what would it do to the person from whom it’s taken?

Grace Berney is a mid-level bureaucrat in the Food and Drug Administration, a woman who once brimmed with purpose but somehow turned into a middle-aged single mom with a dull government job and a melancholy sense that life has passed her by. Until the night a strange photo comes across her desk, of a young woman in a hospital bed who has been subjected to a mysterious procedure. Against orders and against common sense, Grace sets out to bring the girl to safety, and finds herself risking her job, her future, and her life on whether she can find the missing girl before an obsessive and violent mercenary who’s also looking. Big Time is a fast-paced thriller and a metaphysical mystery about the very nature of our lives.

Reviews:

“Big Time is a wild and wonderful trip, a kaleidoscope of mind-bending science, metaphysics, and good old-fashioned thrills. And most engaging of all are the characters Ben Winters creates: a hugely appealing Everywoman sleuth, a young woman struggling with a harrowing dilemma, and one of the scariest antagonists in recent memory.” ―Lou Berney, author of the New York Times-bestselling NOVEMBER ROAD

“Ben Winters is a genre alchemist – the kind of writer who blends and weaves the preconceived ideas of story to create something wholly new and riveting, and Big Time is no exception. A brilliant thriller that also dances between the raindrops of reality and time itself, Winters continues to keep readers on their toes, in the best way possible. I’m so glad this book exists.”―Alex Segura, bestselling author of SECRET IDENTITY

“An exciting, thought-provoking, time-bending, and ultimately mind-blowing tale filled with the wonder, whimsy, and weirdness that make Ben H. Winters one of our most imaginative voices.”―Thomas Mullen, author of BLIND SPOTS

“Big Time is a propulsive mix of big ideas, expert plotting, and deep character work—intertwined in the kind of way that only Ben Winters can do. This is a ‘clear your calendar first’ kind of book.”―Rob Hart, author of THE PARADOX HOTEL and THE WAREHOUSE

“Winters, author of the stunning Last Policeman trilogy and the mind-bending The Quiet Boy (2021), doles out another heaping serving of metaphysics. . . Winters asks us to open ourselves to the impossible by following real, relatable characters. Another strong, thought-provoking novel from a writer who gets better with every book.”―Booklist

“Winters (The Quiet Boy) is an expert at gripping adventures that invite readers to ponder big existential questions. Here he explores the balance between scientific advancement and ethics, a timely theme. . . A fast-paced and thought-provoking speculative thriller with well-drawn and relatable characters.”―Portia Kapraun, Library Journal

“Winters plays with readers’ expectations like a virtuoso in this stellar technological thriller. . . jaw-dropping plot twists are always grounded in pitch-perfect depictions of ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events. Blake Crouch fans will be in heaven.”―Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW

About the Author: Ben H. Winters is the New York Times bestselling author of The Quiet Boy, Underground Airlines, Golden State, and the Last Policeman trilogy. His books have won the Edgar Award, the Philip K. Dick award, the Sidewise Award, and France’s Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire. Ben also writes for television, and lives in Los Angeles with his family.

LIGAMENTS, Roy A. Meals MD

Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at UCLA and author of BONES and MUSCLE sheds light on a body system of fibrous connective tissues that quite literally holds us together. Ligaments attach bone to

bone, providing structure, support and stability. (World English, Johns Hopkins University Press, Spring 2026)

RECLAIMING BODY TRUST: Break Free from a Culture of Body Perfection, Disordered Eating, and Other Traumas, Hilary Kinavey & Dana Sturtevant

Now in paperback from Tarcher Perigee. A holistic and powerful framework for accepting and liberating

our bodies, and ourselves.