When most people think about street addresses, if they think of them at all, it is in their capacity to ensure that the postman can deliver mail or a traveler won't get lost. But street addresses were not invented to help you find your way; they were created to find you. In many parts of the world, your address can reveal your race and class, causing them to be a shorthand for snobbery or discrimination. Filled with fascinating people and histories, The Address Book illuminates the complex and sometimes hidden stories behind street names and their power to name, to hide, to decide who counts, who doesn't - and why.

Spoken-word poet Mans addresses a variety of timely and poignant topics in this excellent collection. Black Girl, Call Home is a love letter to the wandering black girl and a vital companion to any woman on a journey to find truth, belonging, and healing. Mans uses poetry to bring change to the world with positive agitation and hopes to prompt dialogue where there is normally fear. She delves into heartbreak, community, family, race, queer identity, sexual violence, feminism, and celebrity (including the blistering “Footnotes for Kanye West” and an astounding elegy for Whitney Houston), Mans' poems are startling and unforgettable.

The art of the con has a long and venerable tradition, and its female practitioners are some of the best-- or worst. Telfer introduces us to a host of lady swindlers whose scams ranged from the outrageous to the deadly. Among them: In 1700s Paris, Jeanne de Saint-Rémy scammed the royal jewelers out of a necklace made from six hundred and forty-seven diamonds by pretending she was best friends with Queen Marie Antoinette. Cassie Chadwick got banks to loan her upwards of $40,000 by telling people she was Andrew Carnegie's illegitimate daughter. And the scams continue....

Ana Victoria Calderon - Simple step-by-step techniques for painting exciting and colourful motifs by combining watercolour with other user-friendly materials. Whether you're new to the medium or are looking to add new techniques to your watercolour practice, this series is perfect for all skill levels, and takes a fun, practical approach to learning about and working with paints and other art mediums to create beautiful DIY projects and crafts.

Thought leader, racial justice educator, and sought-after spiritual activist Rachel Ricketts offers mindful and practical steps for all humans to dismantle white supremacy on a personal and collective level. Includes culturally informed, secular spiritual exercises, such as guided meditations, transformative breathwork, and journaling prompts

Sex trafficking. Forced labor. Gaslighting. Berman explores the shocking practices of NXIVM, a cult run by Keith Raniere and many enablers. She details its rise as a personal development company, its ability to evade prosecution for decades, and the investigation that finally revealed its dark secrets to the world.

NY Times best-selling self-help author and CBS Sunday Morning science and tech correspondent, David Pogue offers us sensible, researched advice for how we should start to ready ourselves for climate chaos in the years ahead. What to grow and eat, how to build and to insure, where to invest, how to prepare your children and pets, and even where to consider relocating when the time comes. Included are tips for managing your anxiety, as well as action plans for riding out every climate catastrophe, from superstorms and wildfires to ticks and epidemics.

Called "such a sad, tough story, but finally so life-affirming, filled with spirit and love" by Anne Lamott, this is a raw and intensely affecting memoir by a young priest about loss of a child, its grief and its aftermath, and the hard-won joy that can follow.

The Dutch people are some of the happiest in the world. Their secret? They are masters of niksen, or the art of doing nothing. Niksen is not a form of meditation, or is it a state of laziness or boredom. To niks is to make a conscious choice to sit back, let go, and do nothing at all. Mecking shows readers how to take a break from all the busyness-- with heartfelt permission to do nothing.

Have you ever wondered how to capture a swarm of bees? Predict the weather by the clouds? And just how do you darn a pair of socks, anyway? With dozens of useful and intriguing visual tutorials, you can learn how to carve a turkey, create a butterfly garden, set up a dog agility course, keep a nature sketchbook, navigate by the stars, and more. Whether you plan to "do it yourself" or just love reading about how things are done, this rich compendium will educate, fascinate, spark conversation, and inspire new hobbies and experiences.

Fady Joudah - From Fady Joudah, comes an elegant collection of poems that shifts deftly between the microscope, the telescope, and the horoscope. A collection born of polyphony and the rhythms of our cosmos--intimate in its stakes, celestial in its dreams. Teeming with life but tinged with a sublime proximity to death, this is a collection that flows "between nuance and essentialization," from this acclaimed poet.

A landmark reference guide to the LGBTQIA+ community's contributions to the English language--an intersectional, inclusive, playfully illustrated glossary featuring more than 800 terms and fabulous phrases created by and for queer culture.