So You Want To Be A Magician by Linda Soules is a charming and surprisingly thoughtful look at a profession built on secrets, timing, and wonder. It takes a subject that many children already find exciting and shows what truly lives behind the curtain: practice, psychology, storytelling, patience, and respect for the audience. The result is a colorful nonfiction guide that feels both entertaining and quietly meaningful.
This book details one country’s brilliantly executed plan for global domination, meant to successfully usurp another’s hegemonic status before their very eyes as they willfully hand over the keys to their success to the agents of their demise, none the wiser to their fatal mistake.
There are books that try to tame difficult emotions by softening them, and then there are books like What If Anger Is the Answer?, which walks straight toward the fire and asks what it might be good for. Michael LeBlanc’s memoir-meets-leadership guide is not a simple defense of rage, nor is it an easy self-help manual about calming down. It is a sharp, personal, and often funny examination of anger as a force that can destroy a person when left wild, but also shape courage, discipline, loyalty, and moral seriousness when guided well.
Fire Craft: Art, Body, and World Among Glassblowers by Erin E. O’Connor is not a casual book about glassblowing. It is part ethnography, part memoir, part theory, and part love letter to the strange, exhausting, seductive world of the hotshop.
What does it take to challenge over a hundred years of scientific consensus, from Einstein to Hawking to Hubble, a pair of open eyes and a strong commitment to what is visible?
From Puerto Rico to New York: Fragments from a Life of Service is the memoir of Manuel Cabranes, one of the leading Puerto Rican public servants of the 20th century.
Most business books promise a lot and deliver a framework you forget by the time. This one is different, and I say that having read enough of them to be genuinely sceptical going in.
In a world that often prizes speed, automation, and digital convenience, books about craft remind us of something deeply…
Books about mental health often focus on symptoms, treatment, or personal stories. What’s Normal takes a very different route. William W. Hedrick, M.D. approaches the subject by asking a more foundational question: what does it actually mean for an emotional response to be normal? From that point onward, the book becomes a full-scale argument against what the author sees as major flaws in modern psychiatric thinking. Rather than accepting standard diagnostic models as they are, Hedrick proposes his own framework for understanding emotions, emotional illness, and the difference between feelings that fit a situation and feelings that do not.
Finding your voice is often easier said than done, especially in a world that constantly pushes people toward approval, silence, and self-doubt. In The Permission Mission: Reclaiming the Power to Trust Your Own Voice, Dr. Cindy McGovern explores that struggle with clarity, compassion, and a highly accessible style, offering readers a thoughtful look at self-trust, identity, and the courage it takes to live more honestly.
