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A memoir of sex, angst, and rocks, Turn to Stone chronicles one woman’s ascent—on walls of stone and within herself—as she faces her demons and finds freedom and power in the raw and wild adventure of rock climbing.

Spanning 45 years of Jamel Shabazz’s photography in Prospect Park, this gorgeous and meditative volume captures the heart and soul of Brooklyn through one of its most cherished spaces.

A darkly comic novel set on the lower slopes of the Los Angeles literary world.

From the author of The Ayatollah Begs to Differ comes a globe-spanning memoir of identity, exile, and reinvention.

The tabloids wish they could give you gossip this jaw droppingly juicy…

The untold story of OC punk—the loud, rebellious force behind the ‘90s explosion of the Orange County music scene, featuring stories about legendary bands like Social Distortion, The Offspring, No Doubt, Sublime, The Adolescents, The Vandals, and many more

If you’ve ever waited tables, cried in a dive bar, danced in weird costumes in the street, tried to pay rent in drink tickets, or been in love with a city that might not love you back, this is your book.

For two decades, Cas Holman has been designing objects and spaces for play and exploring the role of play in design, work, and our culture. As a design professor, consultant, and play expert, she has worked with companies like Nike, Google, Disney Imagineering, and LEGO to help them utilize the power of play to bring about phenomenal workplace shifts. She has worked to design and bring play spaces to communities at the border of Mexico and Texas, has created a custom play feature (Rigamajig) for the High Line Park in New York City, designed groundbreaking toys, and so much more. She knows the power of play and sees its benefits in the lives around her every day.

Poppy State is a love letter to California and a story of resilience and reclamation through a relationship with plants, memory, myth, and indigenous knowledge.

A poignant coming-of-age story with the sensitivity and haunting power of What Belongs to You and Swimming in the Dark, about a young boy wrestling with his sexuality as war breaks out in modern Ukraine.

Come celebrate Halloween a week early in a first of its kind horror extravaganza with TWELVE of your favorite horror authors at Powerhouse Arena! Friday, October 24, 6-10 pm. No talks or readings, just a celebration of this spooky wonderful community and a party for the ages!

A breathtaking new book from the #1 bestselling author of Humans of New York and one of the great storytellers of our time—Dear New York is a love letter to the streets, stories, and souls that define the heart of the city and its people.

The winner of the 2018 Prix Médicis, Idiocy is an incisive condemnation of violence and colonialism, and a bracing, hallucinatory late masterpiece from a writer hailed by Edmund White as “one of the few geniuses of our day.”

A revelatory biography of the Jewish expressionist painter that corrects the myths surrounding his work and proves his importance to the contemporary art world

A timely and transformative new framework for success from a sought-after strategist, speaker, and author

An infectiously edifying, not-so-saintly self-help book that dives into the wild, wise, and unconventional lives of 16th- and 17th-century nuns, offering advice for our modern age and proving one thing: no matter the century, nuns know best.

Brad Fox takes us on a wild exploration of plants and people, imagination and matter, over an unexpected year-long waylay in the high jungle of northeastern Peru.

From the award-winning author of a “battle-cry of a book” (The Guardian) Rage Becomes Her, comes a fearless and timely manifesto for identifying and rejecting male supremacy in our daily lives.

Stealing the Future is the first book to tell the true and full story of Sam Bankman-Fried and his historic crimes. It chronicles the $11 billion FTX fraud with the detail and nuance of a financial fraud expert and cryptocurrency insider – but unlike any book before it, it also traces the ideas that enabled the crime. “Effective Altruism” and related tendencies, such as longtermism and transhumanism, remain dangerously influential in today’s Silicon Valley. Despite Bankman-Fried’s pose as a cuddly liberal philanthropist, they are now center stage in the global rise of the far right, and also lie at the heart of OpenAI, the tech darling that took FTX’s place as the face of the future.

When John Prine died suddenly of COVID in April 2020, that unfinished memoir evolved into an intimate narrative of the artist’s final years. Tom Piazza offers fans an unforgettable portrait of the beloved musician in his late glory–as a boyish cut-up, an epic raconteur, a great American poet, and most importantly, the good friend his fans have always imagined.

Out of Gaza tells the story of Dima Mansour, a young Palestinian who suffers hardship growing up in Jordan and Gaza during the Gaza War of 2014, later escaping to be with the man she loves in Belgium, where she is held in a detention center for illegal immigrants. Her harrowing story is told by Katharina Galor, an Israeli Jewish scholar who forms a close and unexpected friendship with Mansour. Despite the profound asymmetry that defines the geopolitical context of their lives—one marked by Palestinian loss and exile, the other by Jewish trauma and persecution—their bond uncovers surprising parallels in their shared experiences of displacement and survival.

A sweeping exploration of the Arctic—and how it’s being transformed by climate change—from National Geographic writer Neil Shea

In the tradition of Matthew Desmond’s Evicted, a longtime housing activist presents a vivid and myth-breaking account of why homelessness endures in contemporary America…

27 personal histories of immigrant restaurant workers in New York City whose stories of persistence, hope, and endurance show how vital they are to our country

Discover the delicious flavors of plant-based Italian cooking with more than 100 vegan recipes inspired by classic Italian dishes, from the owner and chef of Pura Vita

The story of an Indigenous girl’s kidnapping during a colonial expedition intertwines with a young woman’s modern-day search for identity and ancestral truths.