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There’s a global resurgence of interest in psychedelics, but there has not been a comprehensive, reliable book that combines contemporary science, ancient wisdom, and practical guidance for using these mysterious, magical molecules. Until now.

Liberty: 150 Years Dedicated to Art, Culture, and Design: 2025 marks 150 years of Liberty, a milestone celebration of our cutting-edge legacy in design, craftsmanship, and creativity. Join us as we honor the artists, designers, and makers who have shaped Liberty’s story, alongside those driving today’s artistic movement.

Three writers share intimate portraits of caring for – or stepping away from – relatives whose mental illness and dysfunction deeply impacted their lives. They reflect on research, reportage, and the profound insights they each took from traumatic family stories, offering pathways toward empowerment, understanding, and self-care.

Come celebrate the dual launch for Galloway’s Gospel by Sam Rebelein and Acquired Taste by Clay McLeod Chapman at Powerhouse Arena!

Seriously Entertaining — the critically-acclaimed literary cabaret series produced by House of SpeakEasy — is coming to powerHouse Books for a special show celebrating A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker: 1925-2025. Join us to hear original storytelling from four poets featured in the anthology, including Billy Collins and Monica Youn, preceded by a showcase of student poets from House of SpeakEasy’s SpeakTogether program with the Williamsburg High School of Arts and Technology. 

For two best friends desperate to escape their dead-end town, a viral online persona becomes a dangerous game of control in a twisting psychological thriller about class, power, and identity.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

After a year of self-imposed exile, a young writer attends a New Year’s Eve party in hopes of reconnecting with old classmates in a blackly humorous tale set on a single snowy night.

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

From the “talented and impassioned writer” (San Francisco Chronicle) of How to Kill a City, a riveting journey that combines Drug Use for Grown-Ups with How to Do Nothing, as it explores our national mental health and drug use crises while also searching for answers as to how we can find a path to collective healing.

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.

How carbon dioxide made planet Earth, shaped human history, and now holds our future in the balance

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